French Level 1

Greetings

Vocabulary1. GreetingsBuild into daily routines starting with Bonjour and Au revoir and then gradually adding in more vocabulary as learners progress.

Bonjour Hello Bonjour tout le monde! Hello everyone! Bonjour Madame! Hello MissBonjour Monsieur! Hello SirSalut! Hi On fait l’appel We will take the registerAu revoir Goodbye Fais dodo Go to sleep Bonne nuit! Good night!Bon week-end Have a nice weekendA demain! See you tomorrow!

Bonjour tout le monde!

Bonjour Madame!

Bonjour Monsieur!

Salut!

On fait l’appel!

Au revoir!

A demain!

Bon week-end!

Fais dodo

Bonne nuit!

Embedding the language

Using the greetings as part of everyday routine in class e.g. Bonjour at the start of everyday, à demain at the end of the day and bon week-end on a Friday at the end of the school day!

Do the register in French each morning – teacher says, “on fait l’appel” and pupils respond with “bonjour”.

Use a Bonjour song and/or an Au revoir song at the start and end of 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.

Bonjour et au revoir1. Pupils walk around the class whilst some French

music plays. As they walk around, they should greet each other saying Bonjour!

2. Teacher then plays more lively music and everyone skips and mimes wearing a backpack and waving to each other and saying “à demain!” to each other.

3. Music gets even livelier and pupils now dance about saying “bon week-end!”

4. Lastly the music is sad and they pretend to cry and look sad, waving each other goodbye saying “au revoir!”

Ecoutez la musique…

et signez bonjour avec la main!

…dites bonjour...

…marchez…

Ecoutez la musique…

et signez au revoir avec la main!

…dites à demain...

sautillez…

Ecoutez la musique…

et signez au revoir avec la main!

…dites bon week-end...

…dansez…

Ecoutez la musique…

et signez au revoir avec la main!

…dites au revoir...

…pleurez…

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.

Bonjour, Salut song

Bonjour tout le monde

Au revoir! – song lyricsThese go with the song on the next slide

La journée est finie! The day is finishedC’est le temps de te dire It’s time to say to youMerci, à la prochaine Thanks, see you next time!

La journée est finie! The day is finishedC’est le temps de te dire It’s time to say to youMerci, à demain. Thanks, see you tomorrow!

La journée est finie! The day is finishedC’est le temps de te dire It’s time to say to youMerci, à bientôt! Thanks, see you soon!

La journée est finie! The day is finished!C’est le temps de te dire It’s time to say to you!Merci, au revoir! Thanks, goodbye!

Au revoir song

Au revoir! – song lyricsThese go with the song on the next slide

Au revoir, au revoir Goodbye, goodbyeOn s’est bien amusés We’ve had lots of funAu revoir, au revoir Goodbye, goodbyeOn a bien chanté We sang well Au revoir, au revoir Goodbye, goodbyeOn s’est bien amusés We’ve had lots of funAu revoir, au revoir ` Goodbye, goodbyeOn a bien chanté We sang well

Au revoir Lucia Goodbye LuciaAu revoir Cosmo Goodbye CosmoAu revoir Wen Goodbye WenOn rechantera bientôt We will sing again soonAu revoir Luc Goodbye LucAu revoir les enfants Goodbye childrenAu revoir Madame Goodbye MadameOn est tres contents! We are very happy!

La journée se termine, The day is overC’est l’heure des au revoir It’s time for goodbyesOn va tous se dire au revoir We are all going to say goodbyeVous êtes prêts? Are you ready?

Au revoir song

Au revoir!