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Ch.1:
Salut! -
Greetings
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Early
Start French 1: CONTENTS
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French
Starter Pack
CONTENTS:
Introduction:
1
Greetings
2
Goodbye
3
Ça va?
4
What's your name?
Famous
people
4a
Alphabet
5
Colours
6
Numbers 1-12
7
Ages
8
Months
9
Numbers 13 - 31
10
Birthdays
11
Days of the week
12
Today's date
13
Pets
14
Brothers & sisters
15
Consolidation / assessment
16
En classe
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What you will learn in
Film 1
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You will see how French
children and grown-ups greet each other when they
meet, and learn how to greet people yourself in
French.
You will see the start of the
day in a French school, and find out about
French
giants....
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LANGUAGE
AWARENESS: 'Say
Hello to the World'
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Saying
'hello' to different people
You say 'hello' to people all the time. Look
around you, at people you see in your community.
- What do say to your
friends when you meet them?
- How do you greet your
teachers?
- ..and how do they say
hello to you?
- What do grown-ups say
when THEY meet?
Write a page for your
Language
Portfolio about what
you notice. Be a Language Detective - you
are beginning to find out the importance of
language and how we use it in our lives!
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Saying
'hello' in different
languages
We made a table of how you say 'hello' politely in
different world languages. What do they mean? Can
you see any patterns?
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English
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German
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Spanish
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French
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Good Morning
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Guten Morgen
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Buenos dias
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Bonjour
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Find
out more....
There are 2,796
languages in the
world! Use the Internet to find out how people say
'hello!' in other countries.
A web site called 'Say
Hello to the World' plays you a sound recording
so you know how to pronounce the greeting for each
language. It gives some other useful phrases, and
links to basic facts about each country - but start
with France!
http://www.ipl.org/youth/hello/
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Dutch
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Others
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Goedmorgen
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Make a list of all the
'hello's you can find from around the world
- it might be handy one day!
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Where
in the World do they speak French?
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As you learn to speak French,
you'll be able to talk to most of the people living
in France, who speak French as their
everyday language - though 1 in 6 has a parent or
grand-parent who came from outside
France.
French is also the first
language of many people in parts of neighbouring
countries:
3.5m in the southern half of
Belgium
including the capital, Brussels;
Luxembourg;
1.2m in Switzerland (around
Geneva).
There is more about this in
Early Start French Continuation Pack 2,
Ch.2.1
"Où habites-tu?".
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MAP 1: Where they speak French in Europe
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MAP 2: Where they speak French in the
World
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Across the Atlantic, there
are 7.5m French-speaking Canadians in
Québec - about 1/4 of the population of
Canada; French is the main language in Caribbean
islands like Haiti, Martinique and
Guadeloupe,and the former prison colony of
Guyane, now famous as a rocket
base.
French remains the main
language of over 5m Africans in many countries of
North and West Africa; in the Indian Ocean
like Madegascar, and in the Pacific like
Tahiti.
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More
information about France, from French Embassy 'Just
4 Kids' web site
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The 9th most spoken
language
French is one of the most widely learnt second
languages in the world - it is the first or second
language for over 220 million people (making it the
9th most spoken language).
One reason is that France
attracts so many tourists. It is the most visited
country on earth, way ahead of the USA, Spain,
Italy and Britain.
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Start
your own portfolio
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Assessment &
recording
On the CILT
Primary languages website
you can now find an electronic version of the pilot
European Language Portfolio which can be used as a
photocopiable record of achievement for Primary
pupils learning languages plus a teacher's guide to
using the Portfolio. This is potentially very
useful as a record of achievent to pass on to the
pupils' next teacher. You are free to download the
documents and use them with your own
pupils.
Find out more about starting
a Language
Portfolio on this
special page..
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Giants
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The "giants" of North France
are a recurring theme in the video, appearing in
every title sequence and in many of the sections.
They are a living and popular tradition, with new
giants being created every year. The custom has
strong roots in religious festivals and in folk
lore and traditional tales and legends.
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From the video title
sequence:
the two giants of the small hilltop town of Cassel,
"Reuze Papa" and his "wife", "Reuze
Maman"
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The giant "Tutor" on a
night-time outing
in his home town of Steenwerck, near
Lille
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How to make a
giant
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The framework that goes underneath the giant
"Tutor"
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Why
the giant needs to be very light
The giants are not real
living people! There are two ways of carrying a
giant about:
- - having a person - or
several people - inside, to carry it, and make
any movements, e.g. "dancing" to the music, or
waving a hand;
- - pulling it along on a
trolley.
Giants used to be made of
wickerwork, with a papier-maché head. Today
all sorts of lightweight but strong modern
materials are used, such as aluminium mesh and
polystyrene.
These may also be easier for
children to work with.
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For more
information:
www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/giants.htm
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