Year 8 French Vocabulary and Grammar PDF

TASK PREPARATION: Students should review the vocabulary and language structures for UNIT 1. - Greetings, introducing yourself, giving your nationality, giving your age, your birthday - Describing yourself - Say if you have brothers, sisters - Say what you like/ not like and give reasons - Talk...

TASK PREPARATION: Students should review the vocabulary and language structures for UNIT 1. - Greetings, introducing yourself, giving your nationality, giving your age, your birthday - Describing yourself - Say if you have brothers, sisters - Say what you like/ not like and give reasons - Talk about someone in the family or a friend Students should be able to write about themselves and someone else (eg. a brother, sister or friend) Students should practise using the following tools/strategies: - Create flashcards with key vocabulary and sentences in French - Use Education Perfect to revise vocabulary and listen to recordings - Use Sentence builder tables to create a variety of sentences (use a mini whiteboard to write them) Learning intentions: Learn to greet people in French at different times of the day Learn to introduce yourself in French and ask for names Task 1. Let's learn greetings! Video – to introduce greetings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwmrMVsU3uU 1. How do you spell that? When you introduce yourself in French you might have to spell your name. You might also need to write someone’s name. How would you ask and reply? You will need the following: Learning intentions: Learn to ask and say where you live Learn to use the verb 'habiter' in the 1st, 2nd Additional- Learn to use the verb in 3rd person Look at the following short conversation: What do you think the underlined question and sentences mean? Key structures Tu habites où? Let's practise… Bonjour je m'appelle Pierre et je suis anglais. J'habite à Londres en France. Salut je m'appelle Jeanne et je suis italien. J'habite à Sydney en Australie. Bonjour elle s'appelle Jeanne et elle est espagnol elle habite a rn Australie. Patrick : Salut ! Comment tu t’appelles ? T4 Jeanne : Je m’appelle Jeanne. Et toi ? Patrick : Je m’appelle Patrick…Tu habites où ? Jeanne : Moi, j’habite à Paris en France. Patrick : À Paris ! Génial ! Jeanne : Et toi ? Tu habites où ? Patrick : J’habite à Sydney en Australie. Jeanne : Ah ! L’Australie, c’est super ! Patrick : Au revoir Jeanne. Jeanne : Au revoir et bonne journée ! Are there any new words ? What do you think they mean? J'habite … Il habite… Elle habite… Practice- Speaking & Writing With a partner or in the group, make up sentences using the table above. Your partner will say it back to you in English and check it is correct. Then swap. Once you have practised speaking with your partner, in your exercise book, make up 8 sentences using the table / tables above. 9. How old are you? Monday, 24 February 2025 8:00 AM Learn to ask and say how old you are Learn to use numbers 1-20 in French (must) Learn the numbers to 31 (should) Learn the numbers to 100 (could) 1. Learning the numbers 1-20 Let's watch the following video. French Numbers 1 to 20 (French Essentials Lesson 2) What are the numbers? Quick checking in … Write the missing number as a word in Spanish. 1 un 11 onze 2 deux 12 3 13 4 14 quatorze 5 cinq 15 quinze 6 16 seize  7 17 8 huit 18 dix-huit 9 19 10 dix 20 Can you do the numbers up to 31? 21 vingt-et-un 27 22 vingt-deux 28 23 29 24 30 25 31 26 Now let's listen to the numbers again ! And you can sing it out! Les chiffres et les nombres de 1 a 20 - alain le lait (French numbers from 1 to 20)  2. Talking about ages Your teacher will play the following videos. quel age as tu?.m4v Your age in French 3. Sentence Builders  4. What is the question to ask someone how old they are? What are the common words used when responding ? Birthdays Monday, 24 March 2025 11:57 AM Je m'appelle Bianca et mon amie, elle s'appelle Pheobe. Mon anniversaire, c'est le vingt- trois septembre. Son anniversaire c'est le vingt-cinq octobre. Learn to say the date and understand dates in general for events etc. 1. Learn the days of the week…Watch the video The French Days of the Week (French Essentials Lesson 4) What are the days of the week in French? Write them below: Lundi Monday Mardi Tuesday Mercredi Wednesday Jeudi Thursday Vendredi Friday Samedi Saturday Dimanche Sunday Alexa introduces a new sentence structure to say 'My favourite day is ….' Can you write it below in French and complete it with what your favourite day is ? 