French Early Level

Les jours de la semaine

Early Level Significant Aspects of Learning

• Explore and recognise patterns and sounds of the language.

• Listen and join in with simple songs and rhymes.

• Actively take part in simple daily routine language

• Participate in familiar games

VocabularyDays of the week Aim to teach all 7 days before leading up to months and birthdays in 1st and 2nd level.

C’est quel jour? What day is it? C’est It’slundi Mondaymardi Tuesdaymercredi Wednesdayjeudi Thursdayvendredi Fridaysamedi Saturdaydimanche Sunday

NB: Days of the week do not have capital letters in French

C’est quel jour?

C’est lundi

C’est mardi

C’est mercredi

C’est jeudi

C’est vendredi

C’est samedi

C’est dimanche

Embedding the language

Use the French day of the week classroom signs (on the website) and ask pupils to pick the correct one each day.

Sample activities You will find a bank of sample activities which you can use to practise the vocabulary in the classroom.

This is not a prescriptive list of activities and you can use or adapt them to suit the needs of your class.

You will find a set of more challenging activities in First Level Greetings.

lundimardi

mercredi jeudi

vendredi samedi

dimanche

C’est quel jour? 1

• Pupils should look at the slides, listen to the day of the week in French and try and match the day of the week to the correct word in English.

• You could support this further by using day of the week fans so that pupils could do their own individual version.

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Tuesday Sunday

Monday Wednesday

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Friday Thursday

Tuesday Sunday

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Saturday Monday

Tuesday Thursday

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Tuesday Sunday

Monday Wednesday

C’est quel jour? 2

• Pupils should look at the slides and try and guest which day of the week it is hidden behind the question mark.

• To support this they could have days of the week on cards in front of them. This can be further supported

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Songs and videos!

You will find a bank of sample songs and videos which you can use to practise the vocabulary in the classroom.

This is not a prescriptive list of songs and you can use or adapt them to suit the needs of your class.

You will find a set of more challenging activities in First Level Days of the Week and Months.

Monde des petits

BBC Primary French chanson!

Les jours de la semaine

You will find a bank of sample ICT activities which you can use to practise the vocabulary in the classroom.

This is not a prescriptive list of activities and you can use or adapt them to suit the needs of your class.

Each of the slides contains an image of the website page. If you click on the image it will take you to the page. Alternatively you can use a link address which you will find in the slide notes.

ICT Resources online

BBC Primary French

Au revoir!