Hunting for foreign words

Group: 4th ESO

Mª Esther Castro Busto

Objectives: To communicate effectively in French using the listening,

speaking, viewing, reading and writing modes. Communication.

To demonstrate a better understanding of their own other’s cultural heritage and identity. Citizen-ship.

To demonstrate preparedness for further learning, particularly in the context where French is used as a language. Personal development.

To work and learn purposefully, both independently and in groups. Cooperative work.

To solve problems individually and collaboratively. Problem solving.

To express their ideas and feelings using all the resources. Research and practice.

Topics:

French word in English language:

- Food

- Clothes

- Names of the shops and restaurants

- French family names

- Others Some history

Menu in a restaurant in Kells (Ireland)with some French dishes

Development:

Group work according to the following guidelines: Choice of a topic Work planning Information search Pooling and choice of the information that it will be used Preparation and presentation to the class Final product: Newspaper

Activities:

The activities would have two levels of difficulty depending on the language skills of our students and intended to deal with the diversity of capacities

In groups, students will make a research work in town looking for French names and words in restaurants, shops, clothes, menus, French dishes etc.. and taking photographs and collecting documents

A restaurant in St Stephen’s Green shopping centre (Dublin)

Restaurant in Dublin

In Dunnes store

Others groups will work of historical research, looking for historical characters and events involving France and Ireland Students will put all of this researches in a final product that will be a newspaper where there will be:

• Some news about, for instance, a new French restaurant ; the interview to the chef and the menus they are offering• News about a French fashion store and their fashion show• News about something happening in the past but introduced as a present event: “The Normans in Ireland”• Some interviews to historical characters: Antoine Nompar de Caumont (Officer in the battle of Boyne); William d’Orange (Dinastie Orange –

Nassau coming from French Burgundy) or James II (exiled in France after being deposed)

Antoine Nompar de Caumont

William III

James II

Dermot MacMurrough (Strongbow)

There will be some anachronisms in the newspaper, but it doesn’t matter because the final

target is to get the students to practice the language in all the levels and communicate

Thank you very much to the people who look at this work and especially those who have helped me to develop it. Mª Esther Castro Busto vertespoirbleumarine@gmail.com