français Les animaux

Nous allons … Parler un peu de la France et de la Guyane française Aprendre le nom de 12 animaux de France et de Guyane Apprendre quelques caractéristiques de ces animaux Objectives for the lesson

Introduce the names of the animals, focussing on pronunciation Introduce the names of the animals, focussing on pronunciation. Elicit the English.The animals are: le loup, le lynx, la marmotte, l’ours, le vautour, le serpent.

Same as previous slide. Allow between 5 and 7 minutes to introduce the words. The animals are: le tapir, le toucan, le papillon, l’araignée, la tortue, le crocodile

Où est la France? Et la Guyane française? Map of the world to show pupils where France and French Guyana are. Get a pupil to come to the front. Teacher could say common things that French Guyana and France have in common. Like the fact they both speak French. It would also be a good idea to ask pupils for other countries where they speak French and show them on the map.

Où vivent ces animaux? Pupils say in French where the various animals live.

toucan Réflechir! vautour loup lynx marmotte ours serpent tapir papillon araignée crocodile tortue Masculin Féminin Names of all the animals in the top box. Remind pupils of the words for a/the and that there is gender in French. Ask them the obvious ones (feminin ending in e, except crocodile) You could elicit this whole class or put them into pairs with dictionaries.

un/le toucan Réflechir! un/le vautour un/le loup un/le lynx une/la marmotte un/l’ours un/le vautour un/le serpent un/le toucan un/le tapir un/le papillon une/l’araignée un/le crocodile une/la tortue Masculin Féminin This is a much more straightforward reinforcement activity and perhaps could be used at the same time as the other slide (8) with certain pupils if you have grouped according to ability? Names of all the animals in the top box. Put them in the right column depending whether they are masculine or feminine. Work to be done in exercise book. ( 6 -8 minutes). Remind them of clues, how are they going to handle this activity. It could be worth to explain the difference between “le/la” and “un/une”.

Correction Masculin Féminin un/le loup une/la marmotte un/le lynx une/l’araignée un/l’ours une/la tortue un/le vautour un/le serpent un/le tapir un/le toucan un/le papillon un/le crocodile Rather than just simply correcting answers you could reinforce their ability to switch quickly between ‘the’ and ‘a’ by calling out ‘a snake’ , ‘the wolf’ etc..Good for pronunciation reinforcement too.

Par 2, en binôme! Cet animal vit en Amérique du Sud, en Amérique Centrale et en Asie. Il ressemble à un cochon mais il a une trompe. Il sort surtout la nuit et il est très solitaire. Il mesure environ 2 m de long et 1 m de haut. Il peut vivre environ 30 ans. Il se nourrit exclusivement d’herbe. Cet animal vit en France dans la forêt. Il ressemble à un chat, mais il est plus grand. Il a les poils courts. Ce mammifère mange des cerfs, des oiseaux et des poissons. Il est en danger d'extinction. Il aime vivre seul. Cet animal peut peser jusqu'à 80 kg. Il vivent en groupe. Ce mammifère se nourrit de moutons, et d’autres animaux. Cet animal vit dans les montagnes ou les forêts. Il a les poils de différentes couleurs. Il a quatre pattes et ressemble à un chien. Pupils get a few minutes to try to work out which animals these refer to. They have done 2 dictionary lessons already last lesson so they might be allowed to look up a maximum of 5 words? Animals: lynx, loup, tpir 1. .................... 2. ................... 3. .....................

Jeu! Noughts and crosses to revise the animals – be very sharp on gender here as they have been focusing on this and now the colour support is withdrawn.

Carte d’Identité Nom: Habitat: Alimentation: Description: Autres détails: Homework: Read the text given in class (slide 10) and for the next lesson, write down in French the information needed to fill in the “information card” above. Pupils will be required to memorise their presentation. This should be a good exercise to make sure they understand the text given in class.