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gladysanne · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject: Ideas?

Am teaching french -Nursery through to Y4 ,and would love to hear any ideas for songs or games .
Game I have played with huge success is "douze". Get children standing in circle, someone starts the count at un and they can choose how many numbers (up to three at a time) they say with next child continuing where first one stopped. person who ends up having to say douze is out and the count starts again. works just as well in English for FS children!
Soz, haven't explained that very well but hope you get the idea!
Really need some up tempo, jazzy french christmas songs or carols, the ones I have come across are soooo boring.

dancingqueen · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:10 pm Post subject:

there are some frech club after school franchises around. maybe you could research them and see if there are any freebie resources!!

Wink

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gladysanne · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject:

they all charge through the nose!
Went on a great course last week about goldilock and the three bears. Boucle d'or et les trois ours en francais!!! stuff should be downloadable at the Northumberland website.

dancingqueen · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:33 pm Post subject:

well my friend has a home in france...i will ask her to look and see what they have...she doesnt speak much french yet though so you could end up with some strange ideas!!

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And quit running for that runaway bus -
Cos those rosey days are few
And - stop apologising for the things you've never done,
Cos time is short and life is cruel -
But it's up to us to change

gladysanne · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject:

Could maybe share some useful vocab with her as in encore un bouteil du vin si vous plait!!

dancingqueen · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:24 pm Post subject:

yea she probably knows that one!!!

she goes to lessons every week!!

but she knows how to order food and booze!! Wink

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Cos those rosey days are few
And - stop apologising for the things you've never done,
Cos time is short and life is cruel -
But it's up to us to change

summertime · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:39 pm Post subject:

there is more to know?

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dancingqueen · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:51 pm Post subject:

of course not!!!! lol

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And quit running for that runaway bus -
Cos those rosey days are few
And - stop apologising for the things you've never done,
Cos time is short and life is cruel -
But it's up to us to change

mizzys · New kid Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 1

Have you tried

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They've got some fab resources (songs, fairytales, games etc.) and the prices are very reasonable.
Our school has just ordered a load of stuff and I can recommend them.

dancingqueen · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:02 pm Post subject:

thanks for the link mizzys!

im sure Tiki will be along later and also post it into the links page

why not pop into introductions and tell us about yourself so we can all say hello and welcome! Smile

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And quit running for that runaway bus -
Cos those rosey days are few
And - stop apologising for the things you've never done,
Cos time is short and life is cruel -
But it's up to us to change

Tiki · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:50 pm Post subject:

What it is to be so predictable DQ. Thanks for the link mizzys, I've added it into our useful links section. Have a look around, we've gathered some great links between us.

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eliza_dolittle · Forum triplet Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 15200

My brother can say lots of ery rude phrases in french Embarassed

dadenuk · Moderator Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 9145

Haven't checked this out yet... but a couple of songs?

Excuse spellings, words a bit changed to fit the tunes... Wink

Figure you(I) can sing, they can do the actions / learn some vocab as they go and join in... particularly the numbers, body parts, colours...

tete, epaules, genou et orteilles, et orteilles... tete, epaules, genou et orteilles, et orteilles... les yeux, bouche, nez et oreilles... tete, epaules, genou et orteilles.

dix bouteilles en vert, avant de la classe, si l'une bouteille devrait tomber par hasard, il y a neuf bouteilles en vert, avant de la classe... and so on.

Rouge et jaune, et vert et bleu, pourpre, orange, et rose, Je peux chanter un arc, un arc, je peux chanter un arc-en-ciel.

Corrections very welcome Smile

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Rosie · Top poster Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 1289

dadenuk wrote:

Haven't checked this out yet... but a couple of songs?

Excuse spellings, words a bit changed to fit the tunes... Wink

Figure you(I) can sing, they can do the actions / learn some vocab as they go and join in... particularly the numbers, body parts, colours...

tete, epaules, genou et orteilles, et orteilles... tete, epaules, genou et orteilles, et orteilles... les yeux, bouche, nez et oreilles... tete, epaules, genou et orteilles.

Corrections very welcome Smile

The version I use goes:

Tete, epaules, genoux, pieds, genoux, pieds,
Tete, epaules, genoux, pieds, genoux, pieds,
Les yeux, les oreilles, la bouche, le nez,
Tete, epaules, genoux, pieds, genoux, pieds,

(If you pronounce epaules as epaulle-uh it fits better with the tune)

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