Les Brasseries de Paris
Class: French 5/6 (Third Year)
Level: High Intermediate-Advanced
Materials: Student Task Sheet, Computer with WWW Access
Teacher: Ms. Huck
Aim:
Où mangeons-nous à Paris?
Students will be able to read ads for restaurants and answer written comprehension questions; learn advanced vocabulary related to food and restaurants; review the arrondissements and monuments of Paris; write an advertisement in French for their own restaurant.
Motivation:
- Ask students to name the different types of eating establishments in France.
- Elicit type of information they would find in a restaurant guide (i.e. le nom du restaurant, l'arrondissement, l'adresse, le numero de telephone)
Development:
Review vocabulary words about dining. Choral repetition; clarify meaning of unfamiliar terms.
Medial Summary:
What do you expect to find on this web page? What kind of food do you think will be on the menus?
Application:
Search for specific information on task sheet using:
www.blanc.net/fr
Summary:
Review answers on worksheet. Ask students to describe the photos of the brasseries. Which one was
their favorite? Which one was closest to the Tour Eiffel? L'Opéra?
Homework:
Using the ads we saw today, write your own restaurant ad for this guide. Include all the categories we saw.
Add this guide to your homepage.
Extension:
- Students could read each other's restaurant ads and orally compare them
- Students could create a list of questions based on all their guides to be used in other French classes at the school.
- Students could role-play in pairs a waiter and a customer interaction at a restaurant.