03 January 2025
All Day
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.
EYFS/Year 1
Songs for young learners
Frère Jacques
Sur le pont d’Avignon
Un éléphant qui se balançait
Pomme de reinette et pomme d’api
Meunier tu dors
Petit Escargot
Am stram gram
LES PIRATES: Ainsi font les petites marionnettes
LES PIRATES: La famille des doigts
French rhymes/ finger rhymes: link to Nattalingo
Couleurs, couleurs song by Les oiseaux du Paradis
La chanson des couleurs song by Learn French through music
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? song (Basho & Friends)
Colours
Wordwall games:
Match these 5 colours; Match these 8 colours ; Can you match all 10 colours?
educandy games:
Match the French to the colours / French and English
Practise colours (Titounis)
Colours song (Titounis)
Numbers
Wordwall game 1-6 ; 1-10
educandy games:
Les nombres 0-10 ; Les nombres 11-20
Numbers 1-9 (Monde des Titounis)
Song 1-10 (KidsTV123)
Quel âge as-tu? Ages matching wordwall game
Quel âge as-tu? Rap
Un, deux, trois nous irons au bois (Traditional song performed by Laviedeo)
Numbers song to 20 (Alain le Lait)
Les instructions en classe
Wordwall game
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)
Wordwall game:
label the months ; Match the French and English ; Matching pairs
educandy 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 A familiar song – but in French!
SONGS
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 ‘meuh!’
Un chien avec un gros nez (Alain le Lait)
Le vieux Macdonald (Adventures Abroad)
Wordwall games: Les animaux ; Match up singular and plural animals ; Match the animals with their colours!
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
Wordwall games: listen and match up the sports game 1 ; game 2 ; game 3; Spin the wheel!
Various
Petit escargot (Laure Jaccard)
Papo the parrot visits a school in France (Adventures Abroad)
Frère Jacques (Comptines et chansons)
Alouette, gentille alouette traditional song
Year 3
This year we build on work done in Y2 and start looking at how French is written and pronounced. We learn 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:
0-6 ; 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
Basic information – games
Wordwall game 1 ; Wordwall game 2
How old are you? Wordwall games:
Spring Term:
COLOURS
Wordwall:
Match the colours game 1 ; Match the colours game 2 ; Les couleurs anagram game
educandy games:
Match the French to the colours ; Match the colours French and English ; Spelling colours in French
languagesonline games:
Les colours
DigitalDialects:
Colour spelling game ; Colour in French ; Colour spelling game 2
SONG: Léon le caméléon ; Wordwall game: Léon le caméléon
SPRING 2: CLASSROOM OBJECTS AND PHRASES
Wordwall games: match the objects ; Dans ma trousse: un, une or des?
educandy games:
Dans ma trousse – Classroom Objects ; Les objets de la classe Extension work
Wordwall:
En classe – unscramble the classroom object anagrams ; sentence building about classroom objects
Dans ma trousse song:
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:
Anagrams ; Match up game 1 ; Match up game 2 ; Plurals of animals
OURS BRUN
Wordwall gap fill game ; Wordwall quiz game ; Wordwall match the 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)
Also:
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 learn 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:
AUTUMN 1
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 – family
Ma famille #1 ; Ma famille #2 ; Ma famille #3 ; Ma famille #4
AUTUMN 2
Months, Days & Numbers
C’est les 12 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
Numbers 0-15 educandy ; Numbers 11-30 educandy ; Numbers 15-31 wordwall
Numbers to 50 (song by Alain le Lait)
Birthdays and Dates
Quelle est la date de ton anniversaire? song
Wordwall game: match the dates ; Wordwall game: unjumble the sentences
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
SPRING 2
Food: part 2
J’ai faim, j’ai soif (Alain le Lait)
Miam, miam! song (Euroclub schools)
Les opinions wordwall game
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
Match up game 1 ; Match up game 2
Weather in different towns
Rhyming match up ; Unjumble the sentence!
Le temps et les saisons
Weather and seasons quiz ; Weather and seasons match up
Quand il fait beau je joue du piano song by Mme Cantin
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.
ITALIAN ONLINE DICTIONARY link
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
LE PIZZE
Wordwall game
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; using adjectives to describe hair, eyes and clothes
Summer Term: Telling the time; 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 #1 ; Ma famille #2 ; Ma famille #3 ; Ma famille #4
Revision
C’est les 12 mois de l’année (song by Alain le Lait)
Revision of common questions and answers using educandy
Another educandy game which focuses on accuracy
Numbers
Les nombres 0-10 ; Les nombres 11-20 ; Les nombres -60
Numbers song to 50
AUTUMN 2: School
A primary school in Marseille (BBCBitesize)
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: tu aimes les maths? (matching)
Wordwall: j’aime les maths (reorder the sentences)
Wordwall game: likes and dislikes and why
Wordwall game: unjumble the sentences
Spring Term :
SPRING 1 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
SPRING 2: DESCRIPTIONS
EYES/HAIR
CLOTHES VOCABULARY
Match the clothes items ; Masculine or feminine? sorting game ; Anagrams
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?
