Resources for Primary Schools (French) - some picture links are not yet active

1 All about me	2 Songs and games	3 Celebrations	4 Portraits	5 The four friends	6 Growing things	7 All aboard	8 Pocket money	9 Tell me a story
10 Our sporting lives	11 Carnival of the animals	12 What's the weather like?	13 Healthy eating	14 I am the music man	15 On the way to school	16 Beach scene	17 The Return of Spring	18 The Planets
19 Our school	20 The world about us	21 Then and now	22 Out and about	23 A visit to a café	24 What's in the news	Interactive Whiteboard Activities	Powerpoint Presentations	Useful Links

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	Years 3-4
	Unit 1: Moi (All about me)
1 Quia	Practise the numbers 1-10.
2 Quia	Play battleships to practise words for greetings and introductions.
3 Link	Sing a song to practise greetings. Aaron Prevots, Southwestern University - Georgetown, Texas, USA. See website link below for more songs.
4 Quia	Matching game on ages.
	Unit 2: Jeux et chansons (Games and songs)
1 Quia	Games to practise the numbers 1-21.
	Unit 4: Portraits (Portraits)
1 BBC	Game and activity for practising colours and the numbers 1-5, provided by the BBC.
	Unit 5: Les quatre amis (The four friends) - See also link at bottom of page
1 Quia	Can you match the French words with the correct pictures of pets?
	Unit 6: Ça pousse! (Growing things)
1 Quia	Matching games for key vocabulary.
2 Quia	Matching games to help pupils understand the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk' in French - this is included in full at the end of unit 6 of the QCA scheme of work for KS2.
3	TaskMagic text activities for part of the story of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' from the QCA scheme of work.
	Unit 7: On y va (All aboard!)
1 Quia	Can you match the pictures to the weather sentences?
2 Quia	Put the sentences about the weather in the right order to reveal the hidden picture.
3	Task Magic games on the weather.
4 Quia	Can you win a million euros? You will need to know the weather words and to collect a weather map from your teacher to play this game. (Weather map is included in SmartBoard activity - see below).
5 Quia	Can you put the days of the week in the correct order?
6 Quia	Visit this website to find out how each day of the week got its name and to compare the days of the week in different languages.
7 Jeu	Fantastic memory game on transport. Languages Online, Australia.
	Unit 9: Raconte-moi une histoire (Tell me a story)
1 Quia	Match numbers in multiples of 10 (10-100).
2 Quia	Matching activity to practise key vocabulary from Sleeping Beauty song/story.
3 Quia	Can you put the Sleeping Beauty song in the right order?
	Unit 10: Vive le sport (Our sporting lives)
1 Quia	Can you match the 8 sporting activities to the correct pictures?
2 Quia	How well do you remember the days of the week? Put these activities into the right sequence beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday.
3 Bananas	Turn over the cards to find matching sentences.
4 Quia	What should you do to stay healthy?
5 Quia	Play battleships (healthy lifestyle questionnaire).
	(See also the healthy eating work included below.)
	Unit 11: Le carnaval des animaux (The carnival of the animals) - see also three links in the list at the bottom of the page.
1 Quia	Match the pictures of the animals which appear in this musical composition with the correct French words.
2 YouTube	Le carnaval des animaux - l'éléphant.
3 YouTube	Karneval der Tiere - le cygne.
4 YouTube	Karneval der Tiere - l'aquarium.
5 Quia	Win a million euros if you can match the animals to the right habitats and descriptions.
	Unit 12: Quel temps fait-il?
	Begin by revising weather vocabulary, see unit 7 above and the interactive whiteboard activity below.
1 Quia	Qu'est-ce qu'il te faut, quand il pleut? What do you need for different types of weather? Match the pictures.
2 Quia	Quiz to revise the numbers 1-40. You can get up to 30 points. Who can get the highest score?
3 Quia	Try this quiz on temperatures. The highest possible score you can get is 15.
	Years 5-6
	Unit 14: Je suis le musicien.
1 Quia	Practise key vocabulary about music and musical instruments.
	Unit 19: Notre école (Our school)
1	Task Magic games to practise classroom instructions.
2 Quia	You can win a million euros if you know the French for items in the classroom.
	Unit 20: Notre monde (The world about us)
1 Quia	Columns game on nationalities.
	Unit 21: Le passé et le présent (Then and now)
3 Quia	Where do you live?

