F2.07 weather v16

Early Start French 2

2.7 Quel temps fait-il? 2 What’s the weather like? 2

In Early Start French 1 pupils were introduced to the language they need to talk about the weather. This new weather section will enable them to identify a wider range of types of weather in French, and to say what the weather is like in particular places - using the place names they met in CH2.01.

Using the internet, they can also observe the changing weather in France from day to day - perhaps comparing with the climate patterns in your own country.

NEW WORDS AND PHRASES

Quel temps fait-il à (Calais)?

What’s the weather like in (Calais)? le temps est orageux it’s stormy il y a du tonnerre et des éclairs there’s thunder and lightning il y a du brouillard it’s foggy

Films to see

il y a des averses there are showers

A1 - What’s the weather like? 2 A2 - SONG “A Calais il fait mauvais”

REMINDER

Planning your lessons

il fait beau il fait mauvais il fait chaud il fait froid il fait gris il pleut il neige il y a du soleil il y a du vent

Before watching film A1, talk about the patterns of weather in France compared with where you live. This section is all about what the weather is like in different places in France and the UK. It will really help if you can have a large map of France on display.

Activities

Warm up

You could start the lesson by asking the children what the weather is like today using the familiar phrases they met in Early Start French 1. You could extend the questioning by asking if it is raining? Snowing? Is it windy? Is it hot?

Cold? etc.

You could then show the map of France, and talk about what children think the weather might be like in different parts of France.

Which parts will be warmest in summer? (children may know something about the South of France). What would it be like in the Alps or other mountains in winter? See “talking point”.

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it’s nice it’s nasty it’s hot/warm it’s cold it’s cloudy it’s raining it’s snowing it’s sunny it’s windy

see Talking Dictionary

Scene from film A1: animation -“Il y a des averses”.

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2.7 Quel temps fait-il?

KEY SOUNDS

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Listen and enjoy copying these typical sounds: where have you heard them before?

” as in orageux

Heard before in: Scene from film A1: -“A Sars-Poteries il pleut”.

Watch Film A1 ❑ Watch A1: “Quel temps fait-il? 2” which introduces some new weather phrases and shows different weather in a range of towns in France.

neige, bonjour

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Heard before in:

il pleut, deux, bleu

Heard before in:

stylo, beau, oiseau,

as in éclairs We see stormy weather with thunder and lightning over the rooftop : Quel temps fait-il?

Heard before in: école, café, zéro Il pleut. Il y a du tonnerre et des éclairs. Le temps est orageux. as in brouillard Foggy weather: Animation: Il fait gris. Il y a du brouillard.

Heard before in: soleil, famille Showers: Il y a des averses. as in orageux, éclairs, averses We then see a variety of different kinds of brouillard weather - including familiar and new phrases.

Seen before in: deux, gris, chaud Weather song: each line gives the weather at a place in France :

See Talking Dictionary A Calais, il fait mauvais; à Wimereux, il fait beau; Get used to the sounds à Saint Omer, il y a du vent; ❑ Echoing: Show the e-flashcards with sound à Boulogne il fait chaud. on and text off to remind pupils of the weather A Paris, il fait mauvais; phrases they already know from Early Start à Saint-Malo, il fait beau; French 1 and to introduce the new words. à Lyon, il y a du vent; Pupils echo each phrase. Show the pictures à Marseille il fait chaud. again, this time with text on. Pupils echo. Pay Weather in different places in France special attention to “key sounds”.

Children sailing and having fun on the beach at Wimereux: Quel temps fait-il aujourd’hui à Wimereux? Il fait beau; il fait chaud;il y a du soleil.

The Christmas market in Béthune: Quel temps fait-il à Béthune? Il fait gris; il fait froid.

Blue skies in Saint-Omer: A Saint-Omer il fait beau.

Torrential rain in Sars-Poteries: et à Sars-Poteries il pleut; il fait mauvais.

Respond with understanding

❑ Make multiple copies of the weather pictures on the activity sheets and give ONE picture to each pupil. When you call out, e.g. “il y a des averses”, the pupils with the “showers” card hold up it for everyone to see. It is a good idea to include familiar weather phrases as well as the new ones.

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Early Start French 2 ❑ To make this into a game, divide the class into two teams. Each team has an identical set of weather pictures (one for each child).

When you call out the weather, e.g. “il y a du brouillard”, the pupils holding the fog picture try to be first to jump up and echo “il y a du brouillard”.

Working in pairs

❑ Pupils can play “snap” with the pictures on the activity sheets - together with weather pictures from Early Start French 1. They call out the weather in French when two cards are the same. ❑ Pupils can use their puppets to have conversations about the weather.

❑ Make multiple copies of the weather pictures from the activity sheet. Give a picture to each child in the class. Move around the room asking each pupil, “Quel temps fait-il?”. Pupils respond according to the picture they hold.

Watch film A1 again

❑ Watch film A1: “Quel temps fait-il? 2” again for reinforcement.

❑ TV weather presenters Pupils will be familiar with the way weather forecasters use symbols to show what the weather is like in different parts of the country.

Prepare a large map of France (you could enlarge the map from ch.2.1). Label towns on the map that are relevant to your pupils. Make sets of weather symbols from the activity sheet, laminate them to withstand regular use, and find a way to stick them to the map (e.g. velcro).

Look again at sounds

❑ Pick out several “key sounds”, e.g. the “g” sound in “orageaux”. Ask the children to think of as many words as they can which contain that sound.

Introducing the written word

❑ Play “word snake” Display on the board, a sentence with the spaces and punctuation removed, e.g.

