Free 1 Bac Lesson Plans: Our Cultural Heritage (Unit 1) — Vocabulary, Grammar, Listening, Reading & Writing
Free downloadable 1st Bac lesson plans for Unit 1 — Our Cultural Heritage. Vocabulary, the simple past, expressing opinions and beliefs, a listening lesson, reading, and an email writing task.
By My Teacher
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February 22, 2024
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4 min read
Unit 1 of the 1st Bac syllabus opens the year with Our Cultural Heritage — a genuinely meaningful topic for Moroccan students, paired with the simple past for talking about historical events. Below are six free, ready-to-teach lesson plans covering the full unit.
All six are free to download, built on the ESA model (Engage, Study, Activate) and aligned with the Moroccan Standards-Based Approach.
What’s Included
Vocabulary: Cultural Heritage
Key vocabulary for discussing traditions, history, and cultural identity, giving students the language they need to engage with the unit’s topics from the very first lesson.
Grammar: Simple Past
A full lesson on the simple past, essential for narrating historical events and personal experiences — one of the most foundational tenses students carry through the rest of the syllabus.
Functions: Expressing Opinions and Beliefs
Practice expressing opinions and beliefs clearly — genuinely useful language for discussing cultural values, and a function tested directly in the exam’s language section.
Listening: An Audio Chat in the Net
A dedicated listening lesson, giving students focused practice in a skill that often gets less classroom time than reading or writing across a school year.
Reading: A Brief History of Morocco
A reading passage on Moroccan history, building comprehension skills alongside genuine, locally relevant cultural knowledge.
Writing: An Email
A complete lesson on email writing, giving students a practical, real-world format they’ll use well beyond the classroom.
Built for the 1st Bac syllabus
All six lessons are aligned with the Unit 1 curriculum and the Moroccan Standards-Based Approach, so they slot directly into your existing pacing for this unit.
How to Use These in Class
Start with vocabulary before the reading and listening lessons
Since both the Reading and Listening lessons draw on cultural heritage vocabulary, covering the Vocabulary lesson first means students recognize key words rather than meeting them for the first time inside a longer text or audio passage.
Use the history reading to anchor the simple past
“A Brief History of Morocco” is a natural, ready-made source of simple past examples — pull a few real sentences from the text directly into the Grammar lesson instead of relying only on invented examples.
Let opinions and beliefs feed into the email
If the email topic touches on cultural traditions, a quick opinion-sharing warm-up using language from the Functions lesson gives students ideas and phrases to draw on when writing.
Don’t skip the listening lesson
As with other units that include a dedicated listening lesson, this is a low-effort way to make sure the skill gets genuine practice early in the year, since it typically requires more setup than reading or writing and gets skipped more easily.
Cultural heritage content works best with local specifics
Encourage students to bring in one example of a Moroccan tradition or historical event alongside whatever’s covered in the reading — it deepens engagement and gives them more personal material to draw on in the writing task.
Download the Lesson Plans
All six files are free to download individually.
⬇ Vocabulary: Cultural Heritage
⬇ Functions: Expressing Opinions and Beliefs
⬇ Listening: An Audio Chat in the Net
Looking for more structured material? The Teacher Bundle can help you pace this unit alongside the rest of your year, and the Textbook Directory can point you to more resources matched to your exact level.
Yes — all six lesson plans (vocabulary, grammar, functions, listening, reading, and writing) are free to download individually.
It’s built around a passage titled “A Brief History of Morocco,” giving students comprehension practice alongside locally relevant cultural and historical content.
Yes — they follow the 1st Bac Unit 1 syllabus, the ESA model, and the Moroccan Standards-Based Approach.
Listening tends to get less dedicated classroom time than reading or writing, so having a ready-made listening lesson in the very first unit makes it easier to build the habit of regular listening practice from the start of the year.
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