Lesson 2: Pencils and things in the French classroom

Display the Presentation: Class commands to remind the children of the command vocabulary that they learnt in the previous lesson, French, Year 3, In a French classroom, Lesson 1: Follow the French teacher.

Play the Pupil video: French phonics: un. Invite the children to practise the sound, watching their partner's mouth shape and listening to make sure it matches what they can see and hear on the video.

Display slide 1 of the Presentation: Classroom objects to introduce the new vocabulary for this lesson, saying or playing the audio for each item and repeating carefully several times.

Divide the class into two teams to play 'Win, lose or draw'. Invite one player from each team to stand at the front of the class and whisper an item (or show the word on the flash card instead to make it easier).

These players then have to draw the item on a whiteboard and as soon as their teammates recognise it, they put their hand up to name the item in French. The first team to both identify the item and name it in French correctly scores a point. Then, pick new players to do the next drawing.

Keep the cards from the Resource:Pencil case flashcards for the next lesson.

Activity

• Make (or encourage the children to design) labels for different classroom equipment. Do this with other home languages within the class/school, too.

• Use a class French-English dictionary to find other items the children might have in their bags and decide whether they would go in the ‘masculine’ bag or the ‘feminine’ bag.

• Get the children to name items as they use them or put them away at the end of a lesson.

• Use the Pupil videos: Phonemes – Mouth Mechanics accompanying this lesson to practise phonics pronunciation with the children.