Noël - Celebrating Christmas #1

Bonjour!

This year we will be singing a fantastic (and really catchy!) Christmas song with Year 5 at St Peter's C.E. Primary School in Newton-le-Willows which I didn't know about until Janet Lloyd (who is always on the look for fresh/creative ideas...) sent this link to our team of language assistants/teachers.

Here are the words to the song :

Noël jazz Noël, c'est comme un rythme de jazz Ça commence tout doucement. On n'entend que la contrebasse Comme le cœur d'un petit enfant. Et sur ce rythme-là: NOEL Chantez tous avec moi: NOEL Chantez tout bas tout bas: NOEL Joyeux Noël, DOU-BI-DOU-WA! Noël, c'est comme un rythme de jazz Ça commence tout doucement. On n'entend que la guitare Comme le cœur d'un petit enfant. Et sur ce rythme-là: NOEL Chantez tous avec moi: NOEL Chantez tout bas tout bas: NOEL Joyeux Noël, DOU-BI-DOU-WA! Noël, c'est comme un rythme de jazz Ça commence tout doucement. On n'entend que la batterie Comme le cœur d'un petit enfant. Et sur ce rythme-là: NOEL Chantez tous avec moi: NOEL Chantez tout bas tout bas: NOEL Joyeux Noël, DOU-BI-DOU-WA!

Game ideas #1

I'd like to start a series of post on game ideas and what games work well in primary MFL. 

I've listed 3 ideas below for games you can do with any year group, any topic, and involve zero preparation (other than flashcards or a powerpoint presentation that you're using to introduce vocabulary) 

• 'Montrez moi' (Show me)

 

It is a very simple game that we used this half term to learn and practice numbers in French from 0 - 10.

 

How we play it : 

The teacher calls a number in French and repeats it a number of times : cinq, cinq, cinq, cinq... This gives them thinking time however when they hear you saying 'Montrez moi' their thinking time is up and they have to show you the correct numbers of fingers.

Then the teacher calls 'Regardez moi' (Look at me) and count out loud and on his/her fingers to reveal the correct number. The children get a point if they got it right.

 

We have also played this game with numbers up to 20, children played in pairs and had to make up the numbers using both their 2 hands.

• Plus vite ! (faster!) : 

We used it to review previously learnt vocabulary such as colours.

 

How we played it : 

The teacher asks for a volunteer who think they can name all the items of a presentation (i.e. colours) correctly. 

Go through the slides of a powerpoint presentation whilst the child name the items. 

The next person is then asked 'plus vite?' (faster?) if they think they can do it faster than the person before them - they reply 'plus vite' (faster) 'pareil' (same) or 'moins vite' (less fast). 

The game continue until nobody can do it faster than the person before.

• Chaud/froid (hot/cold):

We played this game in KS1 to learn and practice colours

 

How we played it : 

Once you have introduced and practiced some colours send a child out of the room whilst you hide a flashcard in the room, ask the child to come back in and the rest of the class helps him/her to find the card by whispering (if 'cold', far away from the card) or shouting (if 'hot', close to the card) the colour : rouge, rouge, etc. 

What about you what games have you played lately? 

Greeting songs for primary French teaching

Bonjour!

This week I wanted to share with you my favourite 'greeting' songs for French. 

 

Songs are a great way to start off the lesson and so I've created a 'greeting songs' playlist on Youtube with my favourite ones - which will not doubt gets updated as the year go on ! 

 

Children will love the (often silly!) videos and enjoy singing (and dancing!) along. I am sure you will be hearing renditions of the songs in the playground or find yourself singing them...to yourself !

I will also be adding more playlists in the near future on such things as : colours, numbers, traditionnal rhymes, etc. So feel free to check regularly and subscribe to the playlist/channel !

 

I leave you with my favourite song :

Au revoir!

Celebrating European Day of Languages - 26th September

This is how I will be celebrating EDL with my classes throughout the week.

 

First we will be looking at the TALK TO ME video and also listening to how to say hello in different languages - both resources available from the EDL website.

We will then concentrate on French greetings used throughout the day and try to work out which one which:

 

This year our chosen theme across the network schools is flying kites inspired by the international kite flying competition from Berk sur plage, in Picardie, northern France.

To tie in with the theme we will be making kites and decorate them with French greetings in Years 3 and 4 and follow a set of instructions written in French to makes kites in Year 5 and 6. 

Also we will be reading 'Let's go fly a kite' - a simple story to learn or revise colours and numbers. 

 

All resources are available to download (for free) from the Janet Lloyd Network website  http://www.janetlloyd.net/

 

Pictures to follow !!

 

À bientôt !