Description

Médicament ou remède is an intermediate French CI curriculum unit from the Empreintes 1 curriculum sequence designed to build proficiency through meaningful, real-world contexts and comprehensible input. In this two-week unit, students explore health, illness, and remedies, comparing modern medicine with traditional and herbal treatments while learning to communicate about symptoms, medical care, and treatment recommendations.

This proficiency-based French curriculum unit supports interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational communication as students engage with healthcare vocabulary and structures in context. Through French music, class stories, informational readings, games, and interactive activities, students practice describing illnesses, discussing treatments, and making recommendations. Students also explore essential oils, home remedies, and healthcare professionals while applying their language skills to realistic situations.

Médicament ou remède can be used as a stand-alone intermediate French thematic unit or as part of the full Empreintes 1 curriculum sequence.

What’s Included

• Full 12-day lesson plan with detailed teacher instructions
• 9-day remote learning and substitute plans
• Engaging Humpty Dumpty unit hook introducing injuries and medical treatments
• Two French songs: Mon âne and La chanson qui guérit
• Daily memes featuring home remedies
• Collaborative class story with accompanying reading activities
• Hands-on vocabulary and sentence-building manipulatives
• Informational reading and activities about essential oils
• Contagieuse !, an interactive game inspired by Werewolf
• Podcast integration featuring Dr. Denis Mukwege
• L’anatomie grise, a doctor-patient simulation and final project
• Additional reading, writing, and listening assessment options

Grammatical Features

Throughout Médicament ou remède, students reinforce present and past tense structures as they describe symptoms, discuss illnesses, and recount medical situations. Students also use future-tense structures to make predictions and expand their language through expressions for giving advice, making recommendations, and explaining treatment options.

Why Teachers Love This Unit

• CI-driven instruction rooted in practical, real-world French
• High student engagement through interactive games, storytelling, and role-play
• Strong focus on meaningful communication rather than memorization
• A thematic approach that builds healthcare vocabulary naturally
• Ready-to-use lessons that save valuable planning time
• Flexible activities and assessments for different classroom needs

This unit is part of Empreintes 1, a cohesive, proficiency-based intermediate French curriculum built on comprehensible input and thematic instruction. Use it independently or alongside other Empreintes units to build students’ confidence and proficiency in French.

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French 3 Curriculum Unit | Intermediate French CI | Comprehensible Input French | Proficiency-Based French | Healthcare and Medicine | Empreintes Curriculum | Médicament ou remède