Key Stage 4 French: April in France: Weather, sports, countries, holidays and 'si' clauses

Welcome to the fourth installment!

This installment explores the weather associated with April 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 avril
C’est quelle saison? / Quelle saison nous sommes?
C’est le printemps
Au printemps
Il fait doux
Il pleut / Il est pluvieux
Il y a un arc-en-ciel

Telling the temperature
Il fait combien de degrés?
Il fait dix-sept degrés
Il fait dix-huit degrés

Cities
à Bruxelles
à Fort-de-France
à New Delhi
à Nuuk

Countries
Masculine
le Groenland / au Groenland

Feminine
la Belgique / en Belgique
l’Inde / en Inde
la Martinique / en Martinique

Landscapes
Un champ
Des chevaux

Use of ‘si’ clauses
Si il fait beau, je jouerai au badminton
Si le temps est neigeux, je skierai

Sport
Jouer au badminton

Jouer au cache-cache

Jouer aux jeux de société

Jouer au Monopoly

The verb ‘jouer’ 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
A colourful classroom display illustrating three different examples of ‘si’ clauses in French

Happy teaching and learning!