La Famille- French Infographics

About this resource

What's inside this resource

La famille- Infographics on the topic of family

This document is a versatile teaching resource designed to enrich the learning of advanced French students, specifically in the 11th and 12th grades.

This set of infographics showcases diverse aspects related to Family Trends in France, offering an insightful visual approach that promotes a deeper understanding for this thematic.

Key Features:

Visual Appeal: Each infographic is characterized by its visual appeal packing well-presented facts.
Vast Topics: Cover topics such as - "Le mariage", "Le PACS", "Le divorce" and more. In total there are 14 unique infographics sheets within this package.
Versatility: These infographics can be used during class discussions or to supplement textbook references. They may also serve for small group activities or individual study sessions where students explore specific subjects in-depth at their own pace outside of regular class hours.
'Test your knowledge' Feature: With answer key provided; an engaging way to incite self-assessment amongst learners. Offering them the ability to gauge their comprehension prior to actual teacher evaluations.

Included Content

The resource package includes a convenient 15-page booklet encapsulating all contents plus discrete files available for every infographic sheet based on academic needs.

They come in PDF format ensuring easy accessibility across various software while maintaining originality of layout designs without worry about misalignments or distortions during prints/uploads/downloads. Please note that the sheets are not editable.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Read authentic French definitions and statistics on family structures without translation support
Distinguish le mariage, le PACS, l'union libre, le concubinage and la cohabitation by their legal and everyday differences
Describe the main family types recognised in France — nucléaire, monoparentale, homoparentale and recomposée — and the vocabulary attached to each, including beaux-parents and demi-frères
Discuss generational topics in French: the baby-boomers born between 1946 and 1964, le fossé des générations, and the changing role of grandparents
Write an extended French response to open prompts such as how the family has changed in recent decades or what explains the falling marriage rate

Teaching tips

Hand out single sheets rather than the whole document when running a jigsaw: the separate files are already numbered by topic, so groups can take mariage, PACS, divorce and recomposée in parallel and report back.
Use the eight 'Complète les phrases' items as a pre-reading prediction task before students see any sheet, then again afterwards to show what they picked up.
The five 'Réponds aux questions' prompts are essay-length and only the first carries a model paragraph, so plan the other four as class discussion or written homework.
Pair sheet 3 with sheet 2: union libre, concubinage and cohabitation are defined against one another there and are easily confused with the PACS.
Several sheets carry sensitive material — divorce, same-sex parenting, assisted reproduction and adolescent stress — so read the relevant sheet before assigning it to a particular class.

Skills covered

Reading authentic French non-fiction — every sheet is written entirely in French, opening with formal definitions such as 'Acte solennel par lequel deux personnes qui s'aiment établissent une union légitime'.
Civic and legal vocabulary — students meet le PACS, le Code civil, la mairie, le divorce par consentement mutuel, l'endogamie of family law and the terminology of blended families.
Interpreting statistics in French — sheets carry percentages and counts (20 per cent of metropolitan French families are single-parent, more than 40 per cent in the DROM) that students must read in context.
Comparing past and present — sheets are structured around 'Avant' and 'Maintenant' contrasts, asking students to describe change over time in French.
Extended written response — the closing prompts ask for full paragraphs on family change, the falling marriage rate, single-parent difficulties and the generation gap.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Are the sheets usable one at a time?

Yes — the download carries a single-pages folder in which each of the fourteen sheets exists as its own numbered file, from 1.mariage to 14.reponses, alongside the combined document.

What does the 'Teste tes connaissances' section ask for?

Two things. Eight sentence-completion items with three options each — on the direction of the marriage rate, how the PACS compares to marriage, when mutual-consent divorce was simplified, the share of nuclear families, who children live with after a separation, and the baby-boom — then five open questions inviting a written paragraph, beginning with how the family has changed in recent decades.

How current are the figures on the sheets?

They are tied to identifiable reference points a teacher can date: the PACS instituted in 1999 and moved to the mairie in 2017, baby-boomers defined as those born between 1946 and 1964, single-parent families having more than doubled in forty years, and around 1.5 million children living in a blended family.