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Alors on danse,

The beginning of the year with all my classes means working on pronunciation and using language in the classroom.

To brush up on our pronunciation, we use the very good PowerPoint produced by Rachel Hawkes and do some practice from the Flé phonétique website.

I enjoy using songs in my classroom and as someone mentioned Stromae "Alors on danse" and that it could be linked with a phoneme lesson, I thought that Year 10 would enjoy it.  Here is how the lesson went:

I played the song as they entered the classroom.  Gave them the lyrics cut out and they had to put them in the right order.  Then we looked at the lyrics and did some sound discrimination-  Find as many words as you can with the sound- a / eu/  ou/ ille etc.  They worked quite well and were able to recognise the sounds studied in the previous lesson.  

They were keen to work out the meaning of the words in the song.  I asked them to look for 5 words (their own choice) in the dictionary-  When finished, they had to share their findings with other students so that they learnt from each other.  We then explained the song in English and everyone left the room singing!!!

Next time, we will revise the present tense, we will try to recognise all the verbs in the present tense in the song and work out how to recognise irregular verbs when using the dictionary.                                            

Alors on danse (couper)

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The lyrics can also be found here:

Le Petit Chaperon Rouge

Year 8 have been working on "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" from the wonderful Northumberland grid for learning website.

So far, we have learnt the perfect and imperfect tenses to help us understand the story.  We have also revised adjectives.   We have worked on phonemes and how to pronounce different words. 

In the lesson, we are going to concentrate on how the story is told and work out the way you can introduce new ideas.

1- Look at your booklets from pages 4 to 7 and read with a partner, concentrate on the pronunciation looking at the sounds:

EU- OU- OI- AN Find words with thes sounds in the text

On page 4-  Which words are important for introducing new ideas?

On page 5- Comment dit-on  "he wanted"?-  Using the  dictionary which verb is it in the Infinitive

  Comment dit-on "as soon as possible"?

On page 6- Which words are you finding difficult to understand-  With a partner work out the meaning and check with 2 other students before checking in the dictionary.   Give yourself a mark on the work that you have done so far!

On page 7- Find a verb in the infinitive, in the present tense, in the past tense and in the immediate future-  Check with partners.  How did you do?

See how much you have understood by doing the following exercise:

Download Chaperon

Le son "ui"

Can you pronounce the sound "ui"?  Practise with other words.

How many do you know with this sound?

The sound "QU"

See if you can pronounce these two letters.  Make a list of the words, you know with these sounds...

Le son OU

See if you can pronounce these two letters.  Make a list of the words, you know with these sounds...

Le son "oi"

Do you know how to pronounce these two letters.  Practise and think of other words which have this sound.