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Early Level French Learning Activities

Interactive presentations, stories and activities.

Learning Colours

Colours with Camembear                French Colour walk

Colour Stories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvZ7NacMkkg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX1Hj1BHFKE

Ours Brun Ours Brun Story (Brown Bear, Brown Bear – PowerPoint with sound files)

ours brun ours brun colours
Ours Brun Ours Brun happy-families

 

Learning Numbers

 

Number Stories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpaKZ0Y6Tms

 

General Resources

Lapin is Hungry Story 
A collection of great stories in French (varying levels of language)
Peppa Pig Episodes 

Christmas

French Resources

Advent calendar with French songs

Christmas in France- Information and quiz

Colour and number Christmas activity

Printable Christmas resources

More printables

Growstorygrow-Christmas stories: Le Père Noël, Les Vêtements de Père Noël, L’histoire de Noël

French Christmas Songs

Jingle Bells (Vive le vent)

Silent night (Douce nuit)

il est né le divin enfant

Gaelic Christmas resources

Gaelic Christmas song

snowman song

winter song

Santa claus song

Halloween

 French Resources

 

Vieille sorcière,                                                         Vieille sorcière,
Vieille sorcière,                                                         Vieille sorcière,
Que fais-tu ?                                                               Que fais-tu ?
Que fais-tu ?                                                               Que fais-tu ?
Je mange une citrouille.                                        Je mange une grenouille.
Je mange une citrouille.                                        Je mange une grenouille.
Crique, craque, croque.                                          Couah, Couah, Couah
Crique, craque, croque.                                          Couah, Couah, Couah

Halloween prepositions

Halloween directions

Halloween Quiz

TES Halloween resources

European Day of Languages- September 26th

Resources for European Day of Languages- 26th September

Posterthe-rights-of-the-language-learner

Effective resource to generate a class discussion about creating a positive ethos around language learning.

Cultural Treasure Hunt and Quiz

Resources from PowerLanguage Schools

Choose French or Spanish Cultural Treasure Hunt, questionaire and interactive quiz or if you have time do both.

6 QR codes for printing and placing around the school,  questionaires to complete during the cultural hunt and a follow on interactive quiz:

spanish_culture-hunt_QR-codes

Spanish culture-hunt_questionnaire-for-printing

spanish culture-hunt_quiz

French culture-hunt_QR-codes

French culture-hunt_questionnaire-for-printing

French culture-hunt_quiz

You can also login to https://powerlanguage.school/ to find these resources.

(If you do not have login details please contact gwen.mccrossan2@argyll-bute.gov.uk )

Click on PLANNERS

PLS4 Block 4- French Culture Hunt

PLS4 Block 4-Spanish Culture Hunt

You will need an iPad per group for this culture hunt. You also need to download a QR reader from the App store. These codes can then be read by the camera on the iPad. Hide the QR codes around the school. When the children find the code, they scan it and then watch the associated video. They can then answer the questions on the questionaire. If you do not have ipads, the videos can be accessed on PowerLanguage Schools. The activity is the completed with the interactive quiz.

 

Introduction to Gaelic- Scotland’s own language.

Go to Go!Gaelic to download the sound enabled Gaelic Introductions PowerPoint presentation

Compare languages

ECML (European Centre of Modern Languages) website for comparing animal noises and idioms in many different languages. There are also many other language related activities available on this site.