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What's your name?
Teaching objectives:
Children will learn to say their name and ask others their names; they will respond to the question 'Who is it?'.
New language content:
Qui est-ce? - Who is it?
C'est Roller - It's Roller
C'est Florian - It's Florian
C'est Perrine - It's Perrine
Comment tu t'appelles? - What's your name?
Je m'appelle Violette - My name is Violette
Je m'appelle Dodu - My name is Dodu
et toi? - what's yours?
Previous knowledge:
This section builds on greetings and numbers to six.
Notes:
- Both Comment tu t'appelles? or Comment t'appelles-tu? can be used to ask a name; the former is more often used in colloquial French.
- In France there is a high level of interest in cycling, with a particular focus on the Tour de France cycle race around France each summer. The most commonly used word for bike is un vélo.
- The shop in the En France photo story is a Boulangerie-Pâtisserie: a combined bread and cake shop. The children should enjoy spotting the traditional French bread - une baguette. It is a common sight to see people with loaves strapped to bikes or mopeds, or to see children walking home with one or two. The bread is baked twice a day - morning and afternoon - so a family in easy distance of a Boulangerie (Bakery) will usually send someone to fetch the bread once for breakfast and once for the evening meal. Croissants are a luxury breakfast and so more often eaten on a Sunday morning; French children sometimes dip their bread or croissants in their hot chocolate or milky coffee. Pains au chocolat - chocolate croissants, can be eaten at breakfast or as an afternoon snack- le goûter. French children commonly eat lunch at midday and an evening meal at eight pm, therefore they often need a snack on returning home from school.
Reinforcement:
- Let children listen and respond to their names before you expect them to answer: you could throw a ball in the air and say a child's name - that child must catch the ball before it bounces, eg Je m'appelle Claire.
- Play a Yes/No game: three or four children are concealed behind a screen; the class call Comment tu t'appelles? and one of the group answers in a disguised voice; the class must decide if the unseen child has answered truthfully.
Printable stuff:
- Play the Interactive game of Pelmanism to prepare for Snap!. If you are unable to do so then play games to familiarise the children with the text forms of the names: you could enlarge the sheets and make them into flashcards to play a class version of the game, matching text to pictures.
Extension:
- Teach Il/elle s'appelle... Progress to using it as captions for pictures of people in the class, or of famous people.
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