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| Title | Teaching Family and Community |
| Body | An FLTEACH subscriber posted the following question: I am currently student teaching in a ninth grade French 1 class at a high school. We have been doing a unit on "community" and what makes up the students' communities. We talked about school and the next topic is the family. Does anyone have any suggestions for creative or interesting ways to introduce the topic of family? Also, does anyone have any suggestions for follow-up activities with this topic? Agnew, L. Introducing the topic of family to a French 1 class. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 7 Nov. 2006). --- Replies included the following: In my Spanish classes to introduce the topic of family, I show the students pictures of families - we post them on the board (or I create an overhead of a family portrait) and I describe the words [She (pointing to grandma) is the mother of my mother]. Then I repeat, my "grandmother" is the mother of my mother. Then "Who is she? (pointing to grandma). Students respond "grandmother". I do this for all the family members. When I get to second year, we introduce in-laws, etc. for first year we stick to mom, dad, bro, sis, aunt, uncle...etc. Toward the end of the unit we do a family tree and label it with the various titles. Later on, I have the students make a photo album of their family members. They have to do at least one page per family member. The have to describe their parents, tell where they work, tell what they like to do, what they don't like to eat, their favorite things. etc. I use the photo album as a culminating activity for the year so I have the students include elements of almost everything they have learned in year one. Dames, K. Re: Introducing the topic of family to a French 1 class. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 7 Nov. 2006). --- I teach Spanish and have a poster I made of the Spanish royal family tree (with photos). perhaps you could use a famous french person's family tree? I stay away from real family trees due to the variety of situations that are out there.. I also use a cartoon family that the kids are familiar with to introduce vocab.. Walters, S. Re: Introducing the topic of family to a French 1 class. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 7 Nov. 2006). |
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