17. Le quiz de Radio Labo
17. Le quiz de Radio Labo - click to download mp3
Bonjour à tous et à toutes: Juliet and Jean-Baptiste have a message for Mehdi who is going on holiday to Marseille.
Un quiz sonore (A sound quiz): The presenters play a series of sound clips and contestants have to identify what type of weathercan be heard. The presenters discuss the types of weather they like and dislike.
Mme Réponse-à-tout on grammar: Malia wants to know how to say ‘It’s not cold’ in French. Mme Réponse-à-tout explains that you need two words to make a French sentence negative - 'ne' and 'pas'. 'Ne' comes before the verb and 'pas' straight after the verb - eg 'Il ne fait pas froid'.
18. Song: 'Après la pluie le beau temps'
18. La chanson: 'Après la pluie le beau temps' - click to download mp3
Song: ‘After the rain comes the sun’
See below for a video of the song including the lyrics on screen.
19. Game: Jeu de ping pong
19. Game: 'Jeu de ping-pong' - click to download mp3
Game: 'Ping-pong'
In this game, children listen to a weather phrase. They ‘bat’ it back and add a weather phrase of their own.
Unusual weather phrases: Malia asks Mme Réponse-à-tout for help with a project translating quirky weather expressions into pictures. Mme Réponse-à-tout gives three amusing expressions for Malia to think about.
Un jeu de prononciation: Juliet and Jean-Baptiste use some weather phrases to help pronunciation.
20. Story: 'Clara et l'arc-en-ciel'
20. L'histoire: 'Clara et l'arc-en-ciel' - click to download mp3
Story: 'Clara and the rainbow'
Clara’s dog, Achille, is keen to go out for a walk but it is raining and although Achille is happy to walk in rain and wind Clara is not. After some time the rain stops, the sun comes out and there is a beautiful rainbow. It looks as though Achille will get a walk after all.
Au revoir Radio Labo: Jean-Baptise and Juliet bid farewell.
Listen to all four clips as a single audio file.
Watch an animated version of the song.
document
Download the transcript/translation of 'La pluie et le beau temps' (pdf).
Curriculum guidance
This series has been designed to complement a school’s existing programmes of work for teaching French. It has been written for 9 to 11 year olds who have been learning French for one or two years. However, teachers may also find that aspects of the programmes are suitable for younger language learners.
Teacher's Notes
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