Although not a French celebration, the excitement of Bonfire night provides a simple way to review adjectives, in this case colours, before moving on to the agreement of adjectives.
At KS1 play recognition and speaking games to remind children of 4 colours Рred, blue, green and yellow. Next watch this video and ask which words they heard Р4 colours and regardez/̩coutez. Did they hear the word fireworks make? What was it? Say that when they watch again, they will do a loud clap for the Boums. If the class is not already in a circle, get them to sit in one now and give each a small colour card. They are asked to listen out for their colour word and shoot up like a firework when they hear it in the song. For a final rendition, the children will clap for the Boums as well as be fireworks for the colours. We finished up by making a colourful firework 'burst' with flattened cup-cake cases.
At KS2, start off with a Rally Robin activity for colours – as many as they know - for listening/speaking practice - before Quiz, Quiz, Trade with word cards. For the next part of the lesson, I got inspiration from the Janet Lloyd Network Firework blogpost. Introduce some firework nouns - singular/plural and masculine/feminine – and play a variety of listening and speaking games. Ask how we could combine colours and nouns into sentences. Which word/words have we not practised yet? Who can remember them? Demonstrate sentence with actions then show same/another masculine noun and colour. Work with partner to agree on action sentence and then write it on mini-board. Do several more in this way asking children to pick noun/colour. Next show masculine plural nouns. What do we have to remember now? Collaborative writing work as above. Continue in a similar way with feminine nouns. Ask for volunteers to come to the front to mime sentences. Can you say it/write it? Then continue in pairs. Can you challenge yourself to write longer sentences using more than one noun and adjective?
Could also adapt an activity called Roll it, Read it, Write it which Lively Languages shared at the recent ALL 3Rs session in Manchester. In my version of this, each pair of students would have 2 dice. On the board would be listed what each rolled number would mean so 1 dot on the first die might be 'le feu d'artifice', 2 dots 'les feux d'artifices', and on the second, 1 dot could be 'jaunes', 2 dots 'bleu', etc. Children write all the words they roll on their white-boards and need to keep checking if their words can be combined with est/sont to form a grammatically accurate sentence at which point the game is over and they have won.
Could also adapt an activity called Roll it, Read it, Write it which Lively Languages shared at the recent ALL 3Rs session in Manchester. In my version of this, each pair of students would have 2 dice. On the board would be listed what each rolled number would mean so 1 dot on the first die might be 'le feu d'artifice', 2 dots 'les feux d'artifices', and on the second, 1 dot could be 'jaunes', 2 dots 'bleu', etc. Children write all the words they roll on their white-boards and need to keep checking if their words can be combined with est/sont to form a grammatically accurate sentence at which point the game is over and they have won.
We will finish with a worksheet including a ‘coloriage magique’ which focusses on the parts of speech we’ve used in our lesson as well as some colourful firework sentences.
Update:
Coloriages magiques and sentences completed yesterday.
Update:
Coloriages magiques and sentences completed yesterday.