Make beginning French engaging with French CI lessons built around Tu conduis mal!, a humorous short story about a terribly distracted driver. Repeated target structures, story formats, and comprehension activities give novice learners accessible input and teachers a ready-to-use lesson.

Bob is a horrible driver - he's always distracted and he drives on the sidewalks frequently. Will anyone be able to change his irresponsible ways? Find out in this CI story for French learners.

There are four targeted vocabulary structures that are used multiple times throughout the story. The targeted structures are:

• conduit mal - he/she drives badly
• sur le trottoir - on the sidewalk
• a écrasé - ran over
• je ne l’ai pas vu - I didn’t see him/it

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

Here’s what you’ll get in this French Comprehensible Input Lesson:

• Links to the videos both with and without the text

• A printable pdf version of the story

• Comprehension question worksheet

• "Who said it?" worksheet

• Story retell worksheet

• Answer key

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