Ma Chambre

In today’s lesson we are learning vocabulary for

furniture and items in the house. We will be using these

with adjectives and prepositions to describe a photo.

mardi treize juillet

BONJOUR YEAR 8!

Tasks 1-6 = 35 minutes Task 7 = 25 minutes

1. Label the pictures with the correct word in French and English

2. Draw a table with 2 columns for two rooms in a house. List 3 or 4 things you would find in each room.

3. Read about prepositions. Read the descriptions and work out which room the dog is in.

4. Fill in the gaps to describe where the cat and dog are. Extension = choose 4 more pictures and write a

sentence to describe where the dog/cat is.

5. Reading – which picture matches each description. Click the screen to check your answers.

6. Choose the correct adjective or preposition from the options to make a correct sentence.

7. Writing Task. EMAIL your paragraph to your teacher for marking. Choose one of the photos and write a

paragraph to describe it – check the success criteria so you know what to include. Only use vocabulary and

phrases from this week’s and last week’s lessons.

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Instructions for Lesson

Learning Intentions

Aujourd’hui…

1: Learn and practise vocabulary for furniture and items in the house

2: Revise the prepositions

Déjà vu

Prior Learning:

• Using depuis and y• -ER and –RE verbs• Rooms in the house• Prepositions

Future Learning:

Talking about your dream house.

Context: GCSE Theme 1:

Personal identity

What we are going to lock away today: Vocabulary furniture and items in the houseUsing prepositions to describe where something is

À l’avenir

Introduce and describe myself, my family and

my friends

Describe my favourite objects

Talk about school and give my opinion about

subjects

Talk about my leisure activities

Take part in the Spelling Bee and write a letter

Use the definite and indefinite articles

Use adjectives

Use the verbs avoir and être

Use present tense verbs (-er) accurately

Use high frequency structures

Use possessive adjectives – mon/ma

/mes and use connectives

Talk in more detail about my family and my pets

Talk about my character in the past and now

Describe my town, what we can do and ask for /give

directions

Arrange to go out with a friend and tell the time

Talk about food and order food in a restaurant

Talk about the weather and week end activities

Revision of adjectival agreements and present

tense – er verbs and reflexive verbs

Use prepositions

Use the partitive article (du/de la/des)

Use on peut , il faut, je voudrais + infinitive

Use negatives, high frequency phrases and

connectives

Talk about dreamholidays and past

holidays

Talk about festivals and traditions, winter and

summer sports and revision of leisure

activities

Describe body parts and sports injuries

Revision of daily routine and the time

Talk about what you willdo to help others in the

future

Revision of –er verbs and reflexive verbs

Use present tense of –ir/re verbs

Use the near future tensealler + infinitive

Use the past tense withavoir

Use the past tense withêtre (aller)

Describe countries and talk about famous

French people

Discuss TV programmes, music,

film, reading and cartoon chracters

Talk about old and new technology, the pros

and cons of the internet

Revision of present and past tenses

Comparatives and superlatives; using

direct object pronouns

faire + infinitive rendre + adjective

Give opinions using the perfect and imperfect

tenses

Revision of Adjectives

Discuss relationshipswith my parents and family, pocket money and the pressures on

teenagers

Compare what teenagelife was like in the past

Discuss the difficultiesfaced by homeless

children

Discuss healthy eating, how diet affects health

and resolutions

Use food vocaulary and tenses to plan for a

party

Use impersonal structures and the

pronoun en

Revision of the perfect, imperfect and near

future tenses

Expressions of quantity

Use the conditional: on pourrait + infinitive

Year 7 Term 1

Year 7 Term 2

Year 7 Term 3

Year 8 Term 1

Year 8 Term 2

Describe my home, an ideal home and how I

feel about my area

Talk about employment, part time

jobs and future ambitions

Plan my Summerholiday

Using the pronoun y and the present tense

with depuis

Revision of prepositions

Si clauses + imperfect tense and conditional

Masculine and feminine forms of jobs

Using different tenses together and revision: imperfect, conditional,

present tenses

Quand with different tenses

Year 8 Term 3

une table de nuit

une lampe (x2)

un lit

un bureau

une chaise pivotante

un ordi

une étagère

une console de jeux vidéo

un fauteuil poire

a computer

a bedside table

a lamp (x2)

a bed

a desk

a beanbag

a swivel chair

a set of shelves

a games console

Label the pictures with the correct English and French words.

Example: 1 = le lit/a bed

Task 1

FRENCH ENGLISH

1. le lit/ a bed2. une table de nuit / bedside table3. une lampe / a lamo4. une console de jeux / a games console5. un fauteuil poire / a beanbag6. un bureau / a desk7. un ordi / a computer8. une lampe / a lamp9. une chaise pivotante / a swivel chair10.une étagère / a set of shelves

Task 1 - Answers

une commode – chest of drawersune porte - a doorune chaise – a chairune télé – a tvune fenêtre – a windowune table – a tableune moquette – carpetune cuisinière – cooker/ovenune machine à laver – washing machineune douche – showerune console de jeux – games consoleune chaîne hi-fi – stereoune bibliothèque - bookcase

un livre – a bookun nounours – a teddyun mur – a wallun poster – a posterun canapé – a sofaun frigo – a fridgeun four - ovenun micro-ondesun tapis – rugun évier – kitchen sinkun armoire – wardrobeun bain – bathun lavabo – bathroom sinkun miroir – mirrorun congélateur – a freezerun lave-vaisselle – a dishwasherun fauteuil - armchairun ordi – computerun lit – bedun bureau – deskun placard – a cupboard

les rideaux -curtainsdes fleurs – some flowers

la cuisine ma chambre

un four….

un lit

Here are some new words for furniture and things in a room.

