ATL Communication: Preview and skim texts to build understanding

• Frans
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

ATL: Communication

How are your reading skills?

Complete the Google Form on the following slide to establish your reading skills at present... 

Be honest!

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Let's do this...

We're going to read a complex text in French, but in a very structured way... Follow these steps:

1. Skim the text for gist, and write an appropriate title.
   
2. Scan the text and highlight words you don't know. DO NOT LOOK THESE WORD UP - there's no need!
3. Scan the text again, and answer the questions on the following slides. Focus on words you know, images, context, and what's around the words you don't know in order to decipher the meaning. (See UNLOCK THE CODE)
   
4. Summarise the text in no more than 20 words! (remember a summary doesn't contain specific details - ask yourself, what would I tell my parents I read about in French today?)

Do the first question together as an example, getting the students to rephrase the vocabulary from the question in their answer. 

This encourages them to write in full sentences, and further work with the strategies. 

For example, with the question Que désigne aujourd'hui le terme "francophonie"? students can't figure out the meaning of désigne, but they know the rest of the sentence because of prior learning or cognates. They firstly have to translate what they do know into their best language, and then from there figure out the grammatical role of the word (here it's a verb). They then have to say the sentence to themselves, and figure out the meaning of the blank word based on the context. Get them to ask themselves: what would make most sense here??

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En quelle année et par qui a été inventé le mot "francophonie"?

Choisissez, parmi ces pays, son pays d'origine : la France, le Canada, les États-Unis, l'Inde, la Belgique, le Vietnam.

Choisissez, parmi ces professions, sa profession d'origine : architecte, ingénieur, médcon, géographe, historien.

Pourquoi le terme "francophonie" recommence-t-il à être utilisé à partir de 1960 ?

Que désigne aujourd'hui le terme "francophonie"?

Combien y a-t-il de francophones réels dans le monde ?

Donnez trois raisons pour lesquelles on parle le français dans le monde.

Citez un avantage qu'on peut avoir à parler le français.

Quelle est la définition de la Francophonie dans tes propres mots?

La Francophonie : une définition

La Francophonie est l’ensemble 

des personnes qui parlent français et 

 des pays où on parle français.