F2.14 subjects v15

Early Start French 2

2.14 Quelle est ta matière préférée? What’s your favourite lesson?

This section continues the theme of likes and dislikes - this time with school subjects. We have included five basic subjects that are taught in primary schools in many countries. (See this chapter’s “talking point” for more about the curriculum in France.) Some pupils will progress to add more names of subjects to their French vocabulary (see “extra words and phrases”). Since pupils can already tell the time and say the days in French, they can also go on to talk in French about their school timetable as part of their day-to-day routine.

NEW WORDS AND PHRASES le sport la technologie l’anglais (m) le français les maths (f) les mathématiques (f) la matière

- games (sport) - technology - English - French - maths - mathematics - subject or lesson

Films to see

A1 - School subjects A2 - What we like at school A3 - My timetable

Planning your lessons

Before showing film 14-A1 to introduce the new vocabulary, use a warm-up activity to remind children of the language they know for expressing likes/dislikes, and for places in school (from Ch.2.04, “A l’école” ). When children are confident with the new words for school subjects, you can extend it to talking about their preferences (j’aime/ je n’aime pas, etc), and also to the school timetable - a chance to re-visit telling the time from Ch.2.06, and days of the week from Early Start French 1 in a new context.

Activities

Warm up 1

You could start the lesson by playing a game from previous sections using“j’aime/ je n’aime pas” as preparation for learning the words for more “likes and dislikes”; also look at your previous work on places in school (Ch.2.04).

Quelle est ta matière préféré? What’s your favourite lesson?

Watch film A1: School subjects

Ma matière préféré, c’est ... My favourite lesson is ...

❑ Watch film A1: “School subjects” to introduce the new words. We see five lessons in French primary schools: Games: children playing hand-ball in a school sports hall - “le sport”. Technology: children make gears with a construction set; work on computers; and test electrical circuits - “la technologie”. English: teacher introduces “parts of the body” in English: children first echo the words, then point-and-say; then sing “Heads, shoulders , knees and toes” song- “l’anglais”. French: children talk about a poem: “Du ciel partout” by Alexis Haulot - “le français”. Maths: children using calculators - “les maths”

Que’est-ce que tu aimes faire à l’école? What do you like doing at school?

REMINDERS

J’adore ... (le français) I love ... (French) Je déteste ... (les maths) I hate ... (maths)

J’aime... I like ... Je n’aime pas... I don’t like ... see Talking Dictionary

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