Key Stage 2....

The following topics are aimed at KS2.

Topic 1 – “Food and Drink with additional French Market activities” - As featured in Scholastic's Junior Education Magazine (June 2007)

Topic 2 – “Clothes and Weather” - New! (July 2007)

Each topic includes a variety of structured card games, flashcards and worksheets with full teaching notes and ideas for classroom activities. All material is available electronically to allow the teacher to view and print material as and when required. Full printing assembly and playing instructions are given for each game. There is also an audio visual CD to complement each of these topics.

Topic 1 – “Food and Drink with additional French Market activities”

“Food and Drink with additional French Market activities” Printable resource CD;

This CD-Rom contains printable resources for KS2 pupils. The topic is divided into 2 parts.

Part One:  The first part deals with the different food and drink consumed at breakfast, lunch and for snacks. The time in French is introduced in association with these meals. Pupils practise using du, de la, d’, des using both card games and worksheet exercises. Children will enjoy activities and games which range from buying bread and croissants at the baker’s to ordering drinks and ice-cream in a café. They will learn the days of the week through playing a Menu game which revises all the meal-times vocabulary in the topic.

Part Two : Following on from the introduction to fruit and vegetables in KS1 French Market.  Money and weights are introduced as well as some extra food vocabulary.

Contents of part one

  • Make your own structured full colour card games for group activities which encourage speaking and listening skills (all small games suitable for groups of up to 8).  Games include:- 
    1. Food and Drink matching pairs
    2. Food and Drink lotto game
    3. Clock game – fill the clock with the correct day’s menu.
      Click here to see a sample

  • Pupil’s workbook.  23 pages of worksheets containing black/white line drawings and exercises related to learning the vocabulary around mealtimes, likes and dislikes of food and drinks, how to ask for some food or drink using Je voudrais and by changing le, la, les to du, de la, des. How to ask for food and drink in a café, the introduction of money, time practise (hours only), and days of the week practise.
    Click here to see a sample

Contents of Part two:

  • 16 * A5 size large additional colour Market flashcards of vegetables and fruit. Also suitable for viewing electronically.
    Click here to see a sample

  • Make your own structured full colour card games for group activities which encourage speaking and listening skills (all small games suitable for groups of up to 8).  Games include:- 
    1. Market matching pairs.
      Click here to see a sample
    2. Market shopping game – collect the items from your list to fill your shopping basket.
    3. Kilo game – a game which practises asking by weight for a selection of food items covered in both Part One and Part Two.
      Click here to see a sample
  • Pupil's workbook.  19 pages which practise changing le,la,les to un,une,des in the context of vegetables and fruit in the Market, likes and dislikes, a picnic activity, introduction of several forms of verb manger, introduction of verb acheter and practise using du, de la ,des. Money and weights practise is also featured.
    Click here to see a sample

Teaching aids

  • Book of full teaching notes to accompany the worksheets containing more ideas for whole class activities based on rôle play in the café, at the baker’s, recipes, together with suggestions for related stories and songs that fit with the topic.
    Click here to see a sample

  • Illustrated original story  “Nico et le chaton” to read in class.

  • Templates for art /craft activities and for displays or rôle play including large clock with moving hands, baguette and croissant shapes for baker’s shop rôle play, ice-cream template, illustrated days of the week rhyme sheet, café story template.
    Click here to see a sample.

 

 

“Food and Drink with additional French Market activities” audio-visual CD;

This audio-visual CD complements the printable resources CD

CONTENTS

Colour picture games with sound: 

  1. What do you eat for breakfast?  Click here to see a sample
  2. What’s for lunch?
  3. Choose a snack
  4. Order a drink in a café

9 minutes duration

Topic 2 – “Body, Actions, Clothes and Weather”

“Body, Actions, clothes and Weather” printable resource CD

This CD-Rom contains printable resources to make a wide range of class activities suitable from KS1 upwards. The workbook is aimed at KS2.

The topic begins at KS1 by teaching the vocabulary for parts of the body and actions through the use of the printable full colour ACTION TEDDY FLASHCARDS and ARLEQUIN the puppet together with appropriate traditional action songs and rhymes. There are team activities such as “Pin the tail on the Donkey” and “Make a Teddy with clothes” using the templates provided.

The topic gradually develops into KS2 clothing and weather theme as vocabulary and grammar is introduced for boy’s and girl’s clothing, coloured clothes, and clothing for different situations and weather through appropriate activities, songs and games and corresponding worksheets and story. Easier activities are included for KS1 pupils with full teaching notes.

 

Contents

  • 40 * A5 size large colour flashcards of Actions, Clothes and Weather to print or view electronically
    Click here to see a sample

  • Make your own structured full colour card games for group activities to encourage speaking and listening skills. (All small games are suitable for groups of up to 8).  Card games are sub-divided into CLOTHES games and WEATHER games (with some overlap):

Clothes games include:

1.    Clothes matching pairs

2.    Clothes picture lotto

3.    Clothes with Weather word-lotto

4.    Holiday game – be the first to fill the suitcase with the clothes on your list


Weather games include:

1.    Daily Weather game – learn the days of the week

2.    Seasonal Weather game – learn the months and seasons

3.    Large weather dominoes

  Click here to see a sample of part of a game

 

  • Pupil’s photocopiable workbook KS2

24 pages of related worksheets which practise possessive pronouns, and how to describe clothing according to size and colour and shopping activities using euros.

Click here to see an example

 

Teaching Aids 

  • Teaching notes to cover all activities, games and worksheets. Notes contain full lists of all materials required to carry out particular tasks and details of where to locate them in the CD-Rom.
  • Many colour templates to use in group/team activities including a puppet to assemble, large model teddy bears to print and make with their own cut-out paper clothes for a boy and a girl. There is the traditional “pin the tail on the donkey” game to assemble and a wolf mask to cut out and colour for use in a singing game. Also included is a Weather Spinner to print and make and a bird template for “Alouette” .
  • Story with pictures “Nico et Sophie vont aux magasins” – story explores language required for shopping for school uniform. May be printed or viewed electronically.
  • Recommendations of readily available published action songs and rhymes and songs and rhymes for clothes and weather for use with the activities.

 

  “Clothes and Weather” audio-visual CD

This audio-visual CD complements the printable resource CD.

CONTENTS

  Colour picture games with sound:

  1. Identify boys and girls clothing

  2. Learn the colours of the shirts then test yourself

  3. Put the names of the clothes together with the correct colours.

  4. Clothes with weather – identify the correct clothing for the type of weather

    Total running time 19.03 mins.

 

Ó M A Connor 2005