Language Teacher Toolkit: Steve Smith's blog

This post is based on a lesson plan from my book 50 Lesson Plans for French Teachers: Step by Step (available from Amazon). One of the challenges with near beginners is finding content which is both interesting for its content and accessible from a linguistic point of view. For students to be able to process the language they hear or see, the language needs to be highly comprehensible, but at this level authentic material is usually too hard to process. The thinking behind this parallel reading lesson plan, therefore, is to provide enough scaffolding to make a harder text teachable and useful. This lesson will introduce new language, use a range of skills and teach some general knowledge about an animal most of us like. First, take a look at the main resource below about dolphins. Parallel reading: dolphins Les dauphins Les dauphins sont des mammifères marins qui sont liés aux baleines et aux marsouins. Un mammifère marin vit dans l'eau. Les dauphins se trouvent partout dans les ...