Wed 26 January

Mary intro - merci!

CONSOLIDATION
nasal ON
H/W raps etc

songs: flocon papillon and j'ai un nom see post for 19 Jan.

wallwisher

mon/ma/mes

-ille see blogpost

alphabet spelling game - updated files uploaded to GLOW group in Documents


GLOW Group

NEW

Introduction to presentation of vocabulary with flashcards

old QUIA exercises

QUIZLET word flashcards for colours

MANTRALINGUA

Talking about your likes


some examples
Sandie
Julie
Bastian scroll down to Hobbies
Leon

nasal IN - to do

culture: film clip être et avoir - to do

HOMEWORK
write about what you like to do
post as a document on GLOW in HOMEWORK folder or in Comments here
a volunteer for intro Caroline and to present some new voc Mary. Merci.

Family sentences review

I have been reflecting on the sentence building activity and will upload a modified version of the words and notes to our new GLOW group.

A couple of additional things
new words le mari the husband and la femme the wife (also the word for woman)
to say my mother and father you have to repeat the my in front of father as it is a different word in French so ma mère et mon père
and you need to repeat the de in front of second noun in
le frère de Lisa et de Maggie for Lisa and Maggie's brother

Meanwhile test yourself with these phrases and sentences. You don't need to write them out unless you really want to. Just do them in your head. The answers are in the comments mais ne trichez pas!

USING mon /ma/mes
my mother
my brother
my uncle
my husband
my wife
my children
my aunt and uncle
my mother and father

my mother is called Marge
my brother is Bart
my children are called Bart, Lisa and Maggie
Homer and Marge are my parents
Marge is my wife
my husband is called Homer
my sisters are Lisa and Maggie
my baby is called Maggie

USING DE
Lisa’s brother
Maggie’s mother
Bart’s parents
Marge’s baby
Homer’s son and daughters

Bart is the son of Homer and Marge
Lisa and Maggie are Bart’s sisters
Marge’s children are called Bart Lisa and Maggie

Wed 12 January

La fête des rois the feast of the Kings or Epiphany, is celebrated in French homes throughout January.

A cake - la galette - made of puff pastry and almond frangipane contains a figurine called une fève, a bean. Whoever gets the piece with the fève is king for the day, wears a crown and chooses a queen.

Nowadays you can buy the cake complete with crown and fève in bakers' shops.
In the interest of fair play, the youngest child sits under the table as mother cuts the cake and says who each piece is for.
C'est à qui? Whose is it?
C'est à papa. It's dad's.
C'est à Tata Marie. It's for auntie Mary.
C'est à moi. It's mine.

Fête des Rois

View more presentations from Paulo Martins.

Pictures of the cake here

le roi - the king

la reine - the queen

la galette - the cake

la fève - the bean

la couronne - the crown

Chanson

J'aime la galette

Savez-vous comment?

Quand elle est bien faite

Avec du beurre dedans

Tra la la la la la lère etc

I love the kings' cake

do you know when?

when it is well made

with butter inside

tra la etc

Starters
to settle the children
to get them into the French "zone"
to get them started as soon as possible

Suggestions - will depend on your situation - is it your own class or are you "dropping in"?
a challenge, a puzzle eg 5 a day or some jumbled words
a video clip - culture, they hear some French and see some French or French speaking people
a song - or a haka - Mark Purves has an interesting blog post here
a routine - a scripted conversation, how are you, register, weather and date, bit of revision or
a prayer

La famille

intro BBC video clip 560 Bellow family

vocab p 15 of your booklet
also with audio on blog
possessive adjectives
download Simpsons powerpoint
download Happy Families cards