City of Edinburgh French Early Level Les jours de la semaine

Early Level Significant Aspects of Learning Use language in a range of contexts and across learning Develop confidence and enthusiasm to communicate using the language being learnt Begin to develop an awareness of other countries, cultures and languages Listen and join in with simple songs, stories and rhymes Explore and recognise patterns and sounds of language through listening, watching and playing Understand, respond to and say simple greetings and personal information (e.g. name) Repeat and understand simple familiar language from a familiar source Actively take part in simple daily routine language Participate in familiar games including outdoor learning Begin to explore resources to support my learning e.g. picture dictionaries

Vocabulary NB: Days of the week do not have capital letters in French Aim to teach all 7 days before leading up to months and birthdays in 1st and 2nd level. C’est quel jour? What day is it? C’est It’s lundi Monday mardi Tuesday mercredi Wednesday jeudi Thursday vendredi Friday samedi Saturday dimanche Sunday NB: Days of the week do not have capital letters in French

C’est quel jour? What day is it?

C’est lundi lundi

C’est mardi mardi

C’est mercredi mercredi

C’est jeudi jeudi

C’est vendredi vendredi

C’est samedi samedi

C’est dimanche dimanche

Embedding the language Print out the vocabulary slides to use as French day of the week classroom signs. Ask pupils to pick the correct one each day. Ask, “C’est quel jour?” at the start of each day and get pupils to say the day of the week.

Sample activities You will find a bank of sample activities which you can use to practise the vocabulary in the classroom. This is not a prescriptive list of activities and you can use or adapt them to suit the needs of your class.

Activité 1 Days of the week rhyme

lundi mardi mercredi jeudi vendredi samedi dimanche Rhyme to practice learning the days in sequence. You can use them as you would for counting games.

Activité 2 C’est quel jour?

C’est quel jour? 1 Pupils should look at the slides, listen to the day of the week in French and try and match the day of the week to the correct word in English. You could support this further by using day of the week fans so that pupils could do their own individual version.

C’est quel jour? Tuesday Sunday dimanche Monday Wednesday

C’est quel jour? Friday Thursday vendredi Tuesday Sunday

C’est quel jour? Saturday Monday samedi Tuesday Thursday

C’est quel jour? Tuesday Sunday mercredi Monday Wednesday

Guess the day of the week! Activité 3 Guess the day of the week!

C’est quel jour? 2 Pupils should look at the slides and try and guest which day of the week it is hidden behind the question mark. To support this they could have days of the week on cards in front of them.

C’est quel jour? C’est mardi Mystic cards: Pupils have to guess which day of the week is behind the question mark MARDI

C’est quel jour? samedi C’est SAMEDI

C’est quel jour? mercredi C’est MERCREDI

C’est quel jour? C’est vendredi VENDREDI

C’est quel jour? C’est lundi LUNDI

C’est quel jour? C’est dimanche DIMANCHE

C’est quel jour? C’est jeudi JEUDI

C’est quel jour? C’est mardi MARDI

C’est quel jour? C’est jeudi JEUDI

C’est quel jour? C’est dimanche DIMANCHE

Days of the week activities

Days of the week activities. Pupils look at the following slides and say which day of the week they might do the different activities on. There are no right or wrong answers! You could have the days of the week written on cards so that the pupils could select the correct days depending on the picture. To say everyday it’s, “tous les jours!”

Je vais à l’école! C’est quel jour? I go to school. What day is it? Je vais à l’école! C’est quel jour?

Je vais au parc. C’est quel jour? I go to the park. What day is it? Je vais au parc. C’est quel jour?

Je vais à la piscine. C’est quel jour? I go to the swimming pool. What day is it?

Je joue au foot. C’est quel jour? I play football. What day is it?

Je fais du shopping. C’est quel jour? I go shopping. What day is it?

Je vais chez mes grand-parents. C’est quel jour? I go to my grand-parents. What day is it? Je vais chez mes grand-parents. C’est quel jour?

Je regarde la télé. C’est quel jour? I watch the TV. What day is it? Je regarde la télé. C’est quel jour?

Je vais au cinéma. C’est quel jour? I watch the TV. What day is it? Je vais au cinéma. C’est quel jour?

Songs and videos! You will find a bank of sample songs and videos which you can use to practise the vocabulary in the classroom. This is not a prescriptive list of songs and you can use or adapt them to suit the needs of your class.

To the tune from Frère Jacques Lundi, mardi, Mercredi Jeudi, vendredi Samedi, dimanche

To the tune from Campdown Races Lundi, mardi, mercredi Do dah! Do dah! Jeudi, vendredi aussi! Do dah, do dah, day! Samedi et dimanche C’est le week-end! Les sept jours de la semaine! Aussi means also, les sept jours de la semaine means the seven days of the week.

Monde des petits Links to an animated video and a song for days of the week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FswiVDy2KK4

BBC Primary French chanson! http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryfrench/today/song.shtml?nav

Les jours de la semaine Links to an animated video and a song for days of the week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FswiVDy2KK4 Il y a 7 jour dans la semaine, il y a sept jour (there are 7 days in the week, there are 7 days in the week)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPPkHaS4BT0

Les jours de la semaine Pierre Lozère https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ_vwP2I-Hw – words and translation

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday The days of the week Are very disciplined They go till the weekend But without over taking it Chorus X 2 Are well organised Each time they come back again Without ever making a mistake! Can no longer be stopped They are always the same And you know them! Lundi, mardi, mercredi Jeudi, vendredi, samedi dimanche Les jours de la semaine Sont très disciplinés Ils s’en vont au week-end Mais sans se dépasser Chorus X 2 Sont bien organisés Chaque fois ils reviennent Sans jamais se tromper! Ne peuvent plus s’arrêtter Se sont toujours les mêmes Et vous les connaissez!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV-ufaYrRuM

ICT Resources online You will find a bank of sample ICT activities which you can use to practise the vocabulary in the classroom. This is not a prescriptive list of activities and you can use or adapt them to suit the needs of your class. Each of the slides contains an image of the website page. If you click on the image it will take you to the page. Alternatively you can use a link address which you will find in the slide notes.

BBC Primary French http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/french/my_calendar/

Au revoir!