City of Edinburgh French Early Level

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City of EdinburghFrench Early Level
Saying my name
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Early Level Significant Aspects of Learning

• Use language in a range of contexts and across
  learning
• Develop confidence and enthusiasm to communicate
  using the language being learnt
• Begin to develop an awareness of other countries,
  cultures and languages
• Listen and join in with simple songs, stories and
  rhymes
• Explore and recognise patterns and sounds of
  language through listening, watching and playing
• Understand, respond to and say simple greetings
  and personal information (e.g. name)
• Repeat and understand simple familiar language
  from a familiar source
• Actively take part in simple daily routine
  language
• Participate in familiar games including outdoor
  learning
• Begin to explore resources to support my learning
  e.g. picture dictionaries

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Vocabulary
Names There are three ways of asking someones
name in French. Use whichever you feel most
comfortable with. Tu tapppelles
comment? What are you called? Comment tu
tappelles? What are you called? Comment
tappelles-tu? What are you called? Je
mappelle... I am called...   Cest qui? Who
is it? Qui est-ce? Who is it? Cest... It
is...
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Tu tappelles comment?
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Comment tu tappelles?
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Comment tappelles-tu?
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Je mappelle
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Cest qui?
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Qui est-ce?
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Cest
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Embedding the language

• You can use this when you are doing the register
  in the morning and ask pupils to say their name
  in French.

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Sample activities
You will find a bank of sample activities which
you can use to practise the vocabulary in the
classroom. This is not a prescriptive list of
activities and you can use or adapt them to suit
the needs of your class.
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Activité 1

Tu tappelles comment?Clapping game
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Tu tappelles comment?Clapping game

• All pupils sit in a circle and clap time to the
  question Tu tappelles comment? (or whichever
  version of the question you are using with your
  class). They do this whilst also passing a toy
  around the circle.
• Pupils clap the question 3 times and whoever is
  holding the toy when they stop must then say
  their name in French e.g. Je mappelle Tony.
• The class can then all answer, Bonjour Tony!
  and continue with the game.
• To say lets continue its On continue!

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Activité 2
Têtes cachées, pouces levés
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Têtes cachées, pouces levés

• This is, heads down, thumbs up!
• In a circle or at desks, pupils lie down or put
  their heads down on the table and lift their
  thumbs up. You can amend this according to the
  class.
• 3 pupils circulate amongst them, choose a pupil
  and put their thumbs down.
• Once time is up, the 3 who were chosen stand up,
  the whole class ask qui est-ce? or Cest
  quiand they then have to say which pupil chose
  them by saying Cest Paul (for example).
• The pupils in question can then say Oui or Non
  depending on if they are correct or not.
• Whoever guesses correctly then gets to choose for
  the next round.

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Activité 3
Puppet play
Bonjour!
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Puppet play

• Teacher can perform a puppet play for pupils with
  two puppets
• (sock puppets for example). Here is an example
  script
• Puppet 1 (Pokes head out from behind teachers
  back) Bonjour! Bonjour tout le monde!
• Class Bonjour!
• Puppet 1 Ça va?
• Class Ça va!
• Puppet can then ask pupils their names and Ça va?
  
• Puppet 2 then appears
• Puppet 2 Bonjour tout le monde!
• Class Bonjour!
• Puppet 1 Qui est-ce?
• Class can then ask puppet 2 what their name is.
• Puppet 2 Je mappelle ___. Et toi? Tu
  tappelles comment? (to puppet 1. (get class to
  repeat the question).
• Puppet 1 Je mappelle.
• Can the repeat Ça va?s and finish with Au Revoir
  and a song.

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Activité 4
Statues Musicales
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Statues Musicales!

• This is exactly the same as musical statues but
  with a French twist!
• Play some French music and pupils dance.
• As soon as the music stops, they must freeze and
  then turn to the person nearest to them and have
  a short conversation which could include
• Bonjour, Ca va?, Tu tappelles comment, je
  mappelle___ and au revoir!
• This could be much shorter and just use the name.
  

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Songs and videos!
You will find a bank of sample songs and videos
which you can use to practise the vocabulary in
the classroom. This is not a prescriptive list
of songs and you can use or adapt them to suit
the needs of your class.
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French Greeting song (French and English)
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BBC Primary French clip and song
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Bonjour Salut song
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Ratounet Comment tu tappelles song
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Au revoir!