37. Microtrottoir: children talk about their spare time
37. Microtrottoir: children talk about their spare time - click to download mp3
Bonjour à tous et à toutes: Juliet and Jean-Baptiste have a special message for all their listeners - 'Bonnes vacances!' ('Have a good holiday!')
Un micro-trottoir – a street interview: Pause the programme at the start of the street interview and explain that the interviewer is finding out if children like video games.
Mme Réponse-à-tout on grammar: Jawad has heard that there are different ways to ask questions in French. Mme Réponse-à-tout suggests, where possible, Jawad turns a statement into a question: so 'Tu as un portable' becomes 'Tu as un portable?' with rising intonation at the end to indicate it is a question.
38. Song: 'Tic Clic Clak'
38. La chanson: 'Tic, Clic, Clak' - click to download mp3
Song: ‘Tic, Clic, Clak’
Give everyone in the class a line from the chorus. When children hear their line they wave it in the air: 'Sur la tablette de ma mère/Ou de mon grand frère/j’écoute de la musique/Vraiment fantastique!/J’aime les dessins animés/mais je préfère jouer'.
See below for a video of the song including the lyrics on screen.
39. Madame Réponse-à-tout
39. Madame Réponse-à-tout - click to download mp3
Mme Réponse-à-tout on pronunciation: Jawad finds it hard to pronounce the difference between ‘u’ and ‘ou’ as in 'tu joues'. Mme Réponse-à-tout comes to the rescue with some suggestions and rhymes to help with this tricky area of pronunciation.
40. Story: 'Antoine et la tablette'
40. L'histoire: 'Antoine et la tablette' - click to download mp3
Story: 'Antoine and the tablet' (computer)
Antoine has fallen out with his friend and consoles himself by playing games on his tablet. Suddenly he hears a voice coming from the tablet. ‘The voice’ asks him all sorts of questions - eg 'Do you like video games?'
In the end Antoine gets fed up and goes downstairs where he enjoys peace and quiet with his father.
Listen to all four clips as a single audio file.
Watch an animated version of the song.
document
Download the transcript/translation of 'La technologie' (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
7. Les loisirs
The topic is hobbies.
8. Les vêtements
The topic is clothes.
9. L'école
The topic is school.
