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Une histoire sombre

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Une histoire sombre... très sombre

Phonics

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Le livre - The Book

L'histoire - The Story

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

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Le livre

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

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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Une histoire sombre... très sombre

Le poème

Listen to the poem version.

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Les activités

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Let's Check

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).

How did you do?

The Poem

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Les activités - Activities

Le vocabulaire - Vocabulary

Une histoire sombre... très sombre

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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 salle a room
une souris a mouse
un bois a wood
une boite a box
un escalier a staircase
une armoire a wardrobe
un rideau a curtain
un couloir a corridor
une porte a door
un château a castle

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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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Les activités - Activities

Articles indéfinis - The Indefinite Articles

Articles définis - The Definite Articles

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une armoire a wardrobe
un château a castle
In French, there are also two indefine articles: une (used before feminine nouns) and un (used before masculine nouns).
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).

Articles indéfinis - The Indefinite Articles

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la souris a mouse
les rideaux curtains
l'armoire a wardrobe
le château a castle
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).

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In English, there is one definte articles, the.

Articles définis - The Definite Articles

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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sur - on sous- under devant - in front of
This video has other prepostitions you may like to use in your poem.
dans - in derrière - behind en haut de - on/ at the top of

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In the poem, you use prepositions to describe where the nouns are in relation to each other.
Can you match the prepositions to the correct picture?

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Le vocabulaire - Vocabulary

Le poème - The Poem

La tâche finale - The final task

Une histoire sombre... très sombre

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Le poème

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Listen to the poem version.

La tâche finale

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

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