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What colour is it?
Teaching objectives:
Children will learn colours; they will respond to the question What colour is it?; they will understand adjectives of colour used in the correct order in a sentence.
New language content:
C'est de quelle couleur? - What colour is it?
bleu - blue
blanc - white
rouge - red
un crayon vert - a green pencil
un stylo noir - a black pen
un bonbon marron - a brown sweet
un Tee-shirt jaune - a yellow T-shirt
Previous Knowledge:
This section incorporates previously learned conversational language and classroom items.
Notes:
- Adjectival agreements with colours: when a colour describes a feminine noun add e, e.g. une gomme verte [a green rubber]. Some colours change radically by adding other letters too: blanc - blanche and violet - violette.
- Marron and orange are the exceptions to the rule of adjectival agreement: the endings of the words never change.
- Children in France shout Allez les bleus! to cheer on the French football team.
- En France introduces discussion of favourite colours using the structures Quelle est ta couleur préférée? Ma couleur préférée est le bleu.
Reinforcement:
- Mexican wave, to practise saying the colours: choose three or four colours for the sequence, each child saying the next colour in the sequence as they raise their arms, repeating the sequence around the group or the room. Repeat the activity with the remaining colours.
- Play the game Apportez-moi: groups compete to bring you classroom items of different colours, e.g. Apportez-moi un crayon rouge.
- Play a Yes/No [Vrai/Faux] game: a volunteer holds an item, concealed from the class; the children ask C'est de quelle couleur? The child answers, e.g. C'est rouge. The children must decide if the child has told the truth: if they guess correctly the turn passes to another child: if they guess incorrectly the first child continues. Use the game to reinforce the last line of the song using the construction J'ai [I have]: a volunteer holds an item, concealed from the class, and says, e.g. J'ai un crayon. The children must decide if the child has told the truth and the game proceeds as before; progress to adding colours.
- Progress to games to familiarise the children with the text words for colours.
- Have a display of coloured items and label the colours.
Printable Stuff - Matching Pairs Game - pictures to text (2 sheets):
- The children first colour in the pictures to match the text; the cards can then be cut up and used to play Pelmanism or Snap games. Remind the children to say the colour aloud when they have gained a matching pair or Snap.
Extension:
- Have a survey of favourite colours in the class, using the structures introduced in En France - Quelle est ta couleur préférée? Ma couleur préférée est le ......
- Make up lists of rhyming words with colours, nouns and previously learned language, e.g. bONjour, crayON, marrON, ONze, bONbON, mON. You could introduce easy new words, such as boutON. Children could be encouraged to discover others using the bilingual dictionary. The list may be turned into rhymes, or you can play response games, e.g. children put their hands on their heads when they hear a word containing a given sound, but put their hands over their mouths when they hear a word without it.
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