F2.02 places v21

2.2

En ville

2.2 En ville Places in town

In this section pupils learn how to identify places that might be significant to children in a French town or in their home town. This is the first step towards being able to describe where you live, ask directions and give information about where places are.

Films to see A1 - Some places in French towns A2 - More places in French towns B1 - Where places are

Part A: Places in town Planning your lessons

NEW WORDS AND PHRASES le marché le supermarché le café le musée l’école (f) mon école la piscine la gare la boulangerie la pâtisserie

- the market - the supermarket - the café - the museum - the school - my school - see note 1 - the swimming pool - the station - the bakery - the cake shop

la plage - the beach

After showing the films, plan activities to familiarise pupils with a larger than usual number of new words before using them together with the structures: “voici ...” and “c’est ...”. A warm-up session on noun genders will help remind pupils that they should try to remember whether to use “le” or “la” with each of these new words. They can also revisit “voici” and “c’est”, both of which were indroduced in Early Start French 1.

Activities

Warm up

You could open the lesson by looking at nouns pupils know already, perhaps using picturecards from Early Start French 1. Can they remember whether the rabbit is “le” or “la”, “un” or “une lapin”? As before, praise children for remembering the main word, whilst gently saying the correct article - see “How French works 1”. You could talk about strategies for remembering things that work for different pupils.

Voici... [le musée]

This is [the museum]

... à [Hesdin] il y a [une gare] ... ...at [Hesdin] there is [a station]...

Qu’est-ce que c’est? C’est [le marché] What’s that? It’s [the market] see Talking Dictionary

Watch film A1- Places in town

❑ Watch film A1: “Some places in French towns” to introduce new words for places in town. The market - “Voici le marché”. This sequence shows the stalls and produce sold at the Saturday morning market in Roubaix: “Qu’est-ce que c’est?” “C’est le marché”. The supermarket - “Voici le supermarché”. We see images of a small supermarket in Hesdin: “Qu’est-ce que c’est?” “C’est le supermarché”.

Scene from film 2 A1: “Voici le marché” - the cheese stall at the Saturday market in Roubaix.

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