1. City of Edinburgh French Early Level
Greetings

2. Early Level Significant Aspects of Learning
Use language in a range of contexts and across learning
Develop confidence and enthusiasm to communicate using the language being learnt
Begin to develop an awareness of other countries, cultures and languages
Listen and join in with simple songs, stories and rhymes
Explore and recognise patterns and sounds of language through listening, watching and playing
Understand, respond to and say simple greetings and personal information (e.g. name)
Repeat and understand simple familiar language from a familiar source
Actively take part in simple daily routine language
Participate in familiar games including outdoor learning
Begin to explore resources to support my learning e.g. picture dictionaries

3. Vocabulary
1. Greetings
Build into daily routines starting with Bonjour and Au revoir and then gradually adding in more vocabulary as learners progress.
Bonjour Hello
Bonjour Madame! Hello Miss
Bonjour Monsieur! Hello Sir
Salut! Hi
On fait l’appel We will take the register
Fais dodo Go to sleep
Bonne nuit Goodnight
Au revoir Goodbye

4. Bonjour!

5. Bonjour Madame!

6. Bonjour Monsieur!

7. Salut!

8. On fait l’appel!
You can take the register and ask pupils to say Bonjour (Madame/Monsieur) when you call their name.

9. Fais dodo

10. Bonne nuit!

11. Embedding the language
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.
Use Fais dodo and bonne nuit with a French puppet. You can “put him to bed” at the end of a French lesson getting the class to say “Fais dodo + name” and then saying bonne nuit to him instead of goodbye .

12. 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.

13. Activité 1
Bonjour ou Bonne nuit?

14. Bonjour ou Bonne nuit?
Pupils look at the selection of photos and then decide if they would say this is bonjour or bonne nuit?
This can be further extended to create a wall display if doing day and night paintings for example.
Bonjour ou Bonne nuit? Look at the photos and decide if you would say Bonjour (literally this means good day) or Bonne nuit (good night).
I have experienced the wonder of looking at the vastness of the sky, and can recognise the sun, moon and stars and link them to daily patterns of life.
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15. Bonjour ou bonne nuit? les photos Regardez décidez si et ou Bonjour!
Hello or Good night? Look at the photos and decide if you would say Bonjour or Bonne nuit. ou
Bonjour!
Bonne nuit!

16. Bonjour ou bonne nuit?

17. Bonjour ou bonne nuit?

18. Bonjour ou bonne nuit?

19. Bonjour ou bonne nuit?

20. Bonjour ou bonne nuit?

21. Bonjour ou bonne nuit?

22. Activité 2
Toc toc toc!

23. Toc, toc, toc!
Toc, toc, toc! Is the French equivalent of knock, knock, knock!
If you are using a puppet for French, you can keep it in a box with a lid on it (its bed) and ask the pupils to knock on the door to wake him/her up by saying
“Toc, toc, toc”.
When he “wakes up” they can then say Bonjour! to the puppet.
When it’s time for him to go back to bed, they can then say “Fais dodo, au revoir, bonne nuit” etc.
If you like you can also add in “réveille-toi” which means wake up.
Toc, toc, toc! means knock, knock, knock.

24. Activité 3
Bonjour circles
Bonjour tout le monde!

25. Bonjour circles
Sitting or standing in a circle, pupils pass around a teddy/toy whilst counting or singing.
Whoever the teddy stops on, then has to say Bonjour tout le monde! To the whole group, who should then respond by saying, “bonjour” + the pupil’s name e.g. Bonjour Anna!
You can extend this by adding in Au revoir tout le monde and/or asking names when you have covered this.

26. 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.

28. Deux petits oiseaux
Deux petits oiseaux Assis sur une branche Je m’appelle Fifi Je m’appelle Blanche Au revoir Fifi Au revoir Blanche
This is two little dickie birds but in French. It translates as “Two little birds, sitting on a branch, I’m called Fifi, I’m called Blanche, Goodbye Fifi, Goodbye Blanche. The following slide links to a clip of this on youtube.

32. Au revoir! - song
Hyperlink to Mama Lisa’s World for song and translation.

33. Au revoir! - song
Image is a hyperlink to Mamalisa.com. Class will sing Alain Le Lait French and English song Au Revoir

34. Au revoir!