Food glorious food

Today we start looking at food - a great topic close to everyone's heart and with lots of opportunities for background information and role playing.

Grammar required - the partitive article. There is a sheet in the grammar folder called Articles.
We also look at the construction after J'aime I like which is always followed by the definite article. J'aime les bananes.

We sang Bananes bananes bananes from French is fun pack from the BBC (Salut Serge)

I'll post the Appleworks file with the mini flashcards entitled Food mini FCs in the FOOD folder.

Online supermarket Auchandirect.fr has provided much useful information. Carrefour is another big supermarket chain.

Synergy resources to buy

Finally got round to finding the source for the dice I bought at SLF: SYNERGY
The small foam dice where you can insert your own faces is £2.75 for 2, larger one £2.75 each.
The no noise dice (red and blue foam) come with dots or figures £3.75 for 2.
The catalogue has lots of other goodies like multi sided dice, number fans, spinners, and sets of white boards A5 £9.95 for 10 incl pens or £12.95 for A4 size
tel 01243 779967 sales@synergy-group.co.uk

Tuesday 30 October

We did more on colours, did ages and where I live. Had a look at PowerLanguage CD rom from Richard Tallaron aka le Français en Ecosse. We particularly liked the French kids' voices and the songs.

I've uploaded notes on colour, age and French Christian names in case you want to give your class French names.

PS Found this on french about site in the subject of French names.

Resources

Thanks to Marie, I have uploaded her colour dominoes, colours cars and happy familes in colour.

Anne recommended SparkleBox for display material. I have alreay downloaded some stuff after doing a search for French. I also liked Dress the Bear - no words.

North Ayrshire Programme of Study for Primary French

North Ayrshire have recently posted their programme of study. You can download it from here.