Understanding by Design Template
Unit 5A - D’accord 1
Stage 1 - Desired Results
Established Goals:
Students will be able to describe sports and other leisure activities and indicate how often they participate in a
particular activity. Additionally, students will be able to conjugate the verb faire and specific irregular -ir verbs in the
present tense.
1.1 Enduring Understandings 1.2 Essential Questions
Students will understand that . . . . ● How do people talk about sports and other
pastimes?
● Many activities that Americans enjoy are also ● What sports and leisure activities are most
common in France and French-speaking countries. common in the Francophone world?
In particular, soccer is very popular. ● Are there different ways to describe a similar
● The verbs faire and jouer are used often to action or activity?
describe sports and hobbies.
● The prepositions de and à may be needed to form
certain expressions.
● Faire does not follow regular verb conjugation
patterns.
● Il faut is not a conjugation of the verb faire.
● Certain -ir verbs do not follow the regular verb
conjugation patterns.
1.3 Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills
Students will know . . . . Students will be able to . . .
● New vocabulary words to describe sports and ● Write a letter describing what sports and pastimes
hobbies they like, and how often they do those activities.
● Adverbs expressing time ● Decipher conversations about hobbies.
● The verb faire, its conjugations, and idiomatic ● Interview their peers about their favorite hobbies.
expressions using it ● Complete sentences using verb conjugations
● Irregular -ir verbs
Stage 2 - Assessment Evidence
Performance Tasks: Other Evidence:
● Write a letter using the unit’s vocabulary and ● Unit quiz with listening comprehension activities,
grammar dictation activities, sentence completion activities,
● Conduct an interview using the unit’s vocabulary reading comprehension activities and free response
and grammar prompts.
● Formative assessments in the language lab
Stage 3 - Learning Plan
Adapted from Understanding by Design (p. 22), by G. Wiggins and J. McTighe, 2005, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
Copyright 2005 by ASCD.
Learning Activities:
● Verbal repetition
● Quizlet Live word-to-image matching game
● Pictionary-style activities
● Listening comprehension activities
● Reading comprehension activities
● Video interpretation with pre- and post-viewing activities
● Cultural text reading with pre- and post-reading activities
● Small group discussions
● Large group discussions
● Discovery activities
● PowerPoint presentations with exercises
● Video presentations with exercises
● Small scale performance tasks
● Peer reviewing
● Collaboration with classmates
Adapted from Understanding by Design (p. 22), by G. Wiggins and J. McTighe, 2005, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
Copyright 2005 by ASCD.