“ACalaisilyadubrouillard”.

Ask the class to help you put them back, then you say the sentence: “A Calaisil y a du brouillard”.

When children have got the idea, give them other “word snakes” to do in pairs.

Weather symbols can be found at the end of this chapter

Spot the SILENT letters

The children can take it in turns to be TV weather presenters. As they attach symbols to different towns, they say “à Lille il y a du soleil”, “à Calais il pleut” etc. If you need to prompt anyone, you can ask, “Quel temps fait-il à Paris?”

In the “TV presenter” role, pupils can greet the viewers and say goodbye in French.

Alternatively, the weather page of the BBC website www.bbc.co.uk is a very good source for displaying the weather in most French towns and cities. Just key in the name of the town in “Find a forecast” and the weather for the week appears in a simple format including a map of France showing the town.

❑ Show the e-flashcards with text ON (or write on the board). With the word “averses”, (showers), for example, point to each “s” as you say the phrase “il y a des averses”; pupils say “oui” if they can hear the “s” and “non” if they can’t.

NOTE: the “s’ in “des” is heard because it is followed by a vowel.

CROSS-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

❑ Daily routines: “What’s the weather?”

Continue asking pupils “Quel temps fait-il?” each morning as part of your routine of greetings, taking the register, asking the date, etc. ❑ Daily routine/ICT/Geography: “Quel temps fait-il en France?”

Pupils can use the internet to research what the weather is like in France. Use the BBC website or a French website, e.g. www.meteofrance.com

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2.7 Quel temps fait-il? ❑ Music: singing about the weather

Watch film A2 - song

Talking point 1

Watch film A2 song:“A Calais il fait mauvais”.

Pupils can join in with the French children in the film. They can also sing by themselves using the karaoke version of the song. ❑ Ask children to clap on each syllable as they SAY the words. Can they pick out the rhymes?

A / Ca-/lais / il / fait / mau-/vais;

à / Wim-/ (e)reux / il / fait / beau; à / Saint-/ O-/mer / il / y a / du / vent; à Bou- /logne / il / fait / chaud.

Can they make up their own version of the song using UK towns or other French towns?

France’s diverse climate

Because France is so big - twice the size of Britain - the weather varies quite a lot from one part of the country to another. Perhaps that is why 9 out of 10 French people take holidays in their own country: they can have a change without leaving France!

There are three zones with different climate patterns:Atlantic & Channel coastal climate Around these coasts, the sea keeps the climate rainy, but quite mild. Summers are not so hot as inland; winters not so cold.

The film shows the weather at different times of year in the Nord-Pas de Calais region. Westerly winds blow up the Channel, making the north one of the wetter parts of the country, and also quite windy.

Add to your “en France” display

Ask your partner school to email pictures which show their town and surrounding areas at different times of year.

“Imaginary Town” project

Pupils can talk about what they think the weather would be in their imaginary town.

Town Guide project

❑ Pupils can find out about weather patterns in your area, and compare with the climate where possible French visitors come from.

■ If visitors are coming from the South of France, what would they think of your weather?

■ Where would pupils suggest French visitors might go in bad weather?

Wimd-power in Boulogne on the Channel coast.

Further south on the Atlantic coast towards Biarritz, it is warmer, but still quite fresh. Moist winds from the Atlantic bring plenty of rain.

Electricity from wind France uses little wind-power, because it has so many nuclear power stations. “Wind farms” are now being built on suitable coastal sites to generate “green” electricity without polluting the environment or burning fossil fuels.

Inland “Continental” climate Inland away from the coast, the climate has more extremes - typical of the Continent: summers are hotter than on the coast, but winters are much colder.

❑ Drama: Play “the miming game” Pupils work in pairs. Give each pair a picture showing a kind of weather. Use familiar weather pictures from Early Start French 1 and the new ones from this chapter. They have 5 minutes to prepare a mime to represent this weather. There are lots of extra possiblilities now that they can include stormy weather, thunder and lightning and fog!

They can use speech only if it is in French (e.g. greetings, asking directions etc.) but NOT, of course, to say what the weather is!

Each pair performs their mime to the rest of the class, who guess what the weather is.

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Early Start French 2 In July-August, many families from inland towns spend a whole month on holiday by the coast - leaving inland towns half empty, with many shops and restaurants shut.

50% of French holiday-makers go the seaside.

At the start and end of the holidays, there are massive 24-hour jams on the motorways.

Mountains In the mountainous regions (the Alps and the Pyrenees) there is lots of snow in the winter, with temperatures well below freezing.

Mont Blanc in the French Alps is the highest mountain peak in Europe (4,807m).

Skiing is no.5 in French men’s favourite sports.

20% of French holidays are in the mountains.

Mediterranean climate: South of France Down towards the Mediterranean, the South has the warmest climate, with hot summers when the forests get so dry there is a danger of forest fires. Winters are mild - it rarely snows.

The island of Corsica (Corse) is further south and even warmer, except up in the mountains.

The Mistral In the South of France, a cold wind, “le Mistral”, sometimes blows down to the coast at up to 100 km/hour. Local people get bad-tempered because the non-stop wind is unpleasant.

It blows tiles off roofs, so people weigh them down with stones. They joke with tourists that the wind blows stones up onto their houses!

= Mountains = Inland “Continental” climate = Atlantic & Channel coastal climate = “Mediterranean” climate - South of France MAP: The different Climate Zones in France

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Quel temps fait-il?

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Je m’appelle ..........................

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