School: Instructions in class
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can greet different people, understand simple class instructions and ask/answer ‘How are you?’.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- The final letter of a word is often silent in French due to SFCs (silent final consonants) and SFes (silent final 'e's).
- To greet a teacher we use 'bonjour' and to greet a classmate we use 'salut'.
- Learning classroom instructions as a rhyme helps us to remember when to give the teacher our full attention.
- The verb 'être' means 'to be' or 'being'. Use the verb être with adjectives to describe people: il est heureux.
- An adjective must agree with the gender of the noun it describes; this is called adjective agreement: elle est heureuse.
Keywords
SFC - silent final consonant: silent letter (d, s, t, x) at the end of a word
SFe - silent final ‘e’ at the end of a word
Être - French verb meaning ‘to be, being’
Common misconception
To say 'and you' I use 'et tu ?'
To say 'and you' we use the emphatic pronoun 'toi'; 'et toi ?'.
Teacher tip
There are rhymes and songs in this lesson, so you might want to warm up the students' singing voices first. Perhaps singing the French oral and nasal vowel sounds.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the French words to the correct English meaning.
Hello
Hi
How are you?
And you?
Q2.Which of these is the correct form of ‘être’ (to be) for 'I am'?
Q3.Put these numbers in the correct order from smallest to largest.
Q4.Translate into English: 'Il y a cinq chiens'
Q5.Which if these translates correctly 'I am not ready'?
Q6.Match the meaning of these adjectives.
happy
worried
ill
sad
brave
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
Q1.How would you greet your teacher in the morning in French?
Q2.Match the French word to its English meaning.
ready
ill
happy
sad
brave
Q3.Which letter is silent when we say the word 'courageux'?
Q4.Which sentence uses the verb 'être' correctly?
Q5.What is the feminine form of the adjective 'courageux'?
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