Intent
At St Thomas’ CE Primary School, we believe that all children have the right to experience the rich educational, social and cultural benefits which come from learning a foreign language.
Our aim is to ignite and develop a love of language learning in our pupils during their time with us, which will equip them to progress confidently to the next stage of their schooling and indeed throughout their whole lives.
We strive to ensure that our Modern Languages curriculum is accessible to all, so that social disadvantages, ethnicity or disability do not impact any child’s ability to thrive in their Modern Languages education. We aim to promote the development of a positive attitude to different cultures, a respect for oneself and tolerance of others.
Through engaging and enjoyable activities, we provide the children with high quality listening, speaking, reading and writing experiences within our chosen language: French.
At St Thomas’ CE we embrace culture and diversity and are privileged to have children at our school who speak languages other than English. Each term we celebrate a different language that is spoken by children in our school, allowing all the school community to show respect for each other’s languages and cultures. Please check out the EAL page for links to the Language of the Term.
EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES 
Each year on 26th September people throughout Europe celebrate all the languages spoken across the world and here at home. Follow the links below for some fun and fascinating activities!
Official European Day of Languages website
Hello to all the children of the world song
Some basic phrases in LOTS of languages! Click on each one to hear
Say ‘Hello’ in many different languages!
COUPE DU MONDE DE RUGBY 2023
The Rugby World Cup is taking place in France from 8th September to 28th October.
Follow this link for updates in French
EYFS/Year 1
Year 2
Bonjour and welcome to French at St Thomas’! We aim this year to teach a range of French topics while having lots of fun! The emphasis strongly on spoken French and we will learn songs and rhymes which we hope you will share at home. Below are links which you may find useful.
Greetings
Bonjour, Bonjour! (Alain le Lait)
Comment tu t’appelles?, What is your name? (Basho & Friends)
Colours
Wordwall games:
Can you match all 10 colours?
educandy games:
Match the French to the colours / French and English
languagesonline games:
Les couleurs
Practise colours (Titounis)
Colours song (Titounis)
Numbers
Wordwall game: 1-10
educandy games:
Les nombres 0-10
Les nombres 11-20
Numbers 1-9 (Monde des Titounis)
Song 1-10 (KidsTV123)
languagesonline games:
1-10 en Francais
Un, deux, trois nous irons au bois (Traditional song performed by Laviedeo)
Numbers song to 20 (Alain le Lait)
Days and Months
Les mois – We love this song! Songs to practise MONTHS (Alain le Lait)
Les jours de la semaine Songs to practise DAYS (Alain le Lait)
educandy games:
Months of the year
Days of the week
languagesonline games:
Months of the year
Days of the week
Days of the week practise of DAYS (Titounis)
Lundi matin (Titounis)
Parts of the body
Wordwall games: game 1 match the body parts game 2 spin the wheel
Les parties du corps (Titounis)
Tête, épaules, genoux et pieds (Titounis) A familiar song – but in French!
J’ai un gros nez rouge… song
Jean petit qui danse (Arnaud Mathonet)
Savez-vous planter les choux? (Titounis)
Un petit pouce qui danse (BabySongsTube)
Si tu as la joie au coeur frappe tes mains – If You’re Happy and You Know It (Easy Language Learning)
Va-t’en grand monstre vert: story
SUMMER TERM: Animals
We learn how to name farm animals in French. We also learn how French people represent animal sounds in a different way. For example, a dog (un chien) goes ‘ouah’, a duck (un canard) goes ‘coin’, a pig (un cochon) goes ‘groin’ and a cow (une vache) goes ‘mueh!’
