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

Welcome to the third installment!

This installment explores the weather associated with March 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 mars
C’est quelle saison? / Quelle saison nous sommes?
C’est le printemps
Au printemps
Il fait beau / il fait un beau temps
Il fait plus chaud / Il commence à faire plus chaud
Il fait du vent / Il est venteux

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

Cities
à Dublin
à Madrid
à Montréal
à Riad

Countries
Masculine
le Canada / au Canada

Feminine
l’Arabie Saoudite / en Arabie Saoudite
l’Espagne / en Espagne
l’Irlande / en Irlande

Landscapes
Les collines

Using ‘quand’ in a sentence
Quand il fait beau, je fais du vélo

Sport and using the preposition ‘en’
Jouer au tennis

Faire du vélo
Est-ce que tu fais du vélo? Oui, j’en fais

Faire du cerf-volant
Est-ce que tu fais du cerf-volant? Oui, j’en fais

The verb ‘être’ 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!