| Task’s description | |
| For their task 4, French Basic 1b students (A2) have to play roles. One student will be a police officer and one student will play a victim. The victim has to report that their animal has been stolen. The police officer has to fill in a form and draw a facial composite of the thief. | |
| Specific LOs (Learning Outcomes) and/or goals of the task. | |
| – Can interact with reasonable ease in structured situations and short conversations, provided the other person helps if necessary – Can ask and answer questions and exchange ideas and information – Can ask for and provide personal information – Can ask and answer questions about past activities – Can write short, simple formulaic notes – Can give a simple description or presentation of people as a short series of simple phrases and sentences linked into a list. | |
| Sequencing the task | |
| Before the task | |
| – Students have to watch a movie fragment (from Les Misérables) that shows a scene with animal theft. | |
| During the task | |
| – Division in pairs (one police officer and one victim): the students “victims” prepare their speech and then report the crime to the students “police officer” – The police officers will ask questions and fill in a form – The victims will tell their story (past tense!) and draw a facial composite. | |
| After the task | |
| – | |
| Additional comments | |
| Resource used: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDnf3Jb1p6jY9a88o8QYckU8mXrb2sbF1LsWYI0Rz9rXc_Tg/viewform?usp=sf_link and https://www.avatar-gratuit.com/#generateur | |
| *Note: If you want to add the original document with the task, please paste the link here: | |
| https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HoXKdDc8Pux2IFACppxv–384i-kZ1LW_y-9TKc1Flg/edit?usp=sharing |
Report a crime or déclaration d’un vol (French department)
- Video, Mostly in class, To remember (define, identify, label, recall, list...), Communicative competence and pragmatics, Pair work, CEFR Level, 15-30 min, A2, Online, Synchronous, Oral - interactional, Linguistic competence, When/Where, Written, Pictorial, Sociolinguistic competence, Description, Setting, Authentic / genuine, Video(-conferencing), Written, Information-gap, Digital component - Mode of communication, Interview, Original / educational, Goals, Narrative / narration / story-telling, Competences, Type of task, Input, Output, Role-play scenario, Type of participation / grouping, Time estimate
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