Sample Lesson 1

Recap Opinions and Colours

 

OBJECTIVES:

To recap opinions j’aime, je n’aime pas, je déteste and j’adore and extended sentences with je préfère and et / mais.

To reinforce prior learning.

To extend sentences.

RESOURCES:

Download Les opinions (PowerPoint)

| Download Les opinions Memory Cards | Online Dictionary (Word Reference) Links to an external site. 

VOCABULARY:

Revision of colours and animals - there are examples of colours and animals vocabulary in the PowerPoint.

Opinions:

j’aime - I like

je n’aime pas - I don’t like

j’adore - I love

je déteste - I hate

Tu aimes quelle couleur ? - What colour do you like?

 

Warm Up Warm Up 

Using Les opinions Memory Cards select the five opinion phrases and associated pictures. Using the pictures only first, get the student to choose items which, for them, go with that opinion. You can use food items, toys, clothes, whatever you fancy. See if you can elicit the French phrases - j’aime etc.  Introduce the cards with the opinions phrases and get the student to match them up.

Watch the following video with your student: Les opinions.

Main Activity Main Activity

In order to refresh your memory on opinions, work through the opinions on colours in Les opinions PowerPoint, asking and answering the question Tu aimes quelle couleur ? - student and teacher should alternate asking and answering the question.

Try to extend your answers with help from the PowerPoint, adding in the connectives - et / mais / ou (and / but / or) and the new opinion je préfère if confident.

Adapt the language you have learnt to the topic of animals, there are some examples in the PowerPoint. Using the same opinions and connectives, formulate sentences giving your opinions on the animals in the presentation. 

Apply.png Plenary

Challenge yourself to make the longest sentence, you should include:

  • opinions (repeat as often as you want);
  • connectives (repeat as often as you want);
  • colours / animals and any other vocabulary we have learnt.

Write this sentence in big writing on a big piece of paper and hang it up somewhere to remind yourself how much French you now know and how much you can write!

Challenge yourself to memorise your sentence! You might need to use prompts such as pictures or emojis as you go through it. (The need to memorise language cannot be underestimated, if your student can memorise some phrases they will be able to use and adapt them in the future).

Follow-on Activity Follow-on Activity

Challenge yourself to remember an extended sentence a day, recite it at breakfast or bedtime or adapt for use with different things - use Word Reference Online Dictionary to look up nouns that you don’t know - remember you will need to use the le / la / les in front of them.

EXPLORE - Online Dictionary (Word Reference) Links to an external site.