P3

In P3, here is quite a lot of building on and consolidation of the language pupils have been introduced to in P1 and P2.  Here's a checklist of topics for P3, resources for all of these follow the list.

1.  Classroom instructions
2.  Praise
3.  The Register
4.  Conversational vocabulary (re-cap from P1-2 - name, age and "getting by vocab" of please, thank you, hello, goodbye and saying how you are) 
5.  Numbers 0-31
6.  Days of the week and months of the year (P1 and P2 re-cap)
7.  Birthdays
8.  Weather
9.  Body Parts (see also no. 10 for a story to teach this topic)
10.  Story: Toutes les Couleurs (All the Colours) by Alex Sanders (links the topics of colours and body parts)
11.  Culture: Pâques (Easter)
12.  Culture: Fête des Mères (Mother's Day)

1.  Classroom instructions
The hope is to build up pupils' exposure to and understanding of French classroom instructions as they travel up the school.  The P1 and P2 classroom instructions (to be found under the P1 and P2 tabs at the top of the homepage) would therefore be used with the addition of the list below. In P2, there is a greater focus on instructions to do with movement, which would fit in well with P.E and outdoor activities.  As with P1-2, build up the instructions at your and your own classes' pace.

P3 Classroom Language

English	French command	French “we are going to...”
Go and get	Cherchez…	On va chercher
Take…	Prenez…	On va prendre
Choose…	Choissez…	On va choisir
Watch	Regardez	On va regarder
Put away…	Rangez…	On va ranger
Put away your things	Rangez les affaires	On va ranger les affaires
Draw	Dessinez	On va dessiner
Work with a partner	Travaillez à deux	On va travailler à deux
Put up your hand	Levez les mains	On va lever les mains
Put up a sticker	Affichez un sticker	On va afficher un sticker

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. 

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.

Bravo!	Well done!
Bon travail!	Good work!
Génial!	Great!
Fantastique!	Fantastic!
Super!	Super/Great!
Excellent!	Excellent!
Très bien!	Very good!
Bien!	Good!
Bon effort!	Good effort!
Bon essai!	Good try!

3.  The Register

Below is a table with key vocabulary:

L’appel	The register
Ici!	Here!
Présent!	Present! (boy)
Présente!	Present! (girl)
C’est moi!	That’s me!
Je suis là!	I’m here!
Oui Madame/Monsieur!	Yes Miss/Sir!

4.  Conversational vocabulary

Français	Anglais
Bonjour!	Hello!
Salut!	Hi!
S’il vous plaît	Please (to teacher)
S’il te plaît	Please (to friend and classmate)
Merci	Thank you
Au revoir	Goodbye
À plus	See you later
Comment t’appelles-tu?	What is your name?
Je m’appelle…	My name is…
Tu t’appelles…	Your name is…

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?

10 minute lesson ideas 

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. 

b.  "Je m'appelle La Reine Victoria" "My name is Queen Victoria" to revise "my name is...."

• 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!  

c.  Some ideas from P2 to revise giving your age.

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.

Class Lotto

• 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. 

5.  Numbers 0-31

Number sound files: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/french/numbers/numbers_11_20/

There's a Youtube video under the "Songs" section below which runs through the numbers 1-31.

a.  Songs

Cerise Counting Song (1-12)

Numbers 1-20

Numbers 21-31

A bit dry and not a song, a youtube clip that runs through the numbers 1-31.  I couldn't find a song for 21-31, maybe pupils could come up with one?!

b.  Walk and Talk
A good talking resource to practise the numbers 1-31.  Instructions are on the PDF.

c.  Fizz Buzz.  You sit when the teacher says an odd number and stand when they say an even number.

d.  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.

e.  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.

f.  Hide and seek.  

• A pupil leaves the classroom.  
• You hide an object and the pupil then returns.  
• The rest of the class then chants the numbers (either 1-10, 11-20 or 20-31), getting louder according to how close (warm) they get to finding the object and getting quieter according to how far (cold) they are.  
• You could use an object relevant to the topic you are studying.

g. 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)! 

h.  Addition and Subtraction lotto

• Pupils have a whiteboard each.  
• They write five numbers on it between 1-31
• The teacher or class volunteer shouts out sums in French, e.g:
• 5 + 5 (cinq plus cinq)
• 17-7 (dix-sept moins sept)

• Pupils have to calculate the answer to the sum
• If they have that answer on their whiteboard, they circle it.
• First person to circle all five correctly, jumps up and shouts "Lotto" 

i.  Three more "lottos"

1. Standard Lotto.  Pupils create a grid.  You or another pupil calls out a number 1-31.  The first pupil to get a line, stands up and shouts out lotto.
2. Sit Down Lotto.  Pupils write down three numbers between 1-31.  The class stands up.  You or another pupil calls out a number 1-31.  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.
3. 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 1-31.  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.  Days of the week and months of the year (P1 and P2 re-cap)

10 minute lesson ideas

a.  Sing the days of the week
To the tune of Old MacDonald.  Resource

 
b.  Date in Jotters
To keep on reinforcing the days of the week and months of the year, pupils can write the date in French:

e.g. Aujourd'hui c'est lundi, le deux janvier - Today it's Monday, the second of January

day + le (the) + number + month

The main learning point is that the days of the week and months of the year do not take capital letters and most of the months of the year are cognates, i.e. they look the same in French and English.

c.  Date display for classroom
Date display in French in the classroom.  Here is a (hopefully) helpful display of the months of the year: train display resource 

d.  Video clips to re-inforce the days and months of the year
(Annoyingly, they start with capital letters, which isn't the case in French unless at the start of a sentence.)

e.  Months of the year Flashcards

• Powerpoint resource.  (There are lots of ideas, under the "Stories" tab on the homepage, about how to use Flashcards if you plan to print these off.)
• For certain months, the images have a bit of cultural significance for France:
• février: La Chandleur is the French version of pancake day
• juillet: Bastille Day on 14th
• août: Les Grandes Vacances when many businesses close for at least three weeks in August and people go on holiday
• septembre: La rentrée - the start of the school year 
• As well as Flashcards, there are slides included to enable you to do "oui ou non" style activities, play noughts and crosses and guess the month hiding behind the squares. 
• Main learning points: they don't start with a capital letter in French; many of the months are cognates (look like the English months of the year).

