Here's a checklist of topics for P4, resources for all of these follow the list.
1. Classroom instructions
2. Praise
3. The Register
4. Conversational vocabulary (re-cap from P1-3): saying your name, how you are, giving your age, birthday and key "getting by vocab." (hello, goodbye, please, thank you). The end goal of this consolidation is a mobile phone conversation between pupils where they ask each other for this information.
5. Numbers 0-70
6. Snacks/Food
7. Culture: La Chandeleur (Pancake Day in France) This is to link into the Food topic.
8. Weather (re-cap from P3)
9. Starting to explore a bilingual dictionary
10. Story/Song/Game: Je m'habille et je te croque by Bénédicte Guettier. (Similar in idea to What's the time Mr Wolf? but using clothes vocabulary instead of the time.)
11: Story: Trois Petits Cochons ("Three Little Pigs"). Just for enjoyment!
12: Culture: Christmas
There are lots of ICT resources out there to help consolidate topics already covered in P1-3. Languages Online is an excellent site with lots of exercises and games to practise numbers, colours, weather, days, months, animals and clothes. Here's the link: http://languagesonline.org.uk/Hotpotatoes/Index.htm
1. Classroom instructions
The hope is to build up pupils' exposure to and understanding of French classroom instructions as they travel up the school. Therefore, please try to use the classroom instructions from P1-3 and then gradually incorporate new instructions for P4. In P4, there is an increased focus on giving instructions so that pupils can access learning resources on the computers.
English
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French command
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French “we are going to...”
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Log on to the computers
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On va
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Log off the computers
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On va
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Look up in the dictionary
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Count
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Add
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Subtract
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Divide
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Multiply
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10 minute lesson ideas
a. Jacques a dit - Simon says. Play Simon Says in French - Jacques a dit to help consolidate classroom instructions.
b. Build these instructions into the school day gradually so that they become part of the day-today class routine.
c. Charades
2. Praise
You will receive a Praise poster to display in the your classroom. Below is a grid with a bank of different praise phrases and their pronunciation.
Well done!
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Good work!
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Great!
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Fantastic!
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Super/Great!
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Excellent!
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Very good!
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Good!
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Good effort!
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Good try!
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3. The Register
Below is a table with key vocabulary:
L’appel
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The register
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Here!
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Present! (boy)
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Present! (girl)
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That’s me!
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I’m here!
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Yes Miss/Sir!
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Français
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Anglais
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Hello!
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Hi!
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Please (to teacher)
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Please (to friend and classmate)
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Thank you
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Goodbye
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See you later
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What is your name?
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My name is…
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Your name is…
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Ça va? How are you?
Génial/super/magnifique/fantastique Brilliant
Ça va très bien Very good
Ça va Bien/ Ça va Good/fine
Comme ci comme ça So so
Mal Bad
Ça va très mal Dreadful
Et toi? And you?
a. Who said that to revise key "getting by vocabulary" - hello, goodbye, please, thank you?
- A pupil sits with their back to the class.
- Someone in the class has to say one of the key conversational bits of vocab: "bonjour", "au revoir", "s'il te plaît", "merci".
- If the person with their back to the class guesses correctly, they swap places with that person.
- Similar to the game above.
- Pupils form a line at the back of the class and one pupil stands at the front of the class with their back to everyone else.
- The teacher points to a pupil at the back of the class. They say "Je m'appelle La Reine Victoria" in a funny voice.
- If the pupil at the front guesses correctly, they swap places. Funny if you can sneak the odd guest teacher in for this too, we've had a head teacher take part!
Rythmic chant. Youtube video to help to re-cap the vocabulary.
Class Conversation
- Pupils travel around the room asking each other their age. To consolidate greetings, you can ask them to say hello and goodbye to each other in French too.
- Powerpoint with language.
- To revise different numbers, give out small cards with numbers on them. You need to make pairs of cards with the same numbers on them.
- Pupils travel around the class asking each other their age (they can ask name too). Pupils have to find someone with the same age card as them.
- Give pupils a card each with a number on it between 1-20 on it (give out the cards in chronological order - it doesn't matter if you have to repeat numbers so each pupil has one).
- Pupils create their own lotto board with 9 numbers from 1-20 on them
- Pick a pupil. They have to say, "Bonjour, j'ai...ans" (giving the age that is on their card).
- Pupils cross off that number if they have it on their board.
- First pupil to complete their board, jumps up, shouting Lotto.
- You could also adapt this so that pupils were playing it in small groups.
Pass the Parcel to revise all conversational vocab
- You need a box and in it you put lots of slips of paper with vocab from this topic.
