FRENCH SPEAKING COUNTRIES

Apart from France and the European countries of Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg Monaco and Quebec Province in Canada there are many French speaking countries (pays francophones) in Africa, the Caribbean and French Polynesia which offer great opportunities for studying wider world issues with International Education and Citizenship themes in line with CfE guidelines.

Task:
Find a French speaking third world country and find out what you can about their daily life and in particular their food. Note any good resources eg websites or books

Food activities (results of homework)

• bingo from Chelsea using SparkleBox flashcards

• Kim’s game from Nicola C using real or play food Use real life or play food and introduce or revise vocabulary using the food as flashcards. Eg regardez et écoutez - la pomme, la pomme de terre etc. Get the children to repeat after you. Ecoutez et répétez. On va faire un jeu qui s’appelle… Explain rules of game in French by saying you will close your eyes - fermez les yeux. open your eyes - ouvrez les yeux. then ask what is missing - qu'est qu'il manque? Children guess using the French vocab. Limit the amount of tries. with more able children have more examples and take more of them away (differentiate according to your class). This is an activity that can be adapted to any French vocabulary.

• Shopping list: writing, dictionary list ingredients for an omelet or a crêpe

• Dictation or test vocab: using mini whiteboards

• Nicola M Listen and draw on a plate template

• Tracey H crossword

• Français Français has a song Vous désirez, madame? and their resources cd has FCs

• Liz; ELC magnetic Shopping Game or Orchard Toys Les courses à faire or critical skills task – make your own

Any more I missed?

I'll post the relevant files in My Teaching Files which is on a different webspace. (Password needed related to where I live, in the … email me if you don't know)

5 February

First very many apologies if you turned up on Tuesday there. I sent emails to your HTs on Friday listing all the names as the other class was off too, posted it here and then thought to email your home emails as well so thought I had it covered. I realise now that not everyone is as attached to your computer and emails as I am.

Anyway this week Ann McDaid will be doing her module 1 input which will probably be no more than 40 minutes. Anyone in Module 2 should benefit from this unless they did year 4 option with Ann last year. I'll ask Laure to prepare some reading passages for pronunciation practice as an alternative.

Homework: prepare a simple game/activity on the subject of food. You don't have to explain it all in French we can go over that together. Aim is to have a bank of activities that we can share (ideally digitally so bring it on a stick or email it) Do not spend hours on this!

Homework

Webquest
Find 20 interesting facts about France and the French.
Email me them and the weblinks and I'll publish them all together!

You'll see some links on the right panel under my del.icio.us!
Click here

Homework Dictionary Exercise

Try your dictionary skills
Look up the trees below.
List your answers with gender, cross referencing (by lookoong up your answer in the French side) if necessary .
ash, beech, lime, chestnut, plane, elder

Bring a dictionary with you on Tuesday if you can!

Don't read the comments until you have done the exercise!