1. French Early Level
Les jours de la semaine

2. 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

3. Vocabulary Days 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’s
lundi Monday
mardi Tuesday
mercredi Wednesday
jeudi Thursday
vendredi Friday
samedi Saturday
dimanche Sunday
NB: Days of the week do not have capital letters in French

4. C’est quel jour?
What day is it?

5. C’est lundi
lundi

6. C’est mardi
mardi

7. C’est mercredi
mercredi

8. C’est jeudi
jeudi

9. C’est vendredi
vendredi

10. C’est samedi
samedi

11. C’est dimanche
dimanche

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. lundi mardi mercredi jeudi vendredi samedi dimanche
Rhyme to practice learning the days in sequence. You can use them as you would for counting games.

15. 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.

16. C’est quel jour?
Tuesday
Sunday
dimanche
Monday
Wednesday

17. C’est quel jour?
Friday
Thursday
vendredi
Tuesday
Sunday

18. C’est quel jour?
Saturday
Monday
samedi
Tuesday
Thursday

19. C’est quel jour?
Tuesday
Sunday
mercredi
Monday
Wednesday

20. 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

21. C’est quel jour? C’est mardi
Mystic cards: Pupils have to guess which day of the week is behind the question mark
MARDI

22. C’est quel jour?
samedi
C’est
SAMEDI

23. C’est quel jour?
mercredi
C’est
MERCREDI

24. C’est quel jour?
C’est
vendredi
VENDREDI

25. C’est quel jour?
C’est
lundi
LUNDI

26. C’est quel jour?
C’est
dimanche
DIMANCHE

27. C’est quel jour?
C’est
jeudi
JEUDI

28. C’est quel jour?
C’est
mardi
MARDI

29. C’est quel jour?
C’est
jeudi
JEUDI

30. C’est quel jour?
C’est
dimanche
DIMANCHE

31. 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.

32. Monde des petits
Links to an animated video and a song for days of the week.

33. BBC Primary French chanson!

34. Les jours de la semaine
Links to an animated video and a song for days of the week.
Il y a 7 jour dans la semaine, il y a sept jour (there are 7 days in the week, there are 7 days in the week)

35. ICT Resources online
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.

36. BBC Primary French

37. Au revoir!