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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
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What you will learn in
film 15
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14 July - Bastille Day
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You will learn how to say the
full date in French, having learned the days of the
week in section
11, the months in
section
8, and the numbers
1-12 (section
6) and 13-31
(section
9).
You will also look at the
dates in the French calendar which are big
celebrations and public holidays. We look
particularly at festivities in the Christmas season
- there are some good web links below.
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Celebrate
a French holiday! - send an mail
card
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Uptoten.com
has lively simply animated cards for Easter,
Hallowe'en, Christmas, New Year, etc. - also
birthday cards.
You choose a card, add your
own message (up to 40 characters in French), then
give your friend's email and your own - click
'envoie'
to sendi it off via email.
Go to: http://www.cartespourenfants.com/
to try it out for yourself.
(recommended to ell-forum by Dan
Tierney, Reader in Language Education, University
of Strathclyde)
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Saint
Nicholas
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The legend is of a rich young man in third
century Turkey who gave away all his inheritance to
the poor and needy, became a bishop, and was
imprisoned and tortured by the Romans.
Nicholas was brought up as a Christian. He took
pity on a poor neighbour whose daughters could not
get married without a dowry. Nicholas crept into
the house one night, and left a gift of gold coins
in the daughter's stocking which had been washed
and was hanging up to dry by the fire. When the
secret got out, other people hung up their
stockings in the hope of similar generosity.
Nicholas eventually gave away all his money to
the poor and needy, and became a priest. As a
bishop he was imprisoned and tortuned by the Roman
emperor at a time when Christianity was
illegal.
For more information:
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Websites
on Christmas & other
celebrations
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Schools in UK and France worked together on this
project to record their traditions and celebrations
at different times of the year, and on special
days. ***HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED
http://www.european-schoolprojects.net/festivals/France/France.htm
See also:
Festivals
in France, Spain and Germany
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Christmas in
France and Canada
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Here is a really rich link for Christmas info -
in a choice of English or French.
The official description is:
"Christmas Traditions in France and in Canada.
Canada and France offer you a summary of the social
and communal customs, family celebrations, and
religious ceremonies that have become part of their
diverse Christmas traditions."
http://www.chin.gc.ca/christmas/noel.htm
The website is one result of an international
cultural project linking France and Canada - it has
particularly interesting sections on how French
customs migrated to New France, and comparing
Francophone and Anglophone traditions.
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French
celebrations
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The French website 'ChezLorry' has a great
section on special festivals, "Les
Événements de l'Année", with
colouring, games, etc. You can ONLY see each part
at the time of year coming up to the event.
http://chezlorry.ca/Events.htm
There are sections on:
- Halloween
- Noel
- St. Valentin
- Pâques
- Fête des Mères (Mothers
Day)
- Fête des Pères (Fathers
Day)
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"Les Événements
de l'Année" on http://chezlorry.ca/Events.htm
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Search on 'Yahoo! France' for 'Jours de fete'
gives a list of pages about Christmas, Easter and
Hallowe"en - all in French:http://fr.search.yahoo.com/
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Bastille
day - 14th July
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The story that has been handed down over the
years is that the workers of the Faubourg St.
Antoine broke into the keep, killed the Governor
and the chief representative of municipal authority
and then continued to dismantle the Bastille stone
by stone to release the prisoners.
Modern historians have suggested that the
workers' main aim was to secure arms and that the
French Revolution had been gradually gathering
momentum over the previous two years.
However, the events of the 14 July had very
important consequences: foreign regiments that the
King could have used for a counter revolution were
withdrawn from the neighbourhood of Paris;
political authority was transferred to the people
and the red and blue colours of the city of Paris
were merged with the white of the Bourbons to form
the tricolour flag of the new France.
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