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KS2 French: 1. Les animaux et les couleurs (Animals and colours)

1. Quiz: Radio Labo's top five pets

1. Quiz: Radio Labo's top five pets - click to mp3

Bonjour à tous et à toutes: Radio Labo is live on-air and Juliet and Jean-Baptiste introduce themselves and greet everyone. They have a special message for Angèle whose birthday it is today.

Le top 5 des animaux de compagnie: Jean-Baptiste and Juliet share the results of a survey to find out the top five favourite pets.

Mme Réponse-à-tout on grammar: Jamal wants to know why the colour red comes after the animal in 'poisson rouge'. Mme Réponse-à-tout explains that in French all colour adjectives come after the noun.

2. Song: 'Toutes les couleurs du monde'

2. La chanson: 'Toutes les couleurs du monde' - click to mp3

Song: 'All the colours of the world'

See below for a video of the song including the lyrics on screen.

3. Pronunciation: 'ien' and 'in'

3. Pronunciation: 'ien' and 'in' - click to mp3

Mme Réponse-à-tout on pronunciation: Mme Réponse-à-tout has an amusing sentence to help children practise the pronunciation of ‘ien’ ('chien') and ‘in’ ('lapin').

Then Mme Réponse-à-tout explains to Jamal the meaning of the colloquial phrase 'Je donne ma langue au chat'.

4. Story: 'La soirée deguisée'

4. L'histoire: 'La soirée deguisée' - click to mp3

Story: 'The fancy dress party'

Angèle is having a fancy dress party and everyone is to come dressed as an animal. A group of her friends discuss the animals they might dress up as, but by complete coincidence they all come dressed the same.

At the end pause and ask children to explain, in English, what the story is about.

Listen to all four clips as a single audio file.

Watch an animated version of the song.

the transcript/translation of 'Les animaux et les couleurs' (pdf)

Curriculum guidance

This series has been designed to complement a school’s existing programmes of work for teaching French. It has been written for 9 to 11 year olds who have been learning French for one or two years. However, teachers may also find that aspects of the programmes are suitable for younger language learners.

Teacher's Notes

Further information and guidance on using the content.

the Teacher's Notes (pdf)

 

 

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