Episode 129: Form I French Immersion Lesson

Charlotte Mason began foreign language study the first year of school and this podcast episode is a demonstration of two kinds of lessons in the First Form (first through third grade). Becca Buslovich steps in as the teacher in this immersion lesson, one who is not a native speaker or expert in French herself, to encourage parents who have little or no proficiency to equip themselves to teach their children in foreign language instruction.

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Notes of Lessons (1)

Subject: French (Link to Images used in Lesson here)
Form: I     Time: 10 minutes

OBJECTS:

I. To teach three new vocabulary words.
II. To increase the children’s ability to understand the meaning of the French language.
III. To help the children better pronounce French words.

LESSON:

Step I–Using a picture and gestures teach each new word, having children repeat the word in French.
Step II–Use the new word in a sentence, using gestures to insinuate meaning.
Step III–Have the children repeat the phrase.
Step IV–Have children point to the correct picture as teacher says the word or phrase.

Notes of Lessons (2)

Subject: French (Link to Images used in Lesson here)
Form: IA     Time: 10 minutes

OBJECTS:

I. To use a story and narration to increase the children’s understanding of French.
II. To increase the children’s ability to listen to longer passages in French.

LESSON:

Step I–Using a picture and gestures read the story, phrase by phrase.
Step II–Ask the children to narrate the French phrase in English.
Step III–Have the children repeat the phrase in French.

Hachette’s First Illustrated Primer

Masons Living Languages (Becca’s CM Foreign Language site full of resources)

Pictures used in the lessons can be accessed here

Cherrydale Press (Gouin Series)

Search “Notes of Lessons” in this volume of the Parents’ Review to see examples of HOE Teachers’ Lessons

Picture Study Portfolios from Simply Charlotte Mason

10 thoughts on “Episode 129: Form I French Immersion Lesson”

    2. Jamie

      The closest thing I’ve been able to find is this reader, which set up like McGuffey’s–except with English on one page and Spanish on the other. It isn’t as heavily illustrated as the Hachette one, but I haven’t been able to find anything else for Spanish:

      https://archive.org/details/libroprimerodel00bailgoog

      Still looking it over and trying to think about how best to use it.

  3. Reba

    Wow, in the words of Gru, “Light-bulb” this was soo soo good. I feel like I can take on foreign language now. Will the rest of the pictures for the lessons in Hachette’s book be available online anywhere? Also I noticed in the new schedule templates that the ADE just released that it said “lesson plans coming soon”. How soon are we talking and will I need to look out for them here or on the Mason Living Languages blog? Y’all are such a blessing, I know you will never know the extent of all y’all have done here on earth, but I assure you your reward in heaven will prove your worth to us.

    1. Becca

      You can find Hachette’s First Illustrated Primer on-line for free and I believe someone has reprinted it though I’m not sure of the quality.

      I do not have a solid date for lesson plans as so much of it depends on waiting for my wonderful native speakers to complete recordings amidst their busy schedules! If you join the email list on my website, or like the Facebook page, you will certainly know when they’re ready!

  4. Chelsea

    I don’t speak French at all- planning on using Spanish- so I found the podcast hard to follow, but the part I got was informative. My question is, when teaching new vocabulary words, do you primarily do nouns and save verbs for the sentences? If not- if verbs may be taught for vocabulary- do you teach the infinitive, or something else?

    1. Becca

      So sorry you couldn’t follow along as well as I had hoped even if you didn’t speak French!

      In vocabulary lessons you emphasize the nouns in context of a sentence. The focus of the verb in the infinitive is studied more in the Gouin series lesson though you certainly my could do more work with the verbs (since they’re the key to the sentence) if you’re not doing the Gouin series! I hope that helps!

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