My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
Welcome to the seventh installment!
This installment explores the weather associated with July in France and it looks at some sport and introduces four different countries with the capitals and their prepositions. It also explores the festivities of Bastille Day in France.
The contained vocabulary is as follows:
Weather
Quel temps fait-il?
C’est quel mois? / Quel mois nous sommes?
C’est juillet
C’est quelle saison? / Quelle saison nous sommes?
C’est l’été
En été
Il fait très chaud
Il fait un temps superbe
Telling the temperature
Il fait combien de degrés?
Il fait trente-cinq degrés
Il fait quarante degrés
Cities
à Ankara
au Caire
au Cap
à Kingston
Countries
Feminine
l’Afrique du sud / en Afrique du sud
l’Égypte / en Égypte
la Jamaïque / en Jamaïque
la Turquie / en Turquie
Landscapes
Le désert
Festivals
Le jour de la Bastille
La Révolution française
Sport and activities
Faire de la natation
Other vocabulary
Une valise
Des feux d’artifice
Un défilé
Verbs followed by a preposition before an infinitive
Commencer à faire
Décider de faire
The verb ‘pouvoir’ 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!