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Nouns and Grammar Ninja

Grammar - Parts of speech

What is a noun?

a naming word? yes, a proper noun like Mary, Ayr, Scotland

a thing? an object? yes, a concrete noun like table, handbag, flower, sandwich

But that's not always a helpful definition, as it doesn't cover abstract nouns like feeling, love

Anything that can stand alone with "a" or "the" in front of it

like a thought, the idea, a time,

Many words can be more than one part of speech depending on how they are used in a sentence eg I brush my hair with a brush.

Here's a recent news story. Find the nouns

A woman who dialled 999 to report the theft of a snowman from outside her home has been branded "completely irresponsible" by Kent Police.
The force said the woman, from Chatham, thought the incident required their involvement because she used pound coins for eyes and teaspoons for arms.

Try Grammar Ninja on the whiteboard to practise the following parts of speech:

Verb including infinitive and auxiliary verb

Conjunction and but or nor and subordinating conjunctions because after unless although if when

Pronoun including personal pronouns, reflexive pronouns, demonstrative pronouns and the interrogative pronouns which? who? whom? whose? what?

Adjective including possessive, comparatives and superlatives, (they also class numbers as adjectives though they can be nouns)

Noun including proper nouns

Article a the

Adverb including not in the default examples

Interjections oh etc

Grammar Ninja can be played online in English using the default sentences but you can also download it and make up your own sentences in any language to use offline ideally on a whiteboard.Work in teams and compete for best score/time - shown at the end of each round.

Let the pupils make up their own sentences allowing them to decide what parts of speech to use.

Easy level is nouns and verbs only

About Nouns in French - see course material
gender
number
article

Christmas - Noël

Noël va arriver!


image created in ComicLife

Here are some great ideas for a French Christmas!

make mini bûches de Noël - Christmas logs with mini rolls and writing icing of Noël and decoration!
This year's icing (from Tesco) seemed thinner than before. Here is a photo from 2 years ago.


Christmas present role play
practised giving and receiving presents with any objects to hand using Quiz Quiz Trade
discussed any further language that might be needed
made the presents and labels- craft
roleplayed - pick a label at random, give present to that person, who chooses the next label.
see comic above

download files here - clicking will download
explanation
present template
example
j’ai un cadeau pour toi I've a present for you
tiens voilà! here you are
merci! thank you
qu’est-ce que c’est? what is it?
quelle surprise! what a surprise!
ce que je voulais just what I wanted
c’est génial! it's lovely
de rien it's nothing
je t’en prie you're welcome
joyeux Noël merry Christmas


Advent calender 2010 Calendrier de l'avent 2010 designed for young learners
each day becomes live in turn

Chants de Noël - Christmas carols from Quebec
advent calendar Christmas karaoke
no 6 mon beau sapin
no 12 Petit Papa Noël
words to carols

Make flashcards, dominoes
http://www.esl-kids.com/flashcards/christmas.html

Hangman - le jeu du pendu
good for alphabet and dictionary work

Nativity for whiteboard from Northumberland

Reindeer craft animated instructions with audio. Click on the tree to begin.

Easy craft activity - butterfly tree or table decoration

About Christmas in France from the BBC

links to other activities on my delicious bookmarks

JOYEUX NOËL!

Wed 15 Dec

Summary of important points so far

Language input
Since there are varying levels of previous knowledge, participants can work on their own with the notes and the sound files on cpd blog
Pronunciation - decoding of French words to help both teachers and pupils

Theory (so far)
reasons for teaching/learning a language including benefits to L1
moving towards less teacher led and more collaborative learning
comprehensible input
non threatening learning situation
activities that are fun as well as useful
use of technology to aid learning
finding an audience for pupils' work


Today
Wallwisher homework > posters
prayers
writing
photos continued
Grammar Nouns - Grammar Ninja
Christmas

Wallwisher - online pinboard for HOMEWORK

Wallwisher is an easy to use online pinboard - great for collaborative work and for homework.

You double click to get a post it on the board.
You can add a link, too, to an image, audio, webpage

Here are some examples
globalconnect

European Day of Languages what language can you say hello in?


In the meantime try posting to these three walls below
If you want to add sound go to Shtooka and type in the word and copy the URL into your post it. It's all very straightforward - honest!






I have heard that Wallwisher has been unreliable, buggy of late
Pindax is an alternative worth investigation.

Day 3 Wed 8 December -updated

Photos with speech bubbles using Comic Life

Pronunciation continued (worksheet done in pairs)

We went over the accents on page 3 of pronunciation notes.

Numbers continued- some games 1 2 or 3, Buzz, Hide the thimble, snakes and ladders, pelmanism, drawing on back, fast fingers, fishermen's net (described in course material)

Knowing numbers is really useful - phone numbers, age, date, time, prices

Alphabet - spelling your name. This is the first thing you'll be asked after you tell your name to a French person! Comment ça s'écrit? how is that written?

Alphabet song

A B C D E F G
H I J K L M N O P
Q R S T U V double V
Q R S T U V double V
X X i grec Z ok

ça c’est l’alphabet français


We stopped about here because of the weather. What is below we'll do next week. Bring felt pens if you can next week

Christmas Presents Activity - les cadeaux de Noël - see Christmas post
transactional and social language
giving and accepting a present, saying thanks and expressing appreciation

Language
basic
c'est pour toi
tiens voilà
merci
c'est …

practise with small objects or cards using QQT

discuss other things you might want to say in such a situation

go on to the Christmas present activity

Homework

I have added more sound files to the other blog http://frenchcpd.posterous.com which match (more or less) what is in your course material, for those who want to practise.

I've added alphabet, numbers and name (page 3)

HW Please listen to "Name" http://frenchcpd.posterous.com/name and write a few similar sentences on page 3 or if you prefer as a comment to this post.

Je m'appelle Kay McMeekin. Mon nom de famille est McMeekin et mon prénom est Kay. Mon mari s'appelle David et mes parents s'appellent Lena et Cliff. J'ai deux enfants qui s'appellent Laura et David et un chien qui s'appelle Holly. Voilà!