© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education These materials have been designed to be reproduced for internal circulation, research and teaching or training purposes. They can be reproduced for free provided that this material is acknowledged as Crown copyright, reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. Adaptation of these materials for other languages is permissible, providing the original source is acknowledged. LinkedUp project: This is our world La vie scolaire

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. LESSON 1

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. La vie scolaire Autrefois ou maintenant (what differences do you think there might be between school life in the past and now?)

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Objectives To use reading skills to help to understand a text about an unfamiliar topic To think about the differences between school life now and in the past To use dictionaries to identify the meanings of key words about school life and to decide if the words apply to the past or the present.

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Nicolas est un petit garçon qui habite en France pendant les années soixantes. Il habite avec ses parents. Son père travaille dans un bureau et sa mère est femme au foyer. Son père est marrant mais il se dispute souvent avec le voisin, Monsieur Blédurt. Sa mère est sympa et gentille. Nicolas va au collège avec ses amis; Alceste, Joachim, Eudes, Rufus, Geoffroy, Clotaire et Maixent. Alceste est très gourmand. Geoffroy est très riche. Eudes est très fort. Rufus est le fils d’un policier mais il est assez vilain. Personne n’aime Agnan parce qu’il est trop sage! Sa vie est assez différente que la tienne

Read the text Now underline/highlight all the words you definitely understand Now put a circle round any words whose meaning you can guess at because they look similar to English words Now make quick notes about what you understand – you can use a dictionary Now compare your notes with your partner - do you understand more?

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. 1. Un surveillant 2. Un tableau noir 3. Un tableau interactif 4. Un pupitre 5. Un maître/une maîtresse 6. Un prof 7. Le directeur 8. La craie 9. Une veste 10. Une cravate 11. Une punition 12. Les prières 13. Une trique 14. Les ordinateurs

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LESSON 2

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Vrai ou Faux (Use the vocabulary list to help you) 1.Maintenant, il y a les tableaux noirs dans les salles de classe 2.Pendant les années soixantes, il y avait les pupitres dans les salles de classes 3.Maintenant, il y a beaucoup d’ordinateurs 4.Pendant les années soixantes, il y avait des punitions physiques 5.Maintenant, il y a un uniforme scolaire dans les écoles en Angleterre 6.Pendant les années soixantes, on portait une cravate pour aller à l’école 7.Maintenant, on dit les prières à l’école 8.Pendant les années soixantes, le prof écrivait à la craie

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Objectives To revise vocabulary about school life To recognise phrases which say what people used to do To learn about school life in France in the 60s through watching extracts from the film “Le petit Nicolas” To write some sentences about Nicolas’s school life

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. 1. Un surveillant 2. Un tableau noir 3. Un tableau interactif 4. Un pupitre 5. Un maître/une maîtresse 6. Un prof 7. Le directeur 8. La craie 9. Une veste 10. Une cravate 11. Une punition 12. Les prières 13. Une trique 14. Les ordinateurs

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. On portait Le prof écrivait On disait On ne portait pas Il y avait Il n’y avait pas de Le prof écrit Il y a Il n’y a pas de On dit On porte On ne porte pas

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. 1. There is 2. There isn’t 3. You wear 4. You don’t wear 5. You say 6. The teacher writes 7. There was 8. There wasn’t 9. You used to wear 10. You didn’t use to wear 11. You used to say 12. The teacher used to write

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. 1.Nicolas portait Dans sa salle de classe, il y avait Il n’y avait pas de Nicolas travaillait sur La maîtresse écrivait avec

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. What questions are you going to ask them?

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. LESSON 3

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. a.Il y avait des tables et des bancs b.Il y a des tables et des bancs a. Le prof écrit avec.... b.Le prof écrivait avec a.On portait un uniforme scolaire b.On porte un uniforme scolaire a.On va à l’école à pied b.On allait à l’école à pied a.Les punîtions étaient rigoureuses b.Les punitions ne sont pas rigoureuses B/W Photo of old classroom Teacher writing on interactive board B/W photo pupils walking to school Cartoon of teacher running a detention Modern children in uniform

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. More practice recognising the “imperfect” tense Complete preparing your description of what your mum/dad/gran’s school life was like

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Il y a Il y avait

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. On porte On portait PHOTO

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Les punitions étaient rigoureuses Les punitions sont rigoureuses PHOTO

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. On va au collège On allait au collège....

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme. Le prof écrit... Le prof écrivait.... This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expiredpublic domain

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme..... ma mère/mon père/ ma grandmère/ mon grandpère/ ma tante Il/ Elle allait à l’école en/ à (= where) Normalement, il/elle allait (how) Il/elle portait Il/Elle apprenait Dans les salles de classe, il y avait il n’y avait pas de Les punitions étaient