Year 5 - Le Rwanda

FRANCOPHONE ART WEEK

Lundi 24 octobre 2022 LO: to write a list poem in French.

Today, as part of Francophone Art Week, we are going to be learning more about our partner country of Rwanda.

Watch the video and note any nouns that you see.

Watch the video and note any nouns that you see.

LO: I can read and understand an extended text in French.

Did you notice any of these?

Le rwanda

Lundi 24 octobre 2022 LO: to write a list poem in French.

Nouns

Let's gather together a collection of singular nouns, in English to start with.

Lundi 24 octobre 2022 LO: to write a list poem in French.

Choose six to ten of your nouns and see if you can find their translations in the dictionary. They will start with either...

la

le

both mean the

feminine

masculine

Lundi 24 octobre 2022 LO: to write a list poem in French.

You might also notice this way of saying 'the'. When do we use this third version?

l'

before: a, e, i, o, u, y

Lundi 24 octobre 2022 LO: to write a list poem in French.

Le Rwanda

Rwanda, le pays aux mille collines !

Now let's create a list poem, using the nouns with 'the' in front of them, in French.

les

Lundi 24 octobre 2022 LO: to write a list poem in French.

Le Rwanda

Rwanda, le pays aux mille collines !

Challenge: how could you turn the singular nouns in your list poem into plurals?

Lundi 24 octobre 2022 LO: to write a list poem in French.

Let's perform our poems together.