- Comment t'appelles-tu? - translate question or answer it
- Quel âge as-tu? - translate question or answer it
- Ça va? - translate question or answer it
- Je m'appelle... - complete the sentence
- J'ai...ans - complete the sentence
- Bonjour! - read out the word and translate it into English
- Au revoir! - read out the word and translate it into English
- Salut! - read out the word and translate it into English
- À plus! - read out the word and translate it into English
- S'il te plaît - read out the word and translate it into English
- Merci - read out the word and translate it into English
- Play some French music on Youtube and have a class DJ - no peeking from the DJ!
- Pass the box around the class. When the music stops, the pupil holding the box opens it and takes out a slip of paper. They then do the challenge listed above in red that matched their piece of paper.
So it's not death by French numbers, it's a good idea just to drip feed week inputs of numbers throughout the school year. Below are some ideas.
a. Number revision 1-10 via Languagesonline.org (under the primary tab - Les Chiffres)
b. The numbers 1-70
Sound files from the BBC to help teach the numbers to 70: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/french/numbers/numbers_30_100/
c. Numbers 1-40
d. Languages OnlineMore exercises to consolidate the numbers.
Click on Français on the homepage, then vocabulary, then Encore Tricolore 1, then:
Exercises 26-33 practise numbers.
e. Numbers 1-60
A workbook to practise these numbers.
Games and other activities
f. Fizz Buzz. You sit when the teacher says an odd number and stand when they say an even number.
g. Number Dash. Best done in the gym hall and a good P.E
warm-up.
- You put the numbers up along one wall.
- Form two teams and pairs then race against each other to the other side of the room to touch the number you (or a pupil) call out.
- Whoever gets there first wins a point for their team.
h. Dice sums.
- Dice Resource
- Using the talking interactive Dice on the resource above, invite two pupils up to roll the dice.
- The teacher (or a pupil) then adds a +, -, x or ÷ sign and pupils do the sum
- Pupils could do this exercise as a competition (two sides of the class against each other), as a quiet, whole class exercise or the whiteboard could be used as a station as part of a carousel lesson.
i. Répondez en français (answer in French)
- When working on maths in English, give pupils the option of answering in French.
- The rest of the class can then shout out the French answer in English (just to check everyone is listening)!
j. Three "lottos"
- Standard Lotto. Pupils create a grid. You or another pupil calls out a number between a determined group of numbers e.g. 30-50. The first pupil to get a line, stands up and shouts out lotto.
- Sit Down Lotto. Pupils write down three numbers between a determined group of numbers. The class stands up. You or another pupil calls out a number in that number range. If it's one of the numbers the pupil has in their jotter, they have to sit down. The last pupil standing is the winner.
- Strip Bingo.
Pupils are given a strip of paper. They fold it in half and then in
half again. They open it out again. They now have four
boxes. They put a number in each box.
You or another pupil calls out a number within the decided number range. Pupils can only tear off one of their strips if that number appears at the end of their strip of paper. If it's in one of the middle boxes, there's nothing they can do. The pupil who manages to tear off each box and also has their final box called out, wins.
There are lots
of additional resources and ideas under the P1 tab.
6. Snacks/Food
The BBC Primary Languages has some good vocabulary with sound files: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/french/food_and_drink/food/
Here is a good game from the BBC that pupils can play on the computer: http://primarygamesarena.com/redirect.php?id=2127
7. Culture: La Chandeleur (Pancake Day in France)
Resources:
1. A couple of videos to introduce the topic:
- From the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zvjygk7
- From YouTube:
2. A great Powerpoint resource from TES that gives a great overview of La Chandeleur.
3. A dictionary exercise to find out the ingredients for making crêpes.
4. A talking exercise. Pupils say what toppings they like on a crêpe. Sur mes crêpes, j'aime...(On my pancakes, I like...)
8. Weather (re-cap from P3)
Here's a re-cap of the resources from P3:
Below is a table with the vocabulary for this topic:
il fait
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chaud
froid
beau
gris/mauvais
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It’s
hot
It’s
cold
It’s
good weather
It’s
grey/bad weather
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il
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pleut
neige
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It’s
raining
It’s
snowing
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Il y a
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du vent
du brouillard
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It’s
windy
It’s
foggy
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Resources (taken from Lightbulb Languages):
- Weather cards for Flashcards and other games
- Random weather selector - more weather images for games e.g. Pupils guess the weather that will be on the slide.
- Kim's Game resource
- Weather Rhymes. Rhyming the weather to French place names (good for introducing pupils to the map of France). E.g. Il fait beau à Bordeaux.
- Weather Worksheet
- Daily Weather forecast. Using the cards above, a pupil gives a weather forecast at the start of each day and holds up the correct card. E.g Aujourd'hui, il fait gris. (Today it is dreich!)
- Dressing up game.
- You need two boxes with props that are associated with different weathers, e.g. sunglasses, a wooly hat, a welly boot.
- Two teams line up at the back of the room, each box is at the front.
