Ma famille What? To be able to describe your family as part of the speaking controlled assessment How? Learn key words and phrases Develop simple descriptions Why? To gain a grade C in the speaking assessment. Prep for controlled ass speaking - 1st half on family – aim to cover 2 mins worth of questions using simple repetitive phrases to drill key phrases.

Starter – which words/phrases are connected with ‘family’ in French? Underline the words you think you are definitely going to need to describe your family from the following list of words. J’ai mangé // ma mère // orange // ma famille // je n’aime pas // mon père // maison // courts // maths // jouer // vacances // terrible // petit(e)// sœur // habite // frère // grand(e) // le foot // longs // ma chambre // j’ai visité // j’aime // parce que // super // je déteste // verts // est // danse // Lots of key words here – see how many they can underline that are relevant.. All could be used but focus on the main ‘obvious’ ones

Which of the following words that you have just underlined could be used to complete the following sentences? Ma _________ s’appelle Linda Mon ________ s’appelle Karl. J’ai un ________ qui s’appelle Stuart. J’ai une sœur qui s’appelle Sarah. J’ai les cheveux ________ J’ai les yeux _________ Ma ________ est très grande Mon _________ est assez petit. Fill in with obvious answers – get students to read out sentences once they have them

mon père / ma mère Mon père s’appelle _________ Mon père est _____ __________ mon père parce que mon père est _________. Ma mère s’appelle ________ Ma mère est ….. _________ ma mère parce que ma mère est __________ Think about their own family – get them to make it up even if they don’t have them… stress how easy it is to come up with these simple grade c sentences – especially the parce que with easy none changing adjectives

How much can you remember? Mon père … … Ma mère … 2 Key Verbs est = is s’appelle = is called See how much they can remember from the previous 5-10 mins of the lesson…

Adding extra bits to the basic family needs some key grammar. un une mon ma Get they to say which family members fit onto which side – base on mum dad brother sister. Build/ revise simple sentences from before with these words

Brothers and sisters – you have one of each!!! I have a brother and my brother is called John. My brother is tall. I don’t like my brother. I have a sister and my sister is called Sandra. My sister is small. I like my sister because my sister is great. Translate the following sentences into French. J’ai // s’appelle

Two Questions done! Tu as des parents? Tu as des frères et des sœurs? mon / un / frère / père ma / une / mère / sœur grand(e) // petit(e) super / terrible Get students to write as much as they can using vocab they have been using and make sure they use all the words in the box at the bottom

Talking about yourself. Je m’appelle … J’habite à … Je suis ……. J’aime … Je n’aime pas …. Link the sentences using et / mais Mini description of self – use things like Manchester united after J’aime – use english word phrases.

Adding the new question. Comment tu t’appelles? Tu as des parents? Tu as des frères et des sœurs? Put all three questions together. mon / un / frère / père ma / une / mère / sœur grand(e) // petit(e) super / terrible et // mais // parce que

Translate the following sentences into French to prove you have learnt the vocab and structures. I have a brother but my brother is awful and I don’t like my brother. I like my mum because my mum is great. I have a dad and I like my dad because my dad because my dad is great. My dad is called Philip. My mum is called Sandra and I like my mum because my mum is great. I have a sister and I don’t like my sister because my sister is awful. Dice work to create random sentence translations. GCSE grade c sentences. That they can now do.

Learn key words and phrases Develop simple descriptions Why? What? To be able to describe your family as part of the speaking controlled assessment How? Learn key words and phrases Develop simple descriptions Why? To gain a grade C in the speaking assessment. Prep for controlled ass speaking - 1st half on family – aim to cover 2 mins worth of questions using simple repetitive phrases to drill key phrases.

Homework Controlled Assessment Prep – write out your answers to the questions on the sheet. (15 mins) plus spend at least 10 mins learning them! Simple yet effective short homework – writing out to ensure vocab is there to be learnt.