2. Mon Collège
Objectives
In this unit you will learn how to:
Say how you get to school
Discuss the subjects you are studying this year
Talk about your timetable
Give your opinion about your favourite day of the school week
Describe your school
Talk about activities you do during interval
Discuss your school uniform
Make comparisons with a French school
Read a story set in a French high school for enjoyment
Comment vas-tu à l'école?
Linguascope - Beginners - La Vie Au Quotidien - Les Transports
Quizlet - Les Moyens de Transport
Education Perfect - Les Moyens de Transport (means of transport)
ALLER - Learn the 6 forms of this common irregular verb
Discuss in pairs how you get to school
Giving opinions about means of transport
Qu'est-ce que tu fais comme matières?
Video - pronunciation of the school subjects
Linguascope - Beginners - La Vie au Quotidien - Les Matières
French To Go 1 p44 - Subjects
Quizlet - practise school subjects
Education Perfect - Les Matières scolaires
Pictionary - draw and guess / Charades - mime and guess
ÉTUDIER (to study) - memorise the conjugation - EP practice
Kahoot - étudier
APPRENDRE + le, la, l', les - EP practice
FAIRE + du, de la, de l', des - extension - EP practice
Presentation - Faire du ... - extension - Work in pairs to do the translation on slide 5
Quizlet - school subjects + étudier, apprendre and faire
Blooket - étudier, apprendre, faire
L'Emploi du Temps
Study the French timetable below. What differences do you notice to your timetable? How many subjects do they do?
Compare your timetable with that of others in your class and with the French students' timetable
Mon Emploi du Temps - fill in your timetable in French
Education Perfect - talking about the school day - En première heure / en deuxième heure / en troisième heure / en quatrième heure / en cinquième heure (en dernière heure)
Presentation - Emploi du Temps
Information gap pair oral activity - Fill in the missing information on the timetable
Revision
Les Jours de la Semaine
Education Perfect - the days of the week
Song to revise the days of the week
L'Heure
Linguascope - En Plus - L'Horloge Interactive - to review time
Education Perfect - telling the time
Quizlet - Quelle heure est-il? / Blooket
Kahoot - 12 hour time / 24 hour time
Baamboozle - Quelle heure est-il? - in two teams
French To Go 1 p48-50 Ex 1-3 Time
French to Go 2 p15 - p17 Telling the Time
Dominos - L'Heure
Learning Apps - Time
Tu aimes les sciences?
Chanson - Les matières
French To Go 1 p45-7 Likes and Dislikes
Education Perfect - how to give your opinion of certain subjects with supporting reasons
Tricolore 1 p98-99
Give your opinion of subjects using j'aime / je n'aime pas ... parce que je pense que c'est ... PARCE QUE ...
Discuss in groups what you think of your subjects, which are your favourite and which are your least favourite
Education Perfect - Beginners Unit 8 Liking and Disliking school subjects - Listening and Reading
Match-up Exercise about school subjects and opinions
Education Perfect - Beginners Unit 8 Liking and Disliking school subjects - Writing and Speaking
Key Vocab
C'est intéressant - It's interesting
C'est ennuyeux - It's boring
C'est amusant - It's fun
C'est difficile - It's hard
C'est facile - It's easy
C'est utile - It's useful
C'est inutile - It's not useful
Le prof est sympa / gentil - The teacher is nice
Le prof est stricte - The teacher is strict
Il y a trop de devoirs - There's too much prep
Je suis forte / bonne en ... - I'm good at ...
On fait un tour du collège?
Presentation of Woodford campus
Education Perfect - describe the places around our school
Il y a / Il n'y a pas de - memory game adding on what places there are in the school
UN - UNE - DES - a / some
NOTRE / NOS - our
Adjectives are really useful to help you describe the buildings and places at school.
Brainstorm any adjectives you can think of which describe places around the school (Mentimeter)
Video - ADJECTIVES - masculine and feminine forms
Video - POSITION OF ADJECTIVES
Write 10 sentences in French saying what buildings we have at the college and using an adjective to describe each one - eg) Il y a une grande piscine. (Nous avons = we have) Notre gymnase est moderne
Quizizz - Au Collège
Chasse aux trésors - find your way around the school looking for clues
Que fais-tu pendant la récré?
Brainstorm activities you do at Woodford
Education Perfect - how to say what you do during break times at school
Presentation Read what others have written about our school
ÉCRIRE - (to write) an example of an - RE verb (irregular)
LIRE - (to read) / DIRE (to say, tell) other irregular RE verbs
Bamboozle - écrire, lire, dire
Linguascope Beginners - L'Alimentation - Les Snacks
Speaking practice - talking about what you do during interval (sentence builder)
Interview each other to see who has the most interesting break and on which day
Write about what you do during break times at school
Quizlet - Une journée au collège (extension - focus on ON- we)
Task: Padlet Timeline - Class padlet about a typical school day
Comment est ton école?
Interview about your school. Practise discussing your opinion of school with a classmate
Watch the video on the left. Find the words in the gaps as you listen.
Mon Uniforme Scolaire
Describe what you are wearing today at school
Education Perfect - saying what you think about school uniform
Positive or Negative opinions?
Give an opinion about your uniform
Intercultural Reflection
Education Perfect - French Schools
French To Go 1 p52 Culture
What differences have you observed between a high school in a French speaking country and Woodford?
Would you like to attend school in a French speaking country? Why? / Why not?
Quizlet School timetable (le collège / le lycée / les noms des classes)
Read about the Education System in France
Le Lycée Blaise Pascal in Lyon, France
