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Lessons > LLDQ

What’s in a Name?

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Lesson Title: What’s in a Name?
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: C’est tout un poème
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Grammar Play, LLDQ

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Text Title: C’est tout un poème
Text Language: French
Text Author: Luks, Joanna
Genre: Poetry
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: What’s in a Name?
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Interpreting a writer’s mental images from grammatical metaphors and context. (An introduction to semiosis).
Writing: Expressing mental imagery in word play.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Detecting nouns used as adjectives.
Listening: Noticing rhyme schemes for sound-spelling relationships.
Writing: Using nouns as adjectives to characterize someone. / Creating a rhyme scheme.
FLLITE Form: Grammar Play, LLDQ

Comment?!

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Lesson Title: Comment?! [ What?! ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: L’accent grave
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Sound Play, Word Play

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Text Title: L’accent grave
Text Language: French
Text Author: Prévert, Jacques
Genre: Narratives
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Comment?! [ What?! ]
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Recognizing Platonic Forms. / Understanding the French notion of individualisme. / Evaluating worldview based on mental imagery of words.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Using decoding strategies for word forms.
Listening: Hesitation techniques.
Writing: Using play script conventions. / Generating a faux pas; clarifying a misunderstanding using negotiating language. / Controlling register.
Speaking: Performing playscripts.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Sound Play, Word Play

Un portrait chinois

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Lesson Title: Un portrait chinois [ A Chinese Portrait ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: The Proust and Pivot personality questionnaires
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Perspective Play

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Text Title: The Proust and Pivot personality questionnaires
Text Language: French
Text Author: Proust, Marcel / Pivot, Bernard
Genre: Portraits and Biographies
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Un portrait chinois [ A Chinese Portrait ]
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: The use of Chinese portraits in 19th century English popular culture and 20th century American and French television media. / Examining question forms and content that reveal tastes and aspirations.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Utilizing decoding strategies for reading comprehension. / Assessing personality based on evidence found in answers to questions.
Writing: Using noun phrases/clauses as information questions and a variety of noun forms as answers. / Linking ideas with punctuation.
Visualization: Selecting an image for symbolic representation.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Perspective Play

Envie de voyager

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Lesson Title: Envie de voyager [ Wanderlust ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: The Wanderer (Voyages de rêve)
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Symbolic Play

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Text Title: The Wanderer (Voyages de rêve)
Text Language: French
Text Author: Anonymous
Genre: Personal Blogs and Journals
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Envie de voyager [ Wanderlust ]
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Comparing American and French students’ word associations for United States and France.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Finding metaphorical language in the text related to traveling and savouring.
Writing: Incorporating a metaphorical motif to enrich writing. Linking ideas with coordinating conjunctions; using mixed formatting: paragraph writing and telegraphic style.
Visualization: Including imagery to draw the reader’s attention.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Symbolic Play

Respect et verité

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Lesson Title: Respect et verité [ Respect and Truth ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Three self-portraits
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Perspective Play

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Text Title: Three self-portraits
Text Language: French
Text Author: High school students in France and Poland
Genre: Portraits and Biographies / Descriptions
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Respect et verité [ Respect and Truth ]
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Background information on the Enlightenment values of self respect and honesty.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Identifying emotionally charged words and sentence structures for balancing honesty with self-respect.
Writing: Applying softening techniques for describing someone with respectful accuracy. / Controlling length by avoiding repeated words and redundant information.
Visualization: Including a photograph of the portrayed subject for verifying accuracy of description.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Perspective Play

Un peu de hareng fumé

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Lesson Title: Un peu de hareng fumé [ A Little Smoked Herring ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Petite lettre à la dérive / Le Hareng saur and accompanying monolgue fumiste / Recipe for marinated smoked herring
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Pragmatic Play

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Text Title: Petite lettre à la dérive / Le Hareng saur and accompanying monolgue fumiste / Recipe for marinated smoked herring
Text Language: French
Text Author: Cocteau, Jean / Cros, Charles / Coquelin cadet
Genre: Poetry / Recipes
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Un peu de hareng fumé [ A Little Smoked Herring ]
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Expanding comprehension of a text through visual and oral readings. / Learning food-based idioms.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Identifying genre conventions for prescriptive texts. / Noun countability and noun phrase structures with invariable de.
Writing: Following recipe conventions. / Writing a prescriptive text for a chosen audience on when and how to appreciate the resulting dish.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Pragmatic Play

La Ville et le graffiti

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Lesson Title: La Ville et le graffiti [ The City and Graffiti ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Graffiti from May ‘68 / Graffiti calligraphié: El Seed
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Symbolic Play

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Text Title: Graffiti from May ‘68 / Graffiti calligraphié: El Seed
Text Language: French
Text Author: Anonymous / Melia, Lisa
Genre: Signage and Graffiti / Personal Blogs and Journals
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: La Ville et le graffiti [ The City and Graffiti ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Background information on May ‘68
Visualization: Creating a graffiti tag to illustrate an aphorism.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Contrasting uses of narrative present and passé composé / Introduction to prepositional systems in English and French.
Writing: Creating an aphorism using language structures to express oppositions / Turning an aphorism into a French tweet with texting abbreviations / Writing an explanation of the aphorism in present tense and including a bulleted list of past events with passé composé verbs and adverbial time expressions as illustration of what happened/what someone did.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Symbolic Play

