Lesson 2: Olympian opinions
Learning how to use two verbs together to give opinions about sports; justifying opinions using a range of adjectives; revisiting the negative construction ne + [verb] + pas.
Learning objective
To express sporting preferences using an opinion verb, a second verb and an adjective.
Success criteria
I can listen for specific details.
I can apply language detective strategies to work out meaning.
I can give positive and negative opinions.
I can justify opinions using adjectives.
Before the lesson
Check all images, videos, links and presentation slides are suitable for your class.
- Presentation: Verbs for sports.
- Presentation: Sporting opinions.
- Presentation: We love sport!
Whiteboards and pens (one each).
- Stick the Resource: Who is it? (see Print in advance) around the classroom.
Check all images, videos, links and presentation slides are suitable for your class.
- Presentation: Verbs for sports.
- Presentation: Sporting opinions.
- Presentation: We love sport!
Whiteboards and pens (one each).
- Stick the Resource: Who is it? (see Print in advance) around the classroom.
Lesson plan
Display slide 1 of the Presentation: Verbs for sports and hand out whiteboards and pens (one each).
Display slide 1 of the Presentation: Verbs for sports and hand out whiteboards and pens (one each).
Make presentation full-screen
Ask the class to remind you when the verbjouer - to play, is used with a sport, and when the verb faire - to do, is used. (The verb jouer is used when the sport involves a ball and the verb faire when there is no ball.)
Working in pairs, ask the children to decide whether je joue or je fais is the correct verb for each sport shown. Take feedback then click to reveal the answers.
Optional: Display slide 2 and ask the children to write phrases for each sport using the following structure:
Je joue/fais + au/du/de la + [name of the sport].
Take feedback and click to reveal the answers.
Display slide 1 of the Presentation: We love sport.
Display slide 1 of the Presentation: We love sport.
Make presentation full-screen
In pairs, ask the children to match the opinion verbs with their meanings in English.
Take feedback then click to reveal the answers.
Display slide 2. The class reads and listens to the sentences. Ask the class what they notice about the verbs jouer and faire in these sentences (the verbs stay in their original infinitive form because they come after another verb).
In pairs, ask the class to translate the sentences into English. Take feedback then click to reveal the English translations.
Display slide 3 and explain that the slide shows a mystery sentence about an opinion of a sport. Challenge the class to work out the sentence using just the first letter of each word. Take feedback and click to reveal the answer.
Extracting key information
Display slide 1 of the Presentation: Sporting opinions.
Guess my sentence
Display the Presentation: Guess my sentence.
Activities
- Use the Pupil videos: Phonemes – Mouth Mechanics accompanying this lesson to practise pronunciation of phonics with the children.
Answer the register giving an opinion in French about a different sport each day.
Research famous French sports people and make a collage with their name and the sport they do. Write the sports in French.
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