Empreintes 1.4 L'interrupteur

L’interrupteur is a French 3 CI curriculum unit from the Empreintes 1 curriculum sequence designed to build proficiency through high‑interest visual storytelling, predictive discussion, and comprehensible input. This unit immerses students in meaningful communication about future plans and predictions through a clip chat experience that keeps students engaged and curious about what will happen next. Predictive activities naturally guide students into using future‑time language as they discuss what is in the box, whether the man will push the button, and what the consequences might be.

This proficiency-based French 3 curriculum unit supports interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational communication through scaffolded listening, reading, speaking, and writing tasks. Students build confidence with future‑time communication in context using predictions, discussion, and creative follow‑up tasks rather than isolated grammar practice. While designed for French 3, this unit can easily be extended for French 4 and AP by increasing the complexity of questions and output expectations.

L’interrupteur can be used as a stand-alone French 3 thematic unit or as part of the growing Empreintes 1 curriculum sequence. This unit also includes a Song of the Week built around Le jour après la fin du monde by Corneille. If showing official music videos is required in your classroom, note that the original video may not be school‑appropriate; a lyric video is recommended instead.

What’s included

• Full 6-day lesson plan
• 8-day remote learning & sub plans
• Clip chat materials for L’interrupteur with a predictive focus
• Song lyrics in French
• Cloze activity with word bank
• Cloze activity without word bank
• Ordering activity using the chorus
• Matching activity with song vocabulary
• Mini‑lesson in the target language supporting future‑time communication with an “À partir d’aujourd’hui pledge” follow‑up activity
• Predictive activities connected to the clip chat
• What Comes Next activity where students create a predictive epilogue

Grammatical Feature

In L’interrupteur, students will use the future tense to make predictions.

Why teachers love this unit

• CI‑driven instruction that builds future‑time communication naturally
• High student engagement through mystery and prediction
• Strong support for interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational proficiency
• Ready‑to‑use lessons that save planning time
• Flexible design that works for French 3 and extends easily to French 4 and AP

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 pair it with other Empreintes units to create a coherent French 3 curriculum sequence.

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

• Comprehensible Input (CI) Empreintes Curriculum Growing Bundle

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