Activities for a Smart Board Interactive Whiteboard

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	Year 3 Science: Magnetism. Framework objectives: O3.2, O3.3, O3.4, L3.1, L3.3.
	Year 3 Healthy eating and teeth. Fits QCA scheme of work units 10 and 13. Framework objectives : O3.2, O3.3, O3.4, L3.1, L3.3, L4.4, O5.2.
	Years 3-4 Weather. Fits QCA scheme of work units 7 and 12. Includes a game to win a million euros! Framework objectives: O3.2, O3.3, O3.4, O4.1, O6.2, L3.1, L4.1, L4.3.

PowerPoint Presentations for Teachers

Links for Primary Teachers

DfES	KS2 Languages Framework. Download the full framework. Very useful overview of the learning objectives for Years 3-6.
QCA	NEW! Download a scheme of work for French (non statutory). Choose from drop-down list. The 2000 Scheme of Work has been re-written and extended. Units 1-12 are for Years 3-4, units 13-24 for Years 5-6.
	Nacell website: national advisory centre on early language learning (includes some free French materials).
	The Teacher Resource Exchange (TRE) is a moderated database of resources and activities created by teachers. Resources are free to use and you can also add your own resources to share with other teachers. Resources by Wendy Adeniji are particularly good, as an example, look at her resource entitled 'French songs for primary children'.
Chansons	Collection of really good French songs to use in the classroom.
ICT ideas	Excellent ideas for using websites to promote language learning. Click on 'Useful ICT ideas, effective language lessons'. For example, how to revise colours, gender, clothes, French sounds through the use of song, see review of Belette website. The song 'Dans sa maison, un grand cerf' could be used to introduce pets, it would be quite easy to sing additional verses where other animals arrive to hide from the hunter. It also shows pupils how to do actions to accompany the song and would be easy to learn.
Chez Mimi	Computer games, teachers' notes, vocabulary from Channel 4 and NGfL Scotland.
WGFL	Warrington Grid for Learning - Free primary resources including a free French and German course by Janet Lloyd (AST) with PowerPoint presentations, support with new KS2 framework, further links and ideas.
	Lots of exercises written to be used with TaskMagic, you will need to buy a site license to use this at school, pupils can download and use this software at home as well. These exercises are for use with units 1-11 of the KS2 scheme of work.
SMART	Free e-learning resources.
	Primary French website from the BBC (includes songs, games and dialogues).
	Free primary resources from Merryman.
	Free teaching materials. Bleu! Blanc! Rouge!
	Pupils make their own language puzzles on-line.
Link	Free downloadable templates to make your own interactive tasks e.g. Tetris and Memory Game Maker. Also includes some ready-made activities and songs. Languages Online, Australia.
Carnaval	Information about 'Le carnaval des animaux' by Camille Saint-Saёns.
Link	Automatic translation into English of the above page.
NME	Free download and video of parts of 'Le carnaval des animaux'.
Resources	Additional resources and ideas for exploiting 'Le carnaval des animaux'.
Four friends	Wendy Adeniji's PowerPoint presentation, suggested activities and flashcards to help teach 'The Four Friends' project (TRE Resource).
Animals	Le fermier dans son pré. Resources and song created by Rebecca Cole. Links to unit 2 of the QCA scheme of work.
RM	Free resources hosted by RM. Worksheets, ideas and tips.
Wkshts	Enchanted learning – labelling worksheets for many different topics e.g. days of the week, clothes, body parts, furniture in the different rooms, time, compass points, dairy foods, fruit, members of the family, parts of the tooth, the house etc. Answers are provided.
Songs	Songs for teaching French.

© R. Lloyd April 2005
The IWB activities and pupil games on this page have been written by R. Lloyd (Head of MFL at Sutton High Sports College) for primary school teachers and pupils. They are intended for normal classroom use and are not to be used for commercial purposes.