2. How to say the date in French… Look at the following sentences and study them: Today , it is the ( day of the week) + (number day) + (month) Can you write in French a full sentence for what the date is today? Follow the formula above.  Aujourd'hui, c'est le mercredi deux mars. Now write the following dates in French. Follow the formula above. 1. Today, it is (the) Tuesday, 20th August. Aujourd'hui c'est le mardi vingt août 2. Today, it is (the) Friday, 14th July. Aujourd'hui c'est le vendredi quatorze 3. Today, it is (the) Thursday, 30th January. Aujourd'hui c'est le jeudi trente janvier 4. Today, it is (the) Wednesday, 1st September. Aujourd'hui c'est le mercredi premier septembre 3. Now log into the Education Perfect Website. Complete the task assigned 'Dates and Birthdays'. Here is a direct link to it: https://app.educationperfect.com/app/dashboard/homework/10892655 Sunday, 6 April 2025 1:01 PM TASK- Create a variety of sentences to say what you like, don't like, prefer, and give reasons. Make about 10 different sentences in French. Once you finish creating the sentences, pair up with a partner and select different sentences to say them to your partner. Your partner will say it out to you in English. If totally correct, she will bet a point. Swap roles. Key Structure Activity Connectors Verb To Adjectives emphasise (Like / not (to (to give like) connect reasons) reason) J'aime J'aime beaucoup écouter de amusant (fun) la musique J'adore parce que c'est très ennuyeux danser (boring) (because) ( it is ) (very) Je n'aime pas cuisiner génial (great) Je n'aime pas et (and) du tout étudier nul (bad, vraiment rubbish) (really) Je préfère (I prefer) regarder mais (but) ce n'est difficile des films pas (difficult) (it is not) dormir facile (easy) Mon amie aime… aussi (also) Mon amie jouer au fatigant (tiring) n'aime pas… football passionnant Ma soeur lire (exciting) aime… Ma soeur chanter intéressant n'aime pas… (interesting) dessiner Mon frère relaxant aime… (relaxing) Mon frère n'aime pas… To like or not to like -Activities+ Reasons Sunday, 6 April 2025 11:30 AM Learning intentions: Learn to say what you like or not like with activities (verbs) Learn to give reasons (adjectives) for liking or not liking an activity (verbs) Giving reasons why? J'aime…. J'aime beaucoup….. Je n'aime pas Je n'aime pas du tout….. USEFUL WORDS MAIS= but AUSSI= also ET = and C'EST= it is Step up… PARCE QUE= because TRÈS = very VRAIMENT= really Répétez! Salut Bonjour Bonne après- Bonsoir (6pm) À demain midi (2pm) Bonne nuit Allô Enchanté Ça va? Au revoir Enchantée Task 2. Let's learn how to introduce yourself! Video /song- To introduce yourself in French https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbQIDw05A8M (up to 1:25) Task 3- Let's practise some more! Salut ! Juliette  Florian Bonjour ! Gérard Henri Bonne après-midi ! Joseph Je m'appelle Adeline Bonsoir ! Océane Nathan Et toi ? Comment tu t'appelles? Observations thus far…. What do you notice about the words and phrases in French? Do they look similar to English? Did you listen to how French sounds? What did you notice? Task 4. You will then play a game with using the language above. Listen for the teacher's instructions. Task 5. Create your mini dialogues… Create 3 different dialogues where people are greeting and introducing themselves in French. To make it more interesting you can include some of the vocabulary introduced in Task 1. >