There are lots of additional ideas and resources under the P1 and P2 tabs, (the P1 tab in particular).

7.  Birthdays

10 minute lesson ideas

a.  Quelle est la date de ton anniversaire?  When is your birthday?  
A song to introduce the vocabulary to revise months and ask someone when their birthday is:

 

b.  Birthday Jack n' The Box.  Pupils crouch behind their chair.  They jump up when they hear their birthday being called out.

c.  Joyeux Anniversaire.  Happy Birthday
Play this Happy Birthday video that pupils can sing along to each time it's someone in the class' birthday:

d.  Dialogue

• Pupils carry out a short dialogue in pairs
• Powerpoint with the vocabulary for this exercise. (They can change the parts underlined).
• And end result could be a class film of pupils asking each other when their birthdays are.

e.  Dialogue + Numeracy

• Pupils travel around the class asking each other their birthdays.
• They create a tally chart as they do this to record how many birthdays fall in each month.
• They display their results as a bar or pie chart.

f.  Sit down Bingo

• Give pupils a card each with a birthday written on it (some pupils can have the same birthday date)
• Have the same cards in a bag at the front of the class
• Volunteers come out, pick a card and read out the birthday in French
• If it matches the card of a pupil, he or she has to sit down
• The last one standing is the winner. 

g.  Seasons and birthdays
Following on from seasons in P2.  Resource. (from tes.co.uk)

8.  Weather

Below is a table with the vocabulary for this topic:

il fait	chaud froid beau gris/mauvais du soleil	It’s hot It’s cold It’s good weather It’s grey/bad weather It's sunny
il	pleut neige	It’s raining It’s snowing
Il y a	du vent du brouillard	It’s windy It’s foggy

 
Weather song to help with some of the sounds:

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 

Other ideas:

• 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. (From tes.co.uk)
• Weather wheel instructions and exemplar
• Weather wheel template

• Weather and Date Chart
• Resource (from tes.co.uk)

9.  Body Parts

At this stage, it's just a simple introduction to body parts in French through song and stories.


a.  "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"  In French, they sing, "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Feet instead: "Tête, épaules, genoux et pieds":

b.  Le Corps labelling activity

• To follow on from "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes".  Worksheet resource. (from tes.co.uk)

c.  Le Corps randomiser game

• A Powerpoint game (from tes.co.uk) to follow on from "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"
• Put the powerpoint presentation in slideshow view and hit "S" to stop randomly on a part of the skeleton's body (hit "s" again to return to random slides)

10.  Toutes les Couleurs (All the Colours) by Alex Sanders
A lovely French children's story that practises colours with parts of the body.  Available to buy at on Amazon but here's the story being told in a Youtube clip: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEnjqd2vPwM

Extension activities:

• Colour in the colours
• Pupils colour in the colours.  Resource (worth photocopying up to A3 to make the letters big enough to colour in.) Pupils could always do their own bubble writing too for this exercise.
• Pupils can't take a pencil for themselves, they need to ask those in their group to pass 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).
• Label the Lapin (Rabbit)
• As an extension, pupils can look up other body parts in the dictionary to label the rabbit with new vocabulary. 
• Lapin colouring in/labelling resource

11.  Culture: Pâques (Easter)
a.  Easter Talking Cards and Quiz

• To gain an understanding of how Easter is celebrated in France, pupils move around the room asking each other the question on their question cards and then providing the answer if the person doesn't know (Je ne sais pas - I don't know).
• Once a piece of info has been exchanged, whether that person knew the answer or not they should exchange dominoes and move on.  
• Check for understanding with the quiz
• Talking cards resource (from tes.co.uk)
• Quiz resource  (from tes.co.uk)

b.  Easter Maths hunt (resources from tes.co.uk)

•  This activity requires the teacher to laminate the Maths Hunt Question cards. 
• They then display them around the classroom, hall or playground (depending on weather)! Pupils record the answer to each question on the matching picture. 
• At the end they reveal a secret message by changing the numbers in each answer into a letter using the code. The message in this activity is French for Happy Easter.
• Easter Maths Hunt Question Cards to laminate
• Easter Maths Hunt Question Cards 2 to laminate
• Pupil question sheet

c.  Easter Bells song
An brief overview about the importance of the Easter Bells in France and a song to sing (to the tune of Jingle Bells).  Resource  (from tes.co.uk)
d.  Colour by numbers
Resource (from tes.co.uk)

12.  Culture: Fête des Mères (Mother's Day)
Mothers' Day in France is usually on the last Sunday in May, but is moved to the first Sunday of June if it falls on the same day as Whit Sunday/Pentecost. Celebrate Mother's Day in France or Scotland by creating a card.  (Resources from tes.co.uk)
Powerpoint resource with instructions
Card Template