Une histoire sombre

Une histoire sombre... très sombre

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

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L'histoire - The Story

Le livre - The Book

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

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Le livre

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Listen to the story. Do you recognise any words?

L'histoire

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Les activités - Activities

Le poème - The poem

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Listen to the poem version.

Le poème

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

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Le vocabulaire - Vocabulary

Les activités - Activities

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un châteaua castle

une portea door

un couloira corridor

un rideaua curtain

une armoirea wardrobe

un escaliera staircase

une boitea box

un boisa wood

une sourisa mouse

une sallea room

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.

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Can you match the vocabulary?

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Can you choose the correct gramatical gender for each noun?

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Articles définis - The Definite Articles

Articles indéfinis - The Indefinite Articles

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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).

un châteaua castle

une armoirea wardrobe

Articles définis - The Definite Articles

In English, there is one definte articles, the.

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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).

le châteaua castle

l'armoirea wardrobe

les rideauxcurtains

la sourisa mouse

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Click the picture to see a short video on articles in French before having a go at the activities.

So far, we have looked at nouns with the indefinite article but in your poem you will need to use the definite article, too.

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Les articles - The Articles

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Can you change the indefinite article into the definite article?

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Les activitiés - Activities

Les prépositions - Prepositions

In the poem, you use prepositions to describe where the nouns are in relation to each other.

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dans - in derrière - behinden haut de - on/ at the top of

This video has other prepostitions you may like to use in your poem.

sur - on sous- underdevant - in front of

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Can you match the prepositions to the correct picture?

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La tâche finale - The final task

Le poème - The Poem

Le vocabulaire - Vocabulary

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Listen to the poem version.

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Le poème

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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La tâche finale

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