- You or a pupil calls out a weather phrase. The first pupil in the line from each team runs to the front and puts on or holds up the prop associated with that phrase.
- The first pupil to do this, wins a point for their team
- Weather Wheel. Pupils can create their own weather wheel. (Resources from tes.co.uk)
- Weather and Date Chart (Resource from tes.co.uk)
Pupils can start to explore a bilingual dictionary in P4 becoming familiar with the fact that it is divided into two halves and starting to find the different letters in each half. These are a few simple/silly games to get this started:
- Dictionary races when pupils go head-to-head, going from one end of the classroom to the other with a dictionary on their heads
- Fastest finger first - "Who can find me the letter D in the French side of the dictionary?" The first person to point to that letter in their dictionary gets a point for their team.
- Organising a list of words on the topic being studied into alphabetical order, which will help them when then looking up these words in the dictionary
- Expanding their vocabulary on a topic (e.g clothes as part of the story Je m'habille et je te croque) with the help of a dictionary.
- A Dictionary worksheet courtesy of Light bulb Languages
10. Story/Song/Game
The story Je m'habille et je te croque is a classic French children's story. It goes hand in hand with the song Promenons-nous dans les bois, which is very popular in French nurseries and primaries. It is in a similar vain to What's the Time Mr Wolf? but with clothing instead of the time.
The Story Je m'habille et je te croque
Available to buy on Amazon but below is a Youtube clip of the story being told. It's a good introduction to items of clothing, which pupils will learn further up in primary.
Below are a few ideas of games that could link into this story (there are lots of further ideas that can be adapted from under the stories tab):
a. Corners Game
- Place picture prompts or items of clothing around the room.
- Pupils move around the room until "Allez" is called (the caller can be a pupil or teacher).
- Pupils then run to a picture.
- Without looking, the caller calls out the name of one of the pictures in French.
- Pupils who are standing in that corner are out.
- Give four pupils an item of clothing or picture of an item of clothing from the book.
- Picture resource (you can cut these up if you're not using actual items of clothing)
- They hold them at the front of the room for the class to see.
- The card holders are the thumb-putter-downers
- The pupils who have had their thumbs put down, say the image on the card in French instead of the person's name.
- e.g Team races to dress up as the wolf. A pupil pulls a sentence from the story out of a bag and reads it aloud e.g "Je mets ma culotte". Two pupils go head to head and have to run to the dressing up box and put on the correct item. The winner gets a point for their team.
- Pupils create their a dice in pairs using this template.
- As with other colouring in exercises, pupils can't take a pencil for themselves, they need to ask those in their group topass them one in French:
- "Le crayon rouge, s'il te plaît". (The red pencil, please); " Le feutre bleu, s'il te plaît" (The blue pen please).
- The person passing the pen or pencil replies, "Voilà" (here you go).
- With the dice ready to go, pupils play in pairs. One person throws the dice. They then try to make a sentence from the book that matches the item of clothing on their dice.
- Using the actions of putting on the different items of clothing from the book. E.g "Jaques a dit, je mets mes chausettes"
Here's a Youtube clip to introduce it:
The game version of the song is a little bit different. Here it is to teach to pupils (embarrassingly, I've included sound files of the song line by line to help you teach it to classes - apologies for the DREADFUL voice!)
Whole class sings:
Prom'nons-nous dans les bois, (We are walking in the woods)
Pendant que le loup n'y est pas (While the wolf isn't there)
Si le loup y était (If he was there)
Il nous mangerait, (He would eat us)
Mais comme il y est pas, (But as he's not there)
Il nous mangera pas. (He won't eat us)
Whole class: Loup, y es-tu? (Wolf, are you there?)
Wolf replies: Oui (Yes)
Whole class: M'entends-tu? (Can you hear us?)
Wolf replies: Oui (Yes)
Whole class: Que fais-tu? (What are you doing?)
Wolf replies: Je mets ma culotte...et j'arrive! (I'm putting on my pants and I'm coming to get you!)
The game works as follows:
- Pick a wolf.
- The class and wolf walk around the gym hall singing the song.
- When the wolf sings "J'arrive", she or she has to run and tig someone in the class who then becomes the wolf.
- Repeat, replacing ma culotte with a different item of clothing from the story or clothing in general. Some ideas:
- mes chausettes - my socks
- ma veste - my jacket
- mes bottes - my boots
- mon chapeau - my hat
- mes gants - my gloves
- mon pantalon - my trousers
- ma jupe - my skirt
a. The Christmas song, Quand le Père Noël vient me visiter (When Santa comes to visit me)
- This links back to colours and clothing.
- Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynt7aO8CuGw&safe=active
- Teaching resource
- Worksheet
c. Christmas in France: a brief overview
Resource (resource from tes.co.uk)
d. Happy Christmas
Pupils wish each other Joyeux Noël. Resource.
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