• Read through them all, see if you can pronounce them. • Make 3 columns and label with 3 rooms in a house. • For each room, write down 3 or 4 things you would find in that

room.

Task 2

Où est le chien? Where is the dog?

Useful vocab:chercher = to look for

essayons = let’s try/we tryil n’est pas là = it/he isn’t there

ni = neitheril est dans…. – he is in ….

Task 3

sur sous entre

devant derrière en face de

à côté de à gauche à droite

Où est le chien? Où est le chat?

1. Le chat est________la table.

2. Le chien est _______la chaîne hi-fi.

3. Le chien est_______le lit.

4. Le chat est _______la télé.

5. La bibliothèque est ______ le chien

et le chat.

B EXTENSION Now write 4 sentences to describe where the dog/cat is in the pictures.

Task 5

A Look at the pictures and fill in the gaps with the correct prepositions to describe where the dog/cat is.

1. Le chat est_SUR la table.

2. Le chien est DEVANT la chaîne hi-fi.

3. Le chien est_SUR le lit.

4. Le chat est DERRIÈRE la télé.

5. La bibliothèque est ENTRE le chien

et le chat.

Task 5 - Answers

Lis les textes et choisis la bonne image.

1. Dans ma chambre il y a un livre sur le

lit. Il y a un bureau et une commode

devant le lit mais il n’y a pas de

télévision.

2. Dans ma chambre il y a un lit et

devant le lit, il y a une commode. Il y a

un livre sur la commode. Il y a aussi une

lampe, mais il n’y a pas d’ordinateur.

3. Dans ma chambre il y a des lits

superposés. Entre le lit et la porte, il y

a des étagères. Il y a des livres dans

l’étagère et un vase aussi. Sous le lit, il

y a un nounours.

A

B

C

Click the screen to check your answers.

Task 6

masculine(un/le)

feminine(une/la)

masc plural(les)

fem plural(les)

bleu bleue bleus bleues

vert verte verts vertes

joli jolie jolis jolies

rouge rouge rouges rouges

confortable confortable confortables confortables

violet violette violets violettes

blanc blanche blancs blanches

Add -e Add -s Add -es

Adjectives go AFTER the nouneg la chaise bleue

le canapé confortableEXCEPT for: grand/petit/joliwhich go BEFORE the noun

la petite chaisele grand canapé

(masc) = le canapé bleu / les canapé bleus(fem) = la chaise bleue / les chaises bleues

Look at the table to revise how adjectives change – they ‘agree’ with the noun they are describing eg if you are describing a chair (une chaise)it is feminine – choose the correct ending for the adjective. Examples below.

Adjectives and prepositions in a sentence

Describe the items and where they are in the room. Choose the correct adjective and preposition from the options.

Choose the correct option for these sentences;

1. Il y a une chaise violet/violette sous le /à côté dubureau.

2. Il y a un ordinateur blanc/blanche sur/sous la table.

3. Le grand/grande fauteuil poire est rouge.

4. La console de jeux noire/noires est devant/derrièrele fauteuil poire.

Task 7

You can use two ways of describing where something is;

La lampe est sur le bureau. = the lamp is on the desk.

Il y a une lampe sur le bureau. = there is a lamp on the desk

the garage

Check your answer to the quiz earlier….

Write a paragraph to describe one of these photos. Only use vocabulary from the lessons this week and last week. Do not use translate tools.

Use the - next slide to help you with sentence structure.- vocabulary slide at the beginning of the lesson. (the vocabulary is also repeated on the last slide.)

Success Criteria:• use adjectives (check agreements and position)• use prepositions (eg sous/sur/derrière)• use connectives (cependant/mais/et)• include opinion

Décris-moi la photoTask 7

SENTENCE STARTERS – Use more than one of theseil y a = there is/areil n’y a pas de = there isn’t/aren’tc’est – it isdans le bureau/la chambre… = in the office/bedroom…dans l’image/la photo = in the picture/photoje peux voir = I can see..aux murs… = on the walls

ADJECTIVESconfortableen désordrepropresaleconfortablebien équipéconfortablemal équipéemodernechicformidable

très = veryassez = quitevraiment = really/verytrop = too

grandpetitjoli

PREPOSITIONSsous = undersur = onen face de = oppositedevant = in front ofderrière = behind

OPINIONJ’aime le/la……..carJe n’aime pas le/la………carje suis fan de = I am a fan ofje raffole de = I am mad about..je préfère = I prefer

masculine feminine

big * grand grande

calm tranquille tranquille

clean propre propre

colourful coloré coloréecomfortable confortable confortable

dirty sale sale

fabulous formidable formidable

horrible/awful affreux affreuse

light/bright vif vive

modern moderne moderneold-fashioned démodé démodée

pretty * joli jolie

small * petit petite

smart/posh chic chic

trendy branché branchée

untidy en désordre en désordre

Feminine Nouns(une = a, la = the)

une commode – chest of drawersune chaise – a chairune télé – a tvune fenêtre – a windowune table – a tableune moquette – carpetune douche – showerune console de jeux – games consoleune chaîne hi-fi – stereoune bibliothèque - bookcase

les rideaux -curtainsdes fleurs – some flowers

Masculine Nouns (un = a, le = the)

un livre – a bookun nounours – a teddyun mur – a wallun poster – a posterun canapé – a sofaun tapis – rugun armoire – wardrobeun miroir – mirrorun fauteuil - armchairun ordi – computerun lit – bedun bureau – deskun placard – a cupboard

Adjectives

cependant = howevermais = butet = andparce que/car = becausedonc = thereforepar contre = on the other hand

Connectives

Vocabulary