Primary schools

Booklet 2

Suggestions for school topic

1). Parallel text. Read aloud line by line for the children to repeat after you.

2). Read again and stop mid-sentence, the children say the word that comes next.

3). Pick out key items of vocab and ask them to locate the French - eg “because it is”, “my favourite subject is”

4). Find the key items in the grid and copy them 3 times each

5). Pupils cover the french side of the grid with a book. The teacher says one line in French and the children identify the correct line of translation.

6). The most able could try to cover the French and try to translate line by line into French.

7). Do the linguascope sheet included to familiarise the children with all the school subjects. They could then play bingo with the words in a 3X3 grid. Either writing the subjects in French or Eng

8). Do the gap-fill translations and the stop the flow text.

9). Listening - order the sentences. Teacher says the sentences in a different order and the children label them in the order that they are said.

10). Listening - slalom - the teacher says sentences from the grid, working from the top to the bottom. Please see a colour coded grid on the next slide to help you. The children number one box from each row to identify all parts of the teacher’s sentence.

11). Noughts and crosses - children play in pairs. They have to translate the sentences in the relevant boxes to take their turn.

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12). Speaking pyramids. Children work in pairs. When it is their turn, they cover the French version of the pyramid and start translating the English one aloud into French, gradually creating a longer sentence. Their partner looks at the French to check their accuracy. When they make a mistake, their partner stops them and shows them their mistake and they swap. The winner is the first person to finish the whole pyramid correctly.

You can do this also as a whole class activity with the teacher reading the pyramid line by line and the children chanting the translation.

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More able pupils could create new pyramids for the rest of the class.

13). Faulty translation - find the mistakes in the English translation. The most able could rewrite the French to correctly match the English text.

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14). The most able could do the translation for more challenge.

Pencil case suggestions.

1). Present the new words with the slides provided here. Children repeat them. Discuss why they think some are blue, red of green - masculine, feminine, plural.

2). Beat the teacher. Have one example of each item and hold them up and say a French pencil case item. If you say the correct word, the students repeat. If you say the wrong one they have to be silent. Eg if you hold up a pencil and say “une calculette”, they mustn’t say it. If the do it correctly the win a point, if they make a mistake the teacher gets a point. First to 5 wins.

3). Memory game. Show all the items and the children repeat the vocab, one child leaves the room, you remove one item and they come back in. They must tell you in French which item is missing.

4). Heads down thumbs up - same as the usual game but give the three people a pencil case item as their name. The children refer to them as their pencil case item name when guessing who touched their thumb.

5). Do the first sheet - compare the different articles for masculine, feminine and plural.

6). Do the parallel text in the same way as for the school subjects topic. Ask the children what they notice about the position of the colours with the nouns and if they notice any other differences - eg endings on colours when they describe plural nouns.

7). Try getting the children to write some pencil case phrases on whiteboards and hold up - eg the pencil, a pencil, my pencil etc.

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Sports and hobbies

1). Re-cap the opinion verbs using the 4 slides included here. Pupils will need to use and recognise the symbols for each opinion throughout this topic.

2). The rest of the activities are duplicates from previous topics.

The ordering listening is this time given to the students in English and the teacher can say the sentences in French. I have copied a French version onto the next slide.

The most able students could try and translate the sentences back into French.

). The rest of the activities are similar to the school ones.

The last two activities - the reading and the translation are extension activities for the most able. I have included the answer for the translation into French here too.

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Hello, my name is Françoise and I am thirteen years old. I live in Monpellier in the South of France and I have a brother. Honestly, I think that my favourite hobby is dancing because it’s quite active and extremely creative. My Dad loves cooking because he thinks that it’s really relaxing but in my opinion it’s too stressful.

Bonjour, je m’appelle Françoise et j’ai treize ans. J’habite à Montpellier dans le sud de la France et j’ai un frère. Honnêtement je pense que mon passe-temps préféré c’est la danse parce que c’est assez actif et extrêmement créatif. Mon père adore la cuisine parce qu’il pense que c’est vraiment relaxant mais à mon avis c’est trop stressant.

• J’aime

• J’adore

• Je n’aime pas

• Je déteste

Dans ma trousse

il y a …

une trousse�

un bâton de colle��

un bic

un crayon�

Des feutres �

un stylo�

un taille-crayon�

une calculette�

une gomme�

une règle�

des ciseaux�

des crayons de couleur