Key Stage 4 French: January in France: Weather, sports, countries and holidays

Welcome to the first installment!

This installment explores the weather associated with January in France and it looks at some sport and introduces four different countries with the capitals and their prepositions.

The contained vocabulary is as follows:
Quel temps fait-il?
C’est quel mois? / Quel mois nous sommes?
C’est janvier
C’est quelle saison? / Quelle saison nous sommes?
C’est l’hiver
En hiver
Il neige / Il est neigeux
Il fait froid
Il fait mauvais / Il fait un mauvais temps

Telling the temperature
Il fait combien de degrés?
Il fait deux degrés
Il fait zéro degré
Il fait moins un degré
Il fait moins deux degrés

Cities
à Paris
à Londres
à Shanghaï
à Tokyo

Countries
Masculine
le Japon / au Japon
le Royaume-Uni / au Royaume-Uni

Feminine
la Chine / en Chine
la France / en France

Use of the ‘y’ pronoun
Est-ce que tu es habitué(e) au temps froid? Oui j’y suis habitué(e)

Sport and using the preposition ‘en’
Faire du ski
Est-ce que tu fais du ski? Oui, j’en fais

The verb ‘croire’ in the present tense

The powerpoint contains a story with questions in English with follow-up reinforcement activities and a translation quiz.

There is also an accompanying workbook which also contains the story with various different activities in the workbook.

This powerpoint contains the following materials:

Powerpoint
Accompanying workbook
Vocabulary handout with various sports, activities and countries
The verb ‘croire’ in the present tense
Wordsearch on the countries and capitals with the prepositions
Battleships game worksheet in order to reinforce learning
Transcription of the listening activities
Audio file of the listening comprehension
A bingo sheet to review the vocabulary

Happy teaching and learning!