Les couleurs des saisons - Seasonal Colours

OBJECTIVES:

To describe the seasons using colours and antonyms.

RESOURCES:

Paper or card | Colouring pens or crayons

VOCABULARY:

chaud/froid - hot/cold

heureux/triste - happy/sad

coloré/fade - colourful/dull

sombre/clair - dark/light

joli/laid - pretty/ugly

Warm Up

Ask your student what is an adjective and what is a noun. Read out a selection of known nouns and adjectives. When children hear an adjective, they clap their hands, when they hear a noun, they pat their head. Try this with English words first and then with French.

Revise seasons using mimes.

Main Activity

Print and cut out the Seasons Picture Cards. Play extracts from the Vivaldi’s Four Seasons video (without the visual) and ask your student to identify which season matches each extract putting the cards in order.

LISTEN - Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (YouTube)

Listen again and pick out colour cards from the Les couleurs Flashcards that they can associate with each piece/season.

Use the Seasons Text Cards from last week, put the season cards on the table and get your student to decide which colours go under which season.

Introduce some antonyms with the Antonym Picture Cards. Ask your student to match the pairs of pictures.

Use the paired pictures to match with the new words in the Antonym Text Cards. Cut out the Antonym Text Cards leaving the English and French attached across the row, this way you can fold them in half and use the vocabulary learning game we have used before: you lay out all the cards French side up and try to remember the English - check by flipping it over. If you are correct, then it stays on the English side. If not, turn it back and come back to it. Keep going until all are on the English side and then do the same trying to remember the French.

Play ping-pong with the antonyms. Bat chaud to your student and they bat back.

Ask your student to add the new adjectives to the appropriate seasons in the Seasons Text Cards.

Follow-on Activity

Illustrate descriptions of the seasons on card or paper with colouring pencils and crayons for the display.