Key Stage 4 French: July in France: Weather, sports, countries, holidays and Bastille Day

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!