F2.15 clothes v21

2.15. Qu’est-ce que tu portes?

2.15 Qu’est-ce que tu portes? What are you wearing?

In this section, pupils learn the names for some clothing items commonly worn by French children. They go on to describe what people are wearing, what they like to wear, and talk about fashion. They may describe clothes by colour and/or size, extending how they can already use adjectives in French. The language introduced here will also be useful for shopping activities.

Planning your lessons

Before showing film A1 to introduce new vocabulary, warm-up by naming some

Films to see A1 - What are you wearing? B1 - Describing clothes

coloured objects and sorting them into “le” and “la” words. When children are confident with the new words for clothes, they can talk about what they are wearing (je porte ...). Then go on to look at using adjectives to describe clothes, in part B.

Part A: What are you wearing? Activities

NEW WORDS AND PHRASES un pyjama un tee-shirt * un sweatshirt un jean un pantalon un short un pull un chapeau1 une veste une robe une jupe des chaussettes (f) des chaussures (f) des baskets (f) des vêtements (m)

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Warm up

- pyjamas - T-shirt - sweatshirt - jeans - trousers - shorts - jumper - hat - jacket - dress - skirt - socks - shoes - trainers - clothes

You could play one or two of the games from Ch.2.5: “Les objets de la classe” to practise naming coloured objects. As well as talking about “le” and “la” words, you could also have a “sort the nouns race” as described in ch.2.5.

Watch film A1: What are you wearing?

Qu’est-ce que tu portes? What are you wearing? Je porte ... I am wearing ...

NOTE: plural of chapeau - chapeaux, like oiseau(x).

Talking Dictionary

* NOTE: say “un tee-shirt” with an English “T”, not a French “T”. You can also write “un T-shirt”.

15.1

❑ Watch film 15 A1: “Qu’est-ce que tu portes?” to introduce the new words. Introducing the words for clothes: (At Arnaud’s house) Arnaud is in the bathroom having a wash. Pyjamas: He is in his pyjamas: un pyjama. Back in his bedroom, he starts to get dressed. He puts on a T-shirt (un tee-shirt)*, jeans (un jean), and pulls a sweatshirt over his head (un sweatshirt). He puts on socks (des chaussettes) and shoes (des chaussures), and leaves his bedroom, ready for school. Shopping for clothes: People arrive at Roubaix town centre by tram; crowds flock to the factory outlet shopping centre. We go into a children’s clothes shop that sells end-of-range brand-name clothes at much reduced prices.