Un chien avec un gros nez (Alain le Lait)
Le vieux Macdonald (Adventures Abroad)
Wordwall game: Les animaux
Wordwall game: Match up singular and plural animals
educandy games:
Les animaux de la ferme/Match the animals
Les animaux de la ferme au pluriel/How many farm animals
Les couleurs des animaux/Match the animals with their colours
Sports
educandy games: Les Sports/Sports in French
Various
Petit escargot (Laure Jaccard)
Papo the parrot visits a school in France (Adventures Abroad)
Frère Jacques (Comptines et chansons)
Year 3
This year you will build on work done in Y2 and start looking at how French is written and pronounced. We will be learning lots of different French topics such as: ages and numbers, colours, classroom equipment and language, pets.
Please look below for links and games that we do in class.
Autumn Term:
Greetings and Personal Information
Bonjour, Bonjour! (Alain le Lait)
Comment tu t’appelles?, What is your name? (Basho & Friends)
Greetings Quiz (Euroclub Schools)
Numbers
Wordwall games:
1-10
educandy games:
Les nombres 0-10
Les nombres 1-15
Spelling numbers 0-10
languagesonline games:
1-10 en Francais
11-20 en Francais
How old are you? Wordwall games:
Spring Term:
Colours
educandy games:
Match the French to the colours
Match the colours French and English
Spelling colours in French
Wordwall:
Les couleurs anagram game
languagesonline games:
Les colours
DigitalDialects:
Colour spelling game
Colour in French
Colour spelling game 2
Classroom Objects and Phrases
Wordwall games: match the objects
educandy games:
Dans ma trousse – Classroom Objects
Les objets de la classe Extension work
Wordwall:
En classe – unscramble the classroom object anagrams
Dans ma trousse song:
Dans ma trousse: sentence building about classroom objects
Summer Term:
Animals
educandy games:
Des animaux – Match the animals
Les animaux au pluriel – One or more than one?
As-tu un animal? – Do you have a pet?
Une souris verte… – Describing pets
Au magasin des animaux – Describing animals at the pet shop
Wordwall games:
Plurals of animals
Other online links:
As-tu un animal? Song (Catherine Cantin)
C’est un chien… avec un gros nez – It’s a dog with a big nose (Alain le Lait)
Les quatre amis – The four friends (Orangery Education)
Le vieux Macdonald – Old Macdonald had a farm (Adventures Abroad)
Ours brun, dis-moi – Brown bear, tell me. (Robert Daigle)
If Time Allows:
educandy games:
Les sports – Match the pairs
Bastille Day (Fête Nationale du 14 juillet) French National Day
Follow this link for a quiz about le 14 juillet (Euroclub Schools)
Do you know when the Eiffel Tower was built?
Year 4
Bienvenue à tous! This year we will be learning lost of different French topics such as: Myself and my family, spelling in French, food, weather and the geography of France. Scroll down for links to songs and games that we do in class.
Autumn Term:
Bonjour
Bonjour, Bonjour! French greetings (Alain le Lait)
La chanson de l’alphabet – as done in class
Listen to the alphabet
l’Alphabet avec Didou (Didou dessine-moi)
Alphabet games
Léon Le Caméléon (Apollo Apollo)
Family
Ma Famille (Alain le Lait)
educandy games:
Recognising family members – ma sœur etc
Dans ma famille – describe your family
WORDWALL GAMES
Ma famille #4
Months, Days & Numbers
Les mois de l’année (song by Alain le Lait)
Les mois – French months educandy game
Les mois – Educandy spelling game
Les jours de la semaine – Days of the week educandy game
Days and Months online practice game
1-10 en français languagesonline
11-20 en français languagesonline
Numbers 0-10 educandy
Numbers 0-15 educandy
Numbers 11-30 educandy
Numbers to 50 (song by Alain le Lait)
Birthdays and Dates
