25. Qu'est-ce que tu aimes faire le weekend?
25. Qu'est-ce que tu aimes faire le weekend? - click to download mp3
Bonjour à tous et à toutes: Juliet and Jean-Baptiste greet everyone. They have a special message for Clément who is going tospend the weekend with his grandparents.
Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire le week-end? (What do you do at the weekend?): Juliet, Jean-Baptiste, Angèle and Mehdi discuss what they like to do at the weekend (listen to music, read comics, play with their dog and make cakes).
Mme Réponse-à-tout on grammar: Daisy has a question about adverbs and wants to know if it is right that most adverbs in French end in '-ment'. Mme Réponse-à-tout gives her some examples: 'vraiment', 'calmement', 'simplement', 'seulement'.
26. Song: 'Amis pour la vie'
26. La chanson: 'Amis pour la vie' - click to download mp3
Song: ‘Friends for life’
Play the song and ask children to listen out for activities they are familiar with.
See below for a video of the song including the lyrics on screen.
27. 'En' et jeu de créativité
27. 'En' et jeu de créativité - click to download mp3
Mme Réponse-à-tout on pronunciation: Daisy asks for help with the nasal ‘en’ sound in 'lentement'. Mme Réponse-à-tout suggests she tries holding her nose to make this French sound.
Un jeu de créativité (Creativity game): In this game Jean-Baptiste asks children to complete a sentence. He gives them one or two words to start the sentence and Angèle and Mehdi have to complete it by adding just three words. To make it even harder each word has to have ‘en’ or ‘an’ in it.
28: Story: 'Ah, les adultes!'
28: L'histoire: 'Ah, les adultes!' - click to download mp3
Story: 'Oh, those adults!'
We follow a week in the life of Clara who is always busy doing something. On Monday she plays her guitar; on Tuesday she makes a cake; on Wednesday she watches a video game. But her parents find her pastimes very noisy and complain. On Sunday, Clara is quietly reading a comic. Her mother wants to know if Clara is all right as she is so quiet. Clara feels she can’t win!
Listen to all four clips as a single audio file.
Watch an animated version of the song.
document
Download the transcript/translation of 'Les loisirs' (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
More from this series
6. Le sport et les jours de la semaine
The topics are sports and days of the week.
8. Les vêtements
The topic is clothes.
9. L'école
The topic is school.
