World Language Consensus Mapping Exemplar- Level 3

Please Note: This is an exemplar of what a consensus map for a level 3 target language could look like. Of course, the teachers of a target language may need to rearrange the sequence, add/delete items, and customize it to fit the needs of their target language and their students. We will continue to engage in conversations, reflection and revisions as we explore how to more clearly align and articulate our higher level language consensus maps.

World Language Consensus Mapping Exemplar- Level 3

7 units.

Plus review

Essential Question (s):

(culture aspect included)

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1. Vacation and travel

• Countries
• Continents
• Making travel preparations
• Hotel
• Train station
• Airport
• Customs
• If statements (conditional) review
• Review past tense
• Review future

• Identify countries on a map
• Ask about a vacation
• Say what they would do in different locations if they could
• Express necessity
• Ask about what has been done
• Get travel information
• Ask for information at a train station or airport
• Buy tickets and make a transaction
• Pay hotel bill

• Create a travel brochure and travel presentation to the class – convince them your trip is the best
• Blank maps – fill in designated countries and write sentences saying what they would do if they could go there.

1. The great outdoors

• Camping
• Nature
• Animals
• Activities
• Past tense review
• French: “être en train de” – in the process of
• The future
• Future of irregular verbs
• The verb to run

• Identify vocabulary
• Say what happened
• Describe circumstances
• Say what they were doing when something else happened
• Tell what they will do
• Wonder what will happen

• Verb-board races

• Write a story about a weekend camping trip

1. Entertainment

• Books
• Movies
• TV shows
• Music
• Relative pronouns
• Present participles
• Interrogative pronouns
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Review comparatives/ superlatives

• Identify genres and give examples of each
• Describe a book or movie
• Ask for and give information about media/ entertainment
• Ask about preferences
• Recommend or advise against something
• Give opinions and why

• Game show simulation speed games for genres (students give examples of genres on slips of paper – two come up at a time and race to identify the genre first)

• Written Book/movie review

1. The body and health

• Parts of the body
• Injuries
• Illnesses
• The doctor
• The pharmacy
• The subjunctive of regular and irregular verbs and when to use it
• The gym
• Exercise and exercising/eating well
• The conditional
• “if” statements

• Identify body parts
• Ask and tell how you feel
• Describe symptoms
• Give advice
• Complain about health
• Sympathize with someone and express concern

• Body drawings and label
• Round robin w/ illnesses assigned – express concern and give advice

• Giant body drawings
• Dialogue at doctor, pharmacy, or emergency room

• Professions and services
• Telephone and formal letter
• Future review
• The future perfect
• Present participles
• The verb to drive

• Identify professions and describe what they do and where they work
• Ask about future plans w/ work
• Ask about job descriptions
• Make polite requests
• Make a phone call
• Write a formal letter

• Simulate a professional phone conversation to get an interview
• Create a job announcement
• Reply to a job announcement in the form of a formal letter

• Legends
• Fairytales
• fables

• identify
• set the scene for a story
• continue and end a story

• students read a fairy tale in the target language, rewrite it in their own words, create an image-only power point, and then tell the story to the class with no notes

• Historical accounts from countries of language
• War vocabulary
• The past perfect
• Sequence of tenses in indirect discourse

• Relate a sequence of events in the past
• Tell what happened to someone else
• Describe the concept of colonization and the effects on language in countries

• French: La Bataille d’Algers