Quelle est la date de ton anniversaire? song
Wordwall game: match the dates
La Chenille Qui Fait Des Trous – The Very Hungry Caterpillar
La Chenille qui fait des trous Eric Carle video
Games:
Vocab activity – educandy
Wordwall matching game
Wordwall sentence building game
Spring Term:
Food: part 1
J’aime les fruits – I Like Fruits SONG (Alain le Lait)
A trip to the supermarket to buy fruit CLIP (HighFive)
educandy games:
J’aime les fruits – match French and English
J’aime les fruits – match pictures and English
More fruit and vegetables – match pictures and sound
Wordwall games:
Fill the gap with the correct word
Unjumble the letters: fruits and vegetables
Sort into masculine or feminine groups
Extra practice: languagesonline games:
Les Fruits
Une salade de fruits
Food: part 2
J’ai faim, j’ai soif (Alain le Lait)
Miam, miam! song (Euroclub schools)
Wordwall:
Jaime le fromage
Unjumble the letters: other foods
educandy games:
La nourriture – food items
La nourriture – Part 2
Likes and dislikes
French food quiz (Euroclub schools)
A few food items you might avoid!!! (Euroclub schools)
Summer Term:
WEATHER
educandy games:
Describing the weather
The Seasons
Wordwall games
Weather phrases
Weather in different towns
Le temps et les saisons
Weather and seasons match up
SUMMER 2
Revision of food items using J’aime: 1
Revision of food items and different opinion verbs: 2
Wordwall: quiz on ice cream flavours quiz on ice cream flavours + sound to practise pronunciation
Wordwall: buying an ice cream activity
Bastille Day (Fête Nationale du 14 juillet) French National Day
Follow this link for a quiz about le 14 juillet Link to Euroclub Schools
Do you know when the Eiffel Tower was built? Link to Euroclub Schools
La tour Eiffel a des ailes (DokeoTV)
14th July fireworks at the Eiffel Tower (Le Parisien)
Other Activities if time allows
Je suis le musicien (EasyMFL)
Le Cygne – The Dying Swan
Mon petit lapin (Titounis)
ITALIAN
During Y4 we like to introduce pupils to Italian as part of their topic work on the Romans and Italy. We offer Y4 the opportunity to attend a lunchtime club to learn a bit more Italian and all Y4 pupils are most welcome.
This month Newbury Park School is highlighting Italian. Take a look at their super resources.
Newbury Park School Language World link
Wordwall introductions matching; reordering game
Wordwall numbers 1-10 spelling; matching
Conosci l’Italia? Discover the geography of Italy
I colori – colours. Song to practise colours in Italian
Wordwall colours game
La Pronuncia
It’s really important and empowering to be able to sound out words correctly in a foreign language. Here are some resources to help with pronouncing Italian:
First key sounds: A, E, I, O, U sing along to the VOCALI song
A,E,I,O,U
Siamo cinque e non di più
Siamo lettere speciali
E ci chiamano VOCALI
Italian alphabet: follow this link to hear the letters and this video for more practice
CA, CO, CU, CI, CE, CHI, CHE watch this video to practise these key sounds
GLI, GN watch this video to practise these tricky sounds
Year 5
Bienvenue à tous!
Below you will find link to work done in class and to resources that can help you with your French. This year we continue to focus on phonics, grammar and using the bilingual dictionary as well as various topics which include:
Autumn Term: Personal information; school subjects and opinions
Spring Term: Planets; telling the time
Summer Term: Using adjectives to describe clothes; sports, likes and dislikes
Autumn Term:
French Phonics
We continue to look at different sounds of French and how they are written. These links maybe useful for further practice:
Léon Le Caméléon (Apollo Apollo)
Practice your French phonics using the wheel!
