2. City of Edinburgh French Early Level Feelings

3. Vocabulary 2. Feelings Initially teacher can ask the question and start with 3 (e.g.) possible responses. This can progress to the learners using Et toi? and then adding in more responses and Ça va? as they grow more confident. Ça va?How are you? Ça va bienI am well Ça vaI am fine Comme ci comme ça So-so Ça ne va pas I am not good Ça va mal I am bad Et toi?And you? You can also use Comment ça va? Which means How are you?

4. Ça va?

5. Ça va bien!

6. Ça va

7. Comme ci, comme ça!

8. Ça ne va pas!

9. Ça va mal!

10. Et toi?

11. Embedding the language Start each day with asking Ça va? Around the class. Create Ça va? cards for pupils with printed off miniature copies of the smileys. Ask Ca va? at the start of the day, after break, after lunch and ask pupils to choose their answer and say it to a partner or around the class. I am aware of and able to express my feelings and am developing the ability to talk about them. HWB 0-01a / HWB 1-01a / HWB 2-01a / HWB 3-01a / HWB 4-01a

12. Sample activities You will find a bank of sample activities which you can use to practice 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.

13. Activité 1 Ça va around the world!

14. Ça va? around the world 1.Look at the faces in the following photos, decide on how the person is feeling and then say what this is in French. 2.You can also make the face of the person in the picture! I am aware of and able to express my feelings and am developing the ability to talk about them. HWB 0-01a / HWB 1-01a / HWB 2-01a / HWB 3-01a / HWB 4-01a

15. Regardezles visages décidez siet

16. Ça va?

26. Activité 2 Ça va feelings cards

27. Feelings cards 1.Sitting in a circle, the teacher places pictures of smileys into the centre e.g. happy, sad, straight line face etc. 2.All pupils then ask the teacher, “Ça va?” 3.The teacher responds with a feeling and chooses one pupil to pick a smiley which matches that feeling from the centre. 4.This can be extended by that pupil then being the next to answer Ça va?

28. Activité 3 Ça va charades! Ça va bien! Comme ci comme ça Ça ne va pas!

29. Feelings cards 1.Pupils sit in a circle or at front of class. 2.Teacher creates a set of cards with different feelings written on them and places them in the centre of a circle. 3.One pupil comes out to the front and chooses a card. 4.They then have to act out the feeling on that card and the rest should try and guess what the feeling is.

30. Activité 5 Chair spin Ça va!

31. 1.One pupil comes out to the front of the class and sits on the teacher’s spinny chair! 2.The teacher turns the chair to face the wall and so that the pupil is facing away from the class. 3.The pupil then has to put an expression of a feeling on their face before the teacher turns them round to face the class, keeping the same expression! 4.The rest of the class then have to guess the feeling that the pupil is acting out. 5.The winner goes next!

32. Activité 6 Situation Ça va!

33. 1.Look at the pictures and ask pupils to say how they would feel in these situations e.g. Ça va bien in a beach picture. 2.If they don’t know they can use: Je ne sais pas (I don’t know)

34. Regardez les photos décidez siet

35. If you don’t know, you can say… Je ne sais pas! (I don’t know)

36. Ça va?

47. Songs! You will find a bank of sample songs 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.

48. Bonjour Bonjour (and Ça va) song

49. Ça va song

50. 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. ICT Resources online

51. BBC Primary French

52. Victoria Languages Online How are you?

53. Au revoir!