Je porte, tu portes, il porte, elle porte… (I am wearing, you are wearing, he is wearing, she is wearing…)
educandy games:
Clothes ; Matching clothes ; les vêtements
Promenons-nous dans les bois Song
Promenons-nous dans les bois Wordwall game
Summer Term :
QUELLE HEURE EST-IL?
Wordwall quiz ; Wordwall: quarter and half past
Educandy time game ; Numbers to 60: educandy game ; 24 hour clock educandy game
LES SPORTS
Match the sports Wordwall game ; Tu aimes le foot? Wordwall game
J’aime le foot car c’est… Wordwall game
Je joue et je fais Wordwall game ; I do or I play? 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 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 Information: BRILLIANT CONVERSATIONS!
Wordwall game – spelling
Wordwall game 1 all about Lisa
Wordwall game 2 all about Tom
Wordwall game 3 all about Paul
Educandy games – similar to Wordwall but using educandy instead
QUESTIONS ET REPONSES
Questions and answers on personal information
AUTUMN 2: VERB WORK
J’ai faim, je mange… song (Alain le Lait)
Wordwall game 1: match the verbs from the song
Wordwall game 2 to practise the verbs from the song
Wordwall game 3 to practise the verbs from the song in context
Wordwall sentence building game
Wordwall more sentence building
Wordwall unjumble the sentences
Quand je vais à l’école song and game 1 game 2
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
Comment tu t’appelles? Comptines d’Afrique (from Congo-Brazzaville)
Tête épaules genoux pieds, nous dansons comme ça Comptines d’Afrique (from Congo-Brazzaville)
Dans Paris il y a une rue – Poem by Paul Eluard
Languages spoken in the world Try this genially online challenge!
Label some of the francophone countries!
Try this wordwall quiz on francophone countries
Summer Term:
ALLONS TOUS EN FRANCE! Making a trip to France
Wordwall: Which shops are they?
Wordwall: fill the gaps
Wordwall: C’est combien? Prices in French
Educandy numbers to 60
Wordwall: Au café
Wordwall: conversations in shops and at the cafe
Wordwall: Getting around a town
REVISION and preparation for Y7
PERSONAL PRONOUNS: who is who in verb form? Wordwall game
Recognising INFINITIVES: wordwall sorting game
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
Où habites-tu?
Here are some 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
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
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
Celebrations and Special Events
LE TOUR DE FRANCE 29 juin 2024 – 21 juillet 2024
Tour de France route for 2024
This year the Tour de France starts from Florence, in Italy, and finishes in Nice, in the south of France (because Paris is busy getting ready for the Olympic Games).
Watch an amazing 3D representation of the route here
LES JEUX OLYMPIQUES 2024: PARIS This year the Olympic Games are taking place in France.
Link to the official website here
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)
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!
CHRISTMAS songs and links
Calendrier de l’Avent interactive advent calendar in French
SONGS
Quand le Père Noël vient me visitersong
L’as-tu vu, le petit bonhomme au chapeau pointu song
Trotte, trotte renne rose song
Mon beau sapin traditional song
Douce nuit, sainte nuit Silent Night in French
Il est né le divin enfant traditional song
EUROCLUB SCHOOLS LINKS
Euroclub schools Christmas quiz
Christmas in France information link
GAMES
Quand le Père Noël vient me visiter wordwall game link to song
Christmas vocab match up wordwall game
Another match up game wordwall
Christmas food in France educandy game
Choisis le bon numérowordwall numbers game
LUNAR NEW YEAR
Every year sees a celebration of the start of the new Lunar year, also known as Spring Festival. This is celebrated in many countries throughout the world, particularly China, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Lunar New Year 2024 – Powerpoint
EDUCANDY game
WORDWALL game
LA CHANDELEUR
On 2nd February in France is the festival of candles, ‘la Chandeleur’. A day for making and eating pancakes!
WORDWALL GAME on the topic of la Chandeleur
SONG: C’est la Chandeleur
ANOTHER SONG: Crepe Party
JOYEUSES PÂQUES – Happy Easter!
Easter around the world: link
BBC: Easter traditionsaround the world
‘Happy Easter’ in lots of languages
Euroclub Schools: more about Easter traditions in France, Spain and Italy
Wordwall game: label the Easter eggs!
Wordwall quiz: Pâques
Wordwall quiz: Easter in Italy
Wordwall: I simboli della Pasqua
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