French

Students will listen to, and read the lyrics of, the song L’amour est un oiseau rebelle by Georges Bizet as an introduction to the theme “love/relationships”. Then, they will watch the video clip and analyze the lyrics of the song Carmen by Stromae, which is directly inspired by the previous song. Students will be able to analyze the effects of the use of lexical fields, borrowings, poetic devices, grammatical tools, music and visuals on a written text. They will make inferences about the intertextuality between the two texts. Students will be able to apply what they learned in their own tweets in the target language to defend a cause or denounce an issue they care about.

Texts, Genres & Practices

• Reading songs as poetry and recognizing stylistic devices typical of the genre.
• Analyzing how different elements of a song (sounds, visual, etc.) add meaning to/reinforce the meaning of the written text.
• Reflecting on intertextuality and what it brings to a text.
• Writing tweets to support a cause/denounce an issue. Being impactful in few words.

Cultural Knowledge & Perspectives

• Connecting texts to social practices and question one’s own social (media) practices.
• Reflecting on the cultural and social values behind the use of foreign words.
• Reflecting on appropriate and relevant usage of borrowings.
• Capitalizing on the affordances of social media practices.

Language Use & Language Play

• Identifying lexical fields and poetic devices and reflecting on their effect.
• Analyzing the use of tense and pronouns in a warning message.
• Examining and reflecting on the use of borrowings in a text.
• Exploring how grammar, lexicon, and sound can be combined to convey meaning effectively.