1 - If You Could Not Read the Menu ~5 mins
Imagine you are sitting in a French café. The menu is all in French and you cannot read a word. What would you order?
Take a moment to think. Today you will learn eight food words so you can recognise them on a menu and follow a short spoken order. By the end you will not be pointing helplessly at the menu: you will know eight foods by name, article and all.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Recognise eight common food words in French
- Follow a short spoken order in a café
- Label the foods on a French lunch tray
2 - Eight French Foods ~10 mins
Here are today's eight food words, in two sets of four. Listen to each word, then say it back together. Watch which ones take le, which take la, and which take les. You learn the article with the word, as a pair.
3 - Listen to the Café Order ~10 mins
First we warm up our ears with a few short orders, then you will hear a full order in a French café. Listen all the way through twice before you answer anything, then choose the best answers about what was ordered.
4 - Into Your Copy ~3 mins
Open your copy and write the three foods from today you would most like to eat, with their articles, and one you would not. Take care with the accents on pâtes and gâteau.
5 - Label the Cantine Tray ~10 mins
This is a French school lunch tray (a cantine tray): starter, main and a little something sweet, all laid out. The labels are missing. Volunteers place the correct French word on each dish on the board. While a volunteer labels, everyone else holds up fingers for the article (1 = le, 2 = la, 3 = les) and whispers the full pair.
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