Bonjour
Bonjour, Bonjour! French greetings (Alain le Lait)
Personal Information / Pets
Pets games links:
Educandy game ; Wordwall game 1; Wordwall game 2; Wordwall game 3
Revision of family vocab
Ma Famille (Alain le Lait)
educandy games:
Recognising family members – ma sœur etc
Dans ma famille – describe your family
WORDWALL GAMES
Ma famille #4
Months, Days & Numbers
Les mois de l’année (song by Alain le Lait)
Revision of common questions and answers using educandy
Another educandy game which focuses on accuracy
Revision of Food: part 1
J’aime les fruits – I Like Fruits (Alain le Lait)
educandy games:
J’aime les fruits
which fruits I like/dislike
Les légumes
Food: part 2
Wordwall:
Jaime le fromage
Likes and dislikes
Numbers
1-10 en francais game
educandy games:
Les nombres 0-10
Les nombres 11-20
Les nombres -60
Numbers song to 50
AUTUMN 2: School
L’école en France School in France (BBCBitesize)
educandy games:
School subjects in French
Likes and Dislikes
Les Matières practice wheel
Wordwall game: subjects
Wordwall game: match the French and English (extra subjects)
Wordwall game: le, la, l’ or les?
Wordwall game: likes and dislikes and why
Wordwall game: unjumble the sentences
Spring Term:
Planets
Wordwall games:
Label the planets correctly
Practise spelling the planets
Practise the order of the planets – in French, of course!
Can you match the planets according to their descriptions?
educandy games:
Les planètes – position of the planets
Describing the planets
Links to clips:
Le Système solaire (Club Jeunes Science Menzel Temime)
European Space Agency for kids
Telling the Time
Clip teaching the time (on the hour)
The skeleton song
Wordwall games:
Telling the time (on the hour) quiz
Match numbers 10-60
5,10,15,20, etc spelling up to 60
educandy games:
Quelle heure est-il?
Times with quarter and half past
languagesonline games:
Quelle heure est-il?
Telling the time
Summer Term:
Descriptions: Les vêtements
Les vêtements – Clothes (Alain le Lait) SONG
Wordwall games
CLOTHES VOCABULARY
Masculine or feminine? sorting game
DESCRIBING CLOTHES
Un pull bleu… matching. What do you notice?
Bleu, bleue, bleus, bleues Practice using ‘bleu’
Noir, noire, noirs, noires Practice using ‘noir’
Blanc, blanche, blancs, blanches Practice using ‘blanc’
WHO IS WEARING WHICH ITEMS?
educandy games:
Clothes
Matching clothes
les vêtements
DESCRIPTIONS OF HAIR AND EYES
Il a les yeux rouges… (Alain le lait) SONG
Wordwall game: put the words in the correct order
Wordwall game: choose the correct description
Educandy game: les yeux match the French and the English
Educandy game: les yeux et les cheveux more matching!
LES SPORTS
Je joue et je fais Wordwall game
Le, la or l’? Wordwall game
Bastille Day (Fête Nationale du 14 juillet) French National Day
Follow this link for a quiz about le 14 juillet Euroclub Schools
Facts about France Euroclub schools
La Tour Eiffel
Do you know when the Eiffel Tower was built and why? Euroclub Schools
Quiz on the Eiffel Tower Euroclub schools
La tour Eiffel a des ailes (DokeoTV)
14th July fireworks at the Eiffel Tower (Le Parisien)
Digital Dialects
Digital Dialects is a useful website where French native speakers say vocabulary items to help with pronunciation. try these links:
Phrases
Numbers 1-12
Animals
Spelling various vocab items
Colour
Reference
Collins online French/English bilingual dictionary
Year 6
Bienvenue à tous!
Below you will find links to work done in class and to resources that can help you with your French. This year continues our focus on phonics and we will get to grips with French grammar. We will revise some familiar topics and learn some new ones as follows:
Autumn Term: All about me, spelling and phonics; My town
Spring Term: Transport and getting around; learning about France and other Francophone countries
Summer Term: Une visite en France; consolidation, grammar work and preparation for the next stage
We also encourage you to use Duolingo to help develop your skills in French or other languages. If you have lost your login details please ask Mme Taylor for a reminder. Educandy is also very useful for practising the topics we have covered in class, see the links below:
Autumn Term:
AUTUMN 1
French Phonics
We have been looking at different sounds of French and how they are written. These links may be useful for further practice:
Practise French sounds
Léon Le Caméléon (Apollo Apollo)
Classroom Language
educandy games:
On parle français en classe!
