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French Professions — Les Professions

Eleventh graders learn to talk about jobs and careers in French — le médecin, le professeur, l’ingénieur, le cuisinier, l’avocat — so they can discuss work, ambitions, and the future.

Grade 11Les Professions55 minutes1 class periodACTFL / CommunicativeExplicit teaching4 StandardsACTFL
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Name professions.
  • ✓Talk about work.
  • ✓Describe a career.
  • ✓Discuss the future.
Essential Question

What do you want to BE? Talking about jobs and careers is a real-world skill. What are the professions in French?

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Interactive Task
Explore · Interactive

The Professions Explorer

Project this and tap each word. Have students learn French profession vocabulary.

🧑‍💼 Explore professions — tap eachTry it

The Lesson · Communicative Flow (Warm-Up · Present · Practice · Speak · Reflect)

55 minutes, five moves

Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.

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Warm-Up — What Do You Want to Be?

6 min

Talking about jobs and careers is a real-world skill — what are they in French?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Ask about dream jobs.
  • Ask how to say them.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Share.
  • Guess.
  • Get ready.
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Present — Les Professions

13 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to the Professions Explorer.
  • Present each job.
  • Say them aloud.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Tap each.
  • Repeat.
  • Practice.
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Practice — Practice

15 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Match jobs to what they do.
  • Say “Je veux être…”
  • Describe a job.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Match.
  • Say it.
  • Describe.
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Speak — Speak

15 min

Students speak.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Say what you want to be.
  • Explain why.
  • Ask a partner.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Explain.
  • Ask.
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Reflect — Reflect

6 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a profession.
  • Say what they do.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name one.
  • Say it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Intermediate).

ACTFL
Communication 1.1

Interpersonal: discuss careers.

ACTFL
Cultures 2.1

Explore work across cultures.

ACTFL
Connections 3.1

Connect to career planning.

ACTFL
Communication 1.2

Interpretive: understand job words.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Profession picture cards.
  • Sentence frame: “Je veux être ___.”
  • Use job images.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with médecin and professeur.
  • Use pictures.
  • Repeat aloud.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Add more professions.
  • Describe a workday.
  • Discuss your future career.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 🧑‍💼Job picture cards
  • 💻The Professions Explorer
  • 🗣️Audio
  • ✏️Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

la professionprofessionle médecindoctorle professeurteacherl’ingénieurengineerle cuisiniercook/chefl’avocatlawyerle travailjobla carrièrecareer
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
What does “le médecin” mean?
A doctor.
QUESTION 2
What does “l’ingénieur” do?
Designs and builds (an engineer).
QUESTION 3
How do you say “I want to be…”?
Je veux être…

Reflect: Que veux-tu être?

Have students say one profession they’d like and why, in French. A printable professions sheet is in the World Languages library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

🖨️ French Professions (Les Professions)Print
Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: la carrière, la profession, le cuisinier, le médecin, le professeur, le travail, l’avocat, l’ingénieur
  1. cook/chef
  2. engineer
  3. teacher
  4. career
  5. lawyer
  6. job
  7. doctor
  8. profession

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. What does “le médecin” mean?
  2. What does “l’ingénieur” do?
  3. How do you say “I want to be…”?
Answer key — Part A: 1) le cuisinier · 2) l’ingénieur · 3) le professeur · 4) la carrière · 5) l’avocat · 6) le travail · 7) le médecin · 8) la profession
Part B: 1) A doctor. 2) Designs and builds (an engineer). 3) Je veux être…