MFL Year 4

YEAR 4 FRENCH Being a Linguist Year 4

REFERENCE

Collins online French/English bilingual dictionary

FRENCH PHONICS

We have been looking at different sounds of French and how they are written. These links may be useful for further practice:

key sounds and practice (adapted from Rachel Hawkes.com)

Léon le caméléon song

CURRENT WORK – June 2021 – LES SPORTS

This last half term is all about sport! We will be looking at some sporting events and learning how to say different sports in French.

Euro 2020 Football – Euro 2020 info KS2

Euro 2020 Educandy game

Le Tour de France Tour de France 2021 Y4

Link for more information on the Tour de France

and see the route in 3D here

Les sports – saying which sports you like and dislike SPORTS Y4 2021

Educandy game to practise these sports

La Fête Nationale – le 14 juillet

14 July French National Day Y4

Follow this link for a quiz about le 14 juilllet and this link to find out more about the Eiffel Tower. Do you know when and why it was built?

Follow this link to see the 14th July fireworks at the Eiffel Tower!

Follow this link for the story ‘La Tour Eiffel a des ailes’

Les Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques

Our sporting summer continues with the Olympic and Paralympic Games, from 23rd July – 5th September. Follow this link for more information: Olympics 2020

Educandy game: new Olympic/Paralympic sports

PREVIOUS WORK MAY 2021:

FAMILY/DESCRIPTIONS

Ma Famille song (by Alain le Lait)

Il a les yeux rouges… song (by Alain le Lait)

Les yeux – Y4 describing my eyes and those of others

Educandy games:

recognising family members – ma soeur etc
dans ma famille … describe your family
describing eyes
describing hair AND eyes

FRENCH ALPHABET

We have learned that in French the alphabet sounds are said differently than in English. We have been practising spelling out our names and those of our family members so that a French person would understand. Here are some resources we have used:

La chanson de l’alphabet – as done in class

Alphabet song by Alain le Lait

Another alphabet song – do you recognise it?

Listen to the alphabet

L’alphabet avec Didou – clip

Alphabet games

WORK COVERED EARLIER THIS YEAR:

ANIMALS

Pets Educandy game

Describing pets using colour adjectives – Educandy game

Ours Brun – we have been reading this story and you might like to follow this link to hear it being read aloud

Au magasin des animaux Practising more adjectives in masculine and feminine forms: educandy game

Les parties du corps: song by Alain le Lait. We have been having fun making up and describing some fantasy animals using language practised in this video

FOOD /THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR

J’ai faim, je mange… song (by Alain le Lait)

La chenille qui fait des trous story/clip

La chenille qui fait des trous educandy link

Another clip!

J’aime les fruits – song (by Alain le Lait)

Educandy game – fruit and vegetables

Les fruits Educandy game

Au cafe Educandy game

MONTHS, DAYS & NUMBERS

Les mois de l’annee song (by Alain le Lait)

Months Textivate link – games