Revision of Personal InformationWordwall game
BRILLIANT CONVERSATIONS!
Educandy game 1 Educandy game 2 Educandy game 3
French Alphabet
We have learned that in French the alphabet sounds are said differently than in English. We have practised spelling out our names so that a French person would understand. Here are some useful resources:
La chanson de l’alphabet – as done in class
Listen to the alphabet
Months, Days & Numbers
Days and Months online practice game
Numbers 11-50
Birthdays and Dates
Quelle est la date de ton anniversaire?
AUTUMN 2: PLACES IN TOWN
1.Saying what is/isn’t in our town using il y a and il n’y a pas de
Places in town Educandy game One & Educandy game Two
Dans ma ville Wordwall anagram game
Dans ma ville il y a... Wordwall sentence building matching game and missing word game
2. Giving opinions about our town: j’aime ma ville car…
Opinions about town (Educandy)
What we like about our town (Educandy)
Why I like my town (Wordwall anagram game)
3. Saying what you can do in your town On peut regarder un match au stade etc
Wordwall game
4. Extra practice and more places in town: languagesonline games:
En ville
Spring Term:
Places in town part 2 and getting around
Quand je vais à l’école – revise the places in town
Travel to school:educandy game
Wordwall games:
Les transports: match up game
Comment vas-tu à l’école? Link
On bouge! Qui, où, comment?
ALLER verb practice
France and Francophone countries
Dans Paris il y a une rue – Poem by Paul Eluard
À Paris, il y a – In Paris there is
Summer Term:
Revision: Ma famille
WORDWALL label the family tree
EDUCANDY matching game
EDUCANDY practise spelling family members
EDUCANDY describing your family
Où habites-tu?
We are using materials from the Oak National Academy to consolidate and deepen our ability to talk about where we live. You could follow these links for further practice at home:
Lesson 1: Saying your nationality
Lesson 2: Saying which country you live in and which languages you speak
Lesson 3: Using the negative: where you don’t live etc
Lesson 4: Consolidation of this topic
GAMES LINKS:
Wordwall: fill the gaps
Wordwall: label the map
Wordwall: match countries, languages and nationalities
Wordwall: match the French and English key vocab
Wordwall: male or female? Sort the nationalities
VERB WORK SUMMER 2
J’ai faim, je mange… song (Alain le Lait)
Bastille Day (Fête Nationale du 14 juillet) French National Day
Follow this link for a quiz about le 14 juillet
Do you know when the Eiffel Tower was built?
La tour Eiffel a des ailes (DokeoTV)
14th July fireworks at the Eiffel Tower (Le Parisien)
Euroclub schools facts about France
Euroclub schools quiz on the Eiffel Tower
Digital Dialects
Digital Dialects is a useful website where French native speakers say vocabulary items to help with pronunciation. try these links:
Phrases
Numbers 1-12
Animals
Spelling various vocab items
Colours
Reference
Collins online French/English bilingual dictionary
GRAMMAR CLUB
Interested in gaining a deeper knowledge of French? Follow the links below.
PERSONAL PRONOUNS: who is who in verb form? Wordwall game
Recognising INFINITIVES: wordwall sorting game
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Regular verb PARLER – to speak Wordwall game1; wordwall game 2
Educandy games with regular verbs:
J’aime’ and ‘Je n’aime pas’ – I like/don’t like
Aimer – to like
Aimer – to like in French phrases
Manger – to eat
Irregular verb ÊTRE – to be Wordwall game
Irregular verb AVOIR – to have Wordwall game
‘avoir’ – to have.
J’ai = I have
tu as = you have (singular)
il a = he has
elle a = she has
nous avons = we have
vous avez = you have (plural or formal)
ils ont = they have
elles ont = they have (all female)
Go to educandy :
Avoir – to have
Avoir – to have in French phrases
Making negatives : wordwall game
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