Fêtes et souvenirs

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Lesson Title: Fêtes et souvenirs [ Holidays and Recollections ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Le père Noël
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, LLDQ

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Text Title: Le père Noël
Text Language: French
Text Author: Sand, George
Genre: Narratives / Essays
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Fêtes et souvenirs [ Holidays and Recollections ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Vocabulary associated with the term, “Father Christmas” / Catholicism past and present in France.
Writing: “Making strange” your own cultural practices.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading/Writing: Reminiscing about a childhood holiday using imparfait verbs for talking about the way things were or used to be and exploring cultural practices.
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, LLDQ

Sur le chemin du retour

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Lesson Title: Sur le chemin du retour [ Homeward Bound ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Excerpts from Chronique de la dérive douce
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, LLDQ

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Text Title: Excerpts from Chronique de la dérive douce
Text Language: French
Text Author: Laferrière, Dany
Genre: Narratives
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Sur le chemin du retour [ Homeward Bound ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Being a political refugee from Haiti in Canada in 1976.
Listening: Watching a 1988 Canadian television show, Êtes-vous raciste? and listening to Canadian French pronunciation.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Noticing the structuring of prose poems.
Writing: Employing genre conventions for writing a chronicle in prose poetry.
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, LLDQ

La Technologie composée et imparfaite

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Lesson Title: La Technologie composée et imparfaite [ Composed and Imperfect Technology ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Test pour accro d’internet / Le crash
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Grammar Play, LLDQ

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Text

Text Title: Test pour accro d’internet / Le crash
Text Language: French
Text Author: Anonymous / Anonymous
Genre: Narratives
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: La Technologie composée et imparfaite [ Composed and Imperfect Technology ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading/ Writing: French internet vocabulary
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Finding illogical sequencing of events in a dream text.
Writing: Using passé composé and imparfait verbs with illogical (dreamlike) sequencing.
FLLITE Form: Grammar Play, LLDQ

Il était une fois

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Lesson Title: Il était une fois [ Once Upon a Time ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Text Title: Le Petit Chaperon rouge
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, LLDQ

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Text Title: Le Petit Chaperon rouge
Text Language: French
Text Author: Perrault, Charles
Genre: Narratives
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Il était une fois [ Once Upon a Time ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Using historical facts to decode the values of an earlier period; comparing a contemporary filmed version to the text to improve comprehension. / Thinking about significant events in your life and comparing your answers to those of French students.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Recognizing verbs in passé simple. / Identifying language and conventions used in fairy tales.
Writing: A fractured fairy tale by subverting fairy tale conventions. / Using impersonal expressions with “il”.
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, LLDQ

Mais je digresse

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Lesson Title: Mais je digresse [ But I digress ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English, French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Text Title: Ambiguïtés
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Symbolic Play

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Text

Text Title: Ambiguïtés
Text Language: French
Text Author: Gomarin, Françoise
Genre: Personal Blogs and Journals
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Mais je digresse [ But I digress ]
Instructional Language: English, French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: The concept of “flâner.” / Understanding uses of associative or digressive thinking and the various effects it can have on the reader.
Speaking: Examining syllable structuring in French to improve pronunciation when reading out loud.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Finding digressions in a text.
Writing: Prewriting questions to guide content development. /  Incorporating digressions in written musings to reflect how you think and speak. / Using parallelisms as a stylistic technique for enhancing rhythm and flow.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Symbolic Play

Le Monde du travail

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Lesson Title: Le Monde du travail [ The Work World ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Text Title: Retour à la terre / Petit cours de politique
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, LLDQ

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Text

Text Title: Retour à la terre / Petit cours de politique
Text Language: French
Text Author: Anonymous
Genre: Narratives
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Le Monde du travail [ The Work World ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Geert Hofstede’s model for a cultural dimensions theory. / Reflecting on cultural values and their impact on the work world. / Learning some potentially embarrassing false cognates!
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Recognizing cultural stereotypes in a text.
Writing: Using joke-telling conventions for writing a humorous anecdote about a cross-cultural misunderstanding in the workplace. / Using conditional and subjunctive verbs for nuancing meaning.
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, LLDQ

L’Amour (et la guerre)

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Lesson Title: L’Amour (et la guerre) [ Love (and War) ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Text Title: 6 september, 1939 / Excerpts from a WW II journal / Wartime correspondence
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Visual Play

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Text Title: 6 september, 1939 / Excerpts from a WW II journal / Wartime correspondence
Text Language: French
Text Author: Jourdan, Robert
Genre: Poetry / Personal Blogs and Journals / Emails, Letters, and Postcards
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: L’Amour (et la guerre) [ Love (and War) ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Background information on the Fall of France during World War II.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Decoding visual and textual symbolism used for getting past censors in wartime correspondence. / Noticing intertextual references.
Writing: Following strategies and conventions for writing a love letter.
Visualization: Selecting an image to convey love.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Visual Play

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