This week was mainly a continuation of Week 1, but with a couple new things added to the mix.
Here’s what we did and/or talked about:
- The Pledge of Allegiance in French
- Animals and pets – what we have or want to have
- Culture: 💋 La bise – the French greeting kiss (socially distant version!)
- Practiced introductions & small talk with partners
- Learned new weather terms
- Counted and added dice up to 20
- Phonics: French vowel sounds with 3D letters
- Described famous people/characters with complete sentences
- Practiced fruit vocab and made a mini booklet
- Sang songs and played a game
French Culture Note: La bise 💋
Learning culture along with a language is vital! Since these videos are in English, I muted them and narrated a little of each one in French. You might enjoy watching in English. The 3rd video I didn’t show, but it’s very interesting! French people explain many different perspectives and ways of practicing la bise. I usually show the first 4-5 minutes to my high school classes. (Subtitled in English.)
Phonics: French Vowels
I introduced the vowels this week. Each student wrote their name using chunky 3D letters for the vowels, then practicing the sounds. They listened to the names of fruits with correct and incorrect vowel sounds, just to draw attention to which vowel makes which sound. We also listened to the alphabet song in French.
Numbers
We use numbers a LOT in daily conversations: time, money, schedules, budgets, dates, etc. We’re working on 1-10 mostly, but I also introduced 11-20. Practice counting everything this week! Count by 2s or 5s. Then count backwards. This helps identify random numbers easily without needing to count up to it before being able to say it.
Weather
I like this video a lot! Not only is it spoken by a native speaker, but you have to listen to the sound of the weather to identify it. It creates direct associations in the brain – without using any English to translate!
Questions: Les Fruits
Here’s another fruit vocab video. We worked on saying these phrases with fruit:
Qu’est-ce que c’est = What is this?
C’est = this is…
Ce n’est pas = This is NOT…
C’est une banane. Ce n’est pas une orange. This is a banana. It is NOT an orange.
Review Games & Activities
If you’re familiar with characters from Disney’s Frozen, Harry Potter, and Ironman/Spiderman, then here’s a quick Kahoot! review game to practice words for boy, girl, intelligent, student, teacher, etc. Continue working with the quizlet sets below. Kids love the Match & Gravity games on Quizlet.
KAHOOT! – Famous characters
Quizlet: 🍎 Greetings, introductions & short sentences
Quizlet: ☂️ The weather
