Year 2/3 Lingey Lions
'Un, deux, trois' - This is a song some Y5 girls have made up and recorded - an excellent way of remembering your numbers (bravo, les filles - well done, girls). Question - how many does it go up to?
At Lingey House, we sing lots of songs in French. Songs are a great way of remembering vocabulary (that's a posh word that means...'words'!). Oh, and singing is also lots of fun!
Here
is a recording of one of the songs that we regularly perform in French lessons.
It's Y4 singing the song that we
learned when The Sage came to Lingey House to perform their production 'La
Chanson du Retour' (The Song to Return). Almost the whole school watched it last year - it was the play with the blue man ('Bleu') and the magic lights on the characters' fingers.
Do you remember it? Younger children can listen out for 'Bleu', while older children can listen for all the colours.
An extra challenge - which of the question words can you hear?
This term, we are learning how to introduce ourselves.
This includes how to say name, age, where you live and which language or
languages you speak.
Here is a quick review of the vocabulary
Comment t'appelles-tu? - What are you called?
Je m'appelle... - I'm called...
Quel âge as-tu ? - How old are you?
J'ai....ans - I'm ... years old
Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël!
Did you know that French children don't have stockings for presents - instead, they put their shoes in front of the fireplace, so that Père Noël (Father Christmas) can fill them with presents! Children also find that sweets, fruit, nuts, and small toys are hung on the Christmas tree (le sapin de Noël) overnight.
Here are the names of Père Noël 's reindeer in French:
un crayon a
pencil
un stylo a
pen
une gomme a
rubber
un taille-crayon a
pencil sharpener
une règle a
ruler
une trousse a
pencil case
une calculette a
calculator
un compas a
compass
un livre a
book
un cahier an
exercise book
la colle glue
des feutres felt
tip pens
Bonjour tout le monde!
Another snow poem for you ...
Comme il neige
Comme il neige
On ne peut plus aller à la mer.
Comme il neige
Comme il neige
Il fait très froid dehors.
Comme il neige
Comme il neige
Dehors, j'ai construit un igloo, dans le froid, avec mes amis.
You might know some of the words already - il neige (it's snowing), il fait froid (it's cold), très (very), mes amis (my friends). You can also see a word the same as English (called a 'cognate') on the last line - igloo.
See how much of the poem you can understand, then scroll down to see the translation.
Don't forget, it doesn't matter if you don't understand all of a text - just try to understand the main messages.