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Numbers and Age
This week Y3 learned how to say how old they are, working really hard to emphasise the “ahhh” sound in “quel âge as-tu” ! Y4, 5 and 6 learned to count to 31, and did some Maths in French. I’m so...
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Mother’s Day
Today we looked at adjectives, and started to learn the verb etre (to be)… so that we could make French Mother’s Day cards. If you want a surprise on Sunday, look away now! In Year 4 we had a really...
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Dates & Determiners
In Y3 we explored the definite and indefinite article, and when we would use this type of determiner. We compared and contrasted the French determiners with their English counterparts, and realised...
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Les poissons d’avril
Today we made April Fish ! It’s a French tradition on April Fools Day: children make paper fish to sneakily stick on people’s backs. They then run away & shout “poissons d’avril” ! Y4 have...
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Je voudrais and personal descriptions
In Y3 we learned to use the phrase “Je voudrais” ( I would like), and made some fabulous hexagon minibooks! In upper KS2 we learned how to describe hair and eye colour – look at the fantastic...
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Dictionary skills and Wanted posters
In Y3 we learned how to use a bilingual dictionary. We looked at how the dictionary was structured, and how it uses colour to help you find the right section. It has all the words in French first in...
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Learning to use “mais” and making Lego minibooks
In Y3 we learned to use the word mais (but) in a sentence – we played quiz quiz trade , revised how to say we adore or déteste something, then wrote some fab sentences ! In Y4 we skyped with...
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Guess Who & Lego People!
Year 4 had such a fun lesson today ! We played Guess Who for the whole lesson, practising our French speaking and listening. First of all, we had a practice game amongst ourselves, then at 9:45 Madame...
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C’est, le petit chaperon rouge & more Lego !
In Y3 we learned how to use the phrase C’est ( it is). We watched a cartoon in French – the story of the hare & the tortoise ( le lièvre et la tortue). We then drew pictures of some of the...
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Playground games, la famille et aussi…
In Y6 we played French playground games in the sunshine to celebrate the end of SATS week. We played boules, la marelle ( like hopscotch, but with slightly more complicated rules) and beret. Beret is a...
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Possessive adjectives!
In Y4 and Y5 we learned to use the possessive adjectives mon, ma and mes – they all mean my! Mon is used for masculine nouns, ma is used for feminine nouns and mes is used for plural nouns – listen to...
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Fashion disaster or fashion designer?
We continued our work about clothing in UKS2, and linked clothes with adjectives so that we could describe them. Y4 and 5 designed 2 outfits each – one they’d love to wear, one which would be a total...
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Euro 2016
We have all been getting a bit excited about Euro 2016 – not least because it is in France this year !! This week we have practised our French phonics and have learned how to pronounce the names of the...
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Snails!
The time came at last for Y6 to have their final French lesson with me – and as a reward for all their hard work and general awesomeness, Miss Dring let us have a French picnic. Y6 had really loved...
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Feeling Sporty?
Upper KS2 learned the names for sports in French and spotted a lot of cognates ! Then they talked about which sports they liked / disliked and gave reasons using parce que (because). In Year 4 we...
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sportswear and first contact!
In Y3 we learned class room instructions and played “Jacque a dit” which is just like Simon Says! Then we learned a song about instructions to the tune of 3 Blind Mice – listen to Mrs Wellings’ class...
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Le Verbe avoir
In Y5 we started learning to conjugate our first whole French verb! We made verb spiders and started to learn a French verb rap by DJ Delf ! Have a practise at home : https://youtu.be/_Ii3PAIixKk Sadly...
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Still no Skype
Sadly Skype wouldn’t work again this week, so Y5 recorded the song they have learned so that we can send it to Madame Le Calvé. https://youtu.be/Es8uV4uN6Go We also practised our Avoir rap !...
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Les feux d’artifice!
In UKS2 we practiced colours and adjectival agreement whilst learning about French fireworks. We played a “human fruit machine ” game, writing sentences describing fireworks, trying to guess which...
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ETwinning Visit from École Gambetta Cambrai
What an amazing French week have had at Worsbrough Common! Two teachers from our ETwinning partner school, Madame Le Calvé and Madame Do, received Erasmus Plus funding to spend a week shadowing...
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