Key Stage 4 French: September in France: Weather, sports, countries and holidays

Welcome to the ninth installment!

This installment explores the weather associated with Sepember in France and it looks at some sport and introduces four different countries with the capitals and their prepositions.

The contained vocabulary is as follows:

Weather
Quel temps fait-il?
C’est quel mois? / Quel mois nous sommes?
C’est août
C’est quelle saison? / Quelle saison nous sommes?
C’est l’automne
En automne
Il fait moins chaud
Il est nuageux
Il y a des nuages
Il fait des éclaircies

Telling the temperature
Il fait combien de degrés?
Il fait quinze degrés
Il fait dix degrés

Cities
à Amsterdam
à Génève
à Manille
à Papette

Countries
Feminine
la Polynésie française / à la Polynésie française
la Suisse / en Suisse

Plural countries
les Pays-Bas / aux Pays-Bas
les Philippines / aux Philippines

Landscapes
Le canyon

Sport and activities
Faire des randonnées

Jouer au baseball
Jouer au billard
Jouer aux quilles
Jouer au volley

Other vocabulary
Une flaque d’eau
La rentrée

Verbs followed by a preposition before an infinitive
S’amuser
Venir de faire

The verb ‘s’amuser’ in the perfect tense (a sample reflexive verb in the perfect tense

The powerpoint contains a story with questions in French with follow-up reinforcement activities and a translation quiz.

There is also an accompanying workbook which also contains the story with various different activities in the workbook.

This powerpoint contains the following materials:

Powerpoint
Accompanying workbook
Vocabulary handout with various sports, activities and countries
The verb 's’amuser’ in the perfect tense
Wordsearch on the countries and capitals with the prepositions
Battleships game worksheet in order to reinforce learning
Transcription of the listening activities
Audio file of the listening comprehension
A bingo sheet to review the vocabulary

Happy teaching and learning!