French as a Second Language

Technology Project

Francophones to Discover!

Teacher's Notes

Activity

The students will write (using email or the regular mail) to a francophone in Canada who is involved in the Arts, Sports, or Politics in order to get information about this person.

Learning Outcomes

The student will be required to:

1. identify and get to better know a francophone in Canada;
2. understand and select pertinent information in a written articles;
3. employ sentence structures and vocabulary in order to write a clear message and to ask questions.

Technological skills

The student will be able to:

1. send and receive email;
2. surf the Internet.

Learning Scenario

1. Students search the Internet to find the name and address (electronic and mailing) of a francophone in Canada who is involved in Sports, the Arts, or Politics.
2. Students fill out a short information file about the person they have selected.
3. Students identify something they would like to know about the person they selected and they write a question the receive the information they are looking for.
4. The students write a message to the francophone person in which they introduce themselves, indicate why they chose to study that person and ask one or two questions.
5. After having received an answer, the students write the new information in their information guide.

Criteria for Evaluation

The self evaluation may be completed in one of two ways:

Content of the written message:

1. Does the message contain the following elements:
2. a greeting;
3. have the students identified their school, city, and Province;
4. did the students indicate why they are writing;
5. one or more questions;
6. the students' names?

The form of the written message:

1. is the spelling correct;
2. are the sentence structures correct?

Extension activity

1. Each group can do a class presentation about the person they have chosen.
2. Students can put all their information forms together to make a poster, book or multimedia presentation.