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French Starter Pack CONTENTS: Introduction 1 Greetings 2 How are you? 3 What's your name? Famous people 4 Alphabet 5 Family 6 Numbers 1-12 7 Ages 8 Brothers & sisters 9 Pets 10 Colours 11 Months 12 Numbers 13 - 31 13 Birthdays 14 LDays of the week 15 Today's date 16 Weather 17 Christmas Consolidation and assessment	Part A: "Our top 5" Things that come to mind about France LANGUAGE AWARENESS: 'Say Hello to the World' Where in the World do they speak French? Start your own Language Portfolio LANGUAGE AWARENESS - what we mean when we say 'Goodbye' Extra words and fashions
	What you will learn in section 1 - see how children and adults greet each other and say goodbye Greetings in the playground at École Jacques Prévert Pupils greet their teacher at the beginning of the school day Parents meet children at the end of the school day Observe how grown-ups say goodbye.. 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.... You will see how French children and their teachers say 'Goodbye' at the end of the school day, and how children and grown-ups say 'Goodbye' at other times. Talking Points - "Where is France?" Background to studying a foreign language: find out how people cross the Channelpast and present Flashcards for your whiteboard - hear the words and see text These white-board based activities will help the class to get used to hearing, saying and responding to the new words, and help set the language in context... Back to top
ack to top	Our French Top 5 What comes to mind when you think of France?
	Ask children to list up to 3 topics that come to mind when they think of France. Pupils could take the project home and ask their family and friends as well. As a class work out your collective "Top 5". Compare with these results from a survey by the French Embassy: - the Eiffel Tower - the cockerel symbol - wine - frogs (frogs' legs) - snails (to eat) - the tricoleur flag - baguettes ("French stick" bread) - croissants see http://www.ambafrance-uk.org/-Just-4-Kids,223- and especially http://www.ambafrance-uk.org/Look-at-France-Some-important
Back to top	LANGUAGE AWARENESS: 'Say Hello to the World' 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! 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? English German Spanish French Good Morning Guten Morgen Buenos dias Bonjour 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/ Dutch Others Goedmorgen ? Make a list of all the 'hello's you can find from around the world - it might be handy one day! Back to top
Back to top	Where in the World do they speak French? 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?". MAP 1: Where they speak French in Europe MAP 2: Where they speak French in the World 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. More information about France, from French Embassy 'Just 4 Kids' web site 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. Back to top
Back to top	Start your own portfolio 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.. Back to top

LANGUAGE AWARENESS: What we mean when we say 'Goodbye'
Saying 'goodbye' to different people You say 'goodbye' to people all the time. Look around you, at people you see in your community. What do say to your friends when you part? How do you 'goodbye' your teachers at the end of school? ..and what do they say to you? What do grown-ups say when leave? 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!
Saying 'goodbye' in different languages We made a table of how you say 'goodbye' politely in different world languages. In some of them , the person is saying - 'May God look after you' The Latin word for God is 'dieu'. Can you see 'God' in any of these 'goodbyes'? English German Spanish French Goodbye auf Wiedersehen adios Au revoir In French and German , the person is saying 'Until we meet again' . In Danish, you might recognise 'farewell' - 'look after yourself' or 'Keep smiling'.....
Find out more.... You could make a display of how people say "goodbye" in as many different countries and languages as you can find. The Freelang.com website will be useful in your research. Can you find any other words that have 'God' in them, or 'Until we meet again'? .  http://www.freelang.net/expressions/goodbye.html	Danish Others Farvel ?
	For one expression - like "goodbye", this web site Freelang.net gave the students the equivalent in a whole list of languages. Click on the picture to link to the web site.
Find out about other words.... The Freelang.net web site has a growing number of expressions in its list. Here are some of the words you can look up in the list:
I love you Welcome Hello Good bye Thank you Yes No Happy birthday Merry Christmas Happy new year Congratulations Peace

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Extra words and fashions

Language is always changing. There are fashions in what you say just as much as with clothes and music. One generation said goodbye with "See you later, alligator!" - to which the other person replied, "In a while, crocodile!". A few years later, that might sound old-fashioned, but you do hear people say "See ya!" and "Later!" What do people say in YOUR community? Language evolves as people choose how to speak it. Other languages - like French - also belong to the people who communicate with them. Just like in English, some ways of saying 'goodbye' in French might sound to a French person either "OK - cool" or "a bit strange" or "that's old-fashioned, no-one says that now", or even "I don't understand what they mean" Here are some other French ways of saying "goodbye" for different people. If you have an exchange link with someone in France, see if you can find more: "Ciao" - informal goodbye to a friend "Bon nuit" - good night (off to bed) "Bonne journée" - have a nice day! "Bonne soirée" - have a good evening

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