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

Welcome to the eighth installment!

This installment explores the weather associated with August 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’été
En été
Il fait très chaud
Il fait un temps superbe
Il fait du soleil / Il est ensoleillé
Il y a une sécheresse

Telling the temperature
Il fait combien de degrés?
Il fait trente-sept degrés
Il fait quarante-trois degrés

Cities
à Abu-Dhabi
à Canberra
à Dubaï
à Seoul
à Sydney

Countries
Feminine
l’Australie / en Australie
la Corée du sud / en Corée du sud
la Guadeloupe / en Guadeloupe

Plural countries
les Émirats Arabes Unis / aux Émirats Arabes Unis

Landscapes
Une île

Sport and activities
Courir (conjugated in the present tense)
Jouer au football
Jouer au basket

Other vocabulary
Une phare
Avoir soif
Maigrir

Verbs followed by a preposition before an infinitive
Arriver à faire
Continuer à faire

The verb ‘s’en aller’ in the simple future 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 'être’ in the future 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!