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Une histoire sombre

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Une histoire sombre... très sombre

Week 5

Week 1

Week 3

Week 6 +

Week 2

Week 4

PHONICS

Phonics

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Une histoire sombre... très sombre A tale dark ... very dark

Le livre - The Book

L'histoire - The Story

Le livre

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What similarities/difference can you spot between the English and French covers?

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L'histoire

Listen to the story. Do you recognise any words?

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Le poème - The poem

Les activités - Activities

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Le poème

Listen to the poem version.

Let's Check

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Les activités

Look through the poem text version of the story: 1. Underline any words you know or think you can guess the meaning of (cognates). 2. Annotate the underlined words with the English translation. 3. Pick 3 or more words to look up in a billingual dictionary (this could be an online one).

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The Poem

How did you do?

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Le vocabulaire - Vocabulary

Les activités - Activities

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une armoire a wardrobe
un château a castle
une boite a box
un bois a wood

In French, nouns have a gramatical gender. They are either masculine and use the indefinite article un before them or feminine and use indefinte article une before them.

une porte a door
un couloir a corridor
un rideau a curtain
une souris a mouse
un escalier a staircase
une salle a room

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Can you match the vocabulary?

You can scan the QR code to do this activity on an iPad.

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Can you choose the correct gramatical gender for each noun?

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Articles indéfinis - The Indefinite Articles

Articles définis - The Definite Articles

Les activités - Activities

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Articles indéfinis - The Indefinite Articles

In English, there are two indefinte articles you might use. The main one being a. The other two are an (used before nouns starting with a vowel).
In French, there are also two indefine articles: une (used before feminine nouns) and un (used before masculine nouns).
une armoire a wardrobe
un château a castle

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Articles définis - The Definite Articles

In English, there is one definte articles, the.
In French, there are 4 define articles: la (used before feminine nouns), le (used before masculine nouns), l' (used before nouns starting with a vowel) and les (before any plural noun).
l'armoire a wardrobe
le château a castle
les rideaux curtains
la souris a mouse

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Les articles - The Articles

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So far, we have looked at nouns with the indefinite article but in your poem you will need to use the definite article, too.
Click the picture to see a short video on articles in French before having a go at the activities.

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Can you change the indefinite article into the definite article?

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Les prépositions - Prepositions

Les activitiés - Activities

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In the poem, you use prepositions to describe where the nouns are in relation to each other.
dans - in derrière - behind en haut de - on/ at the top of
This video has other prepostitions you may like to use in your poem.
sur - on sous- under devant - in front of

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Can you match the prepositions to the correct picture?

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Le poème - The Poem

La tâche finale - The final task

Le vocabulaire - Vocabulary

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Le poème

Listen to the poem version.

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La tâche finale

Create your own Dans le bois, il y a ... inspired poem.
Here are some example poems from other children. Use a dictionary to find the nouns/prepositions you would like to use.

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