Empreintes 1.2 Les Ressemblances

Les Ressemblances is a French 3 CI curriculum unit from the Empreintes 1 French Curriculum sequence designed to build proficiency through visual storytelling and meaningful, comprehensible input. In this one‑to‑two‑week unit, students engage with a high‑interest commercial featuring a baby who resembles everyone in the family, providing a compelling context for discussing family resemblance, descriptions, and past events.

This proficiency-based French 3 curriculum unit uses a clip chat approach to support interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational communication. Students develop language in context as they describe people, make comparisons, and communicate about events using scaffolded listening, reading, speaking, and writing activities. While the unit naturally supports work with past‑time narration and descriptive structures, instruction remains firmly grounded in comprehensible input and communication rather than isolated grammar practice.

Les Ressemblances can be used as a stand-alone French 3 thematic unit or as part of the growing Empreintes 1 French curriculum sequence. The unit is designed for novice‑high to intermediate‑low learners and can easily be extended for more advanced students by adjusting question types and output expectations. 

What’s included

• Full 6-day lesson plan
• 9-day remote learning & sub plans
• Clip chat materials
• Instructional slideshow
• Photo story for additional comprehensible input
• Interpretive readings
• Cloze activities
• Duolingo podcast 
• Class survey and scavenger hunt
• Writing assessments

Grammatical Feature

In Les Ressemblances, students will continue to develop comparison and contrast vocabulary and will hone skills in both present and past narrative.

Why teachers love this unit

• High‑engagement, CI‑driven instruction using visual media
• Natural context for descriptive language and narration
• Flexible design that adapts to different proficiency levels
• Ready‑to‑use lessons that reduce planning time
• Strong alignment with proficiency‑based and communication‑focused instruction

This unit is part of the Empreintes 1 French 3 CI curriculum, a cohesive, proficiency-based program built on comprehensible input and thematic instruction. Use this unit on its own or combine it with other Empreintes units to create a coherent French 3 curriculum.

Pair this unit with other CI units from Somewhere to Share:

• Comprehensible Input (CI) Empreintes Curriculum Growing Bundle

French 3 Curriculum Unit | CI Comprehensible Input French 3 | Proficiency-Based Unit | Empreintes Curriculum | Ressemblances 

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