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Unit 20: My future world

Study habits, college preparation, careers, salaries; describing future events orally and in writing; giving advice; roll playing, interviews, surveys. The unit lasts for 7 days.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

• Discuss professions and other positions of gainful employment
• Discuss future events
• Make plans for preparing for future employment
• Work collaboratively
• Communicate in paragraphs and series of paragraphs

Lessons

• Day 1: Let's talk about our future
• Day 2: Career options
• Day 3: Job faire
• Day 4: My priorities for the future
• Day 5: Interview of a working person
• Days 6-7: Culminating project rehearsal and presentations

Meeting the ACTFL national standards

1. Communication
   • 1.1: Students engage in conversation, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
   • 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.
   • 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
3. Connections
   • 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language.
5. Communities
   • 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting.

Meeting the World Language Content Standards for California Public Schools

1. Content Stage III:
   • 3.1 Students address concrete and factual topics related to the immediate and external environment, including: social norms, historical and cultural figures, careers and future plans.
2. Communication Stage III:
   • 3.0 Students use planned language (paragraphs and strings of paragraphs.)
   • 3.2 Students interpret written, spoken or signed language.
   • 3.3 Students present to an audience of listeners and readers.
3. Structures Stage III:
   • 3.1 Students use paragraph-level discourse to produce formal communications.
4. Settings Stage III:
   • 3.0 Students use language in informal and some formal settings.
   • 3.1 Students initiate language use opportunities outside the classroom.

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