French 1 | Unit 7: Food & Restaurants (6-week Unit)

Engage your students with this 6-week Proficiency-Based Food Unit! This unit has everything you need to teach 30 one-hour lessons.

Topics in this Unit

• Breakfast foods

• Lunch & Dinner foods

• Opinions about food & reasons why

• -ir verbs & -re verbs

• Foods in different francophone countries

• Ordering in a restaurant

• Etiquette in French restaurants

• Reading & Writing restaurant reviews

• French-speaking Geography & Banana taste test (3 day culture unit)

• Proficiency-based final project: create and perform a skit illustrating good and bad French restaurant behavior

Here's what sets our curriculum apart:

• Inquiry-based vocabulary introductions

• Current, authentic sources

• Lots of speaking!

• Hands-on cultural experiences

• Proficiency-based assessments

• Graphics designed for older students

• Every product is fully editable

• Research-based, classroom-tested, and fun!

The unit can be taught online or on paper and is ready to go - but each product includes a link to copy an editable Google slides document so you can customize it if you wish.

This Unit includes

• Bonus Product: A ready to teach 6-week lesson plan with clickable links taking you to the correct page in each product!

Teaching & Self-Assessment Tools

• Food Opinions Unit Slideshow

• Can Do student goal tracking worksheets

Vocabulary & Language Structures

• Food: Breakfast - Authentic Vocabulary Introduction: Choice of French or English student instructions 

• Food: Lunch & Dinners - Authentic Vocabulary Introduction: Choice of  French or English student instructions 

• -ir verbs sentence builders

• regular verbs sentence builders

• Grammar Puzzle for hands-on verb conjugation

Games & Practice

• Word Wall & Flashcards- Breakfast Foods

• Word Wall & Flashcards- Lunch & Dinner Foods

• Link to Blooket game - Breakfast Foods

• Link to Blooket game - Lunch & Dinner Foods

• Scribble Vocabulary game - Breakfast Foods

• Scribble Vocabulary Game - Lunch & Dinner Foods

Reading & Listening 

• Artful Reading Comprehension - Food & Restaurants

• List of listening resources (free)

• Listening, Reading, & Writing Activities

 Writing & Speaking

• Conversation Templates for Interpersonal Speaking - Restaurants

• Student practice assignments

Culture & Context

• Geography & Bananas (Taste Test)

Proficiency-based Project

• Restaurant Etiquette- Proficiency Based Project

This is Unit 7 in the Explore! French 1 curriculum.