Learning objective
- To greet someone and introduce yourself in French
National curriculum
Languages
Pupils should be taught to:
- Listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding.
See link: National curriculum - Languages - Key stage 2.
Differentiation
Pupils needing extra support: Work only with greetings Bonjour and Au revoir. They can rehearse introducing themselves with je m’appelle… but without using any questions to ask others.
Pupils working at greater depth: Children should be encouraged to use alternative greetings and to experiment with using both questions (Et toi ? / Comment tu t’appelles?) to begin to make more authentic dialogue. They could investigate common French children’s names to change their identity.
During the week
These are suggestions to remind the children of the French vocabulary they have learned in this lesson so they don’t forget everything before the next lesson:
- Greet the children in the classroom, corridor or playground every day using Bonjour !
- Get the children to use Bonjour or Salut to answer the register.
- Make up a rap/song sequence of Bonjour, Salut, Au revoir – can they say it back, with gestures?
- Keep your talk puppet handy in the classroom/role play area, in case the children think of other things they would like to say (or have found out from home).
- Display on the classroom wall the speech bubbles from the Activity: Greetings speech bubbles and add any other language greetings as you collect them in class.
