Clothing

media type="custom" key="5942421" align="right" Here is a selection of Youtube videos which you are sure to find both useful and entertaining.

First there is a video which introduces key items of vocabulary - be sure to listen to each word carefully and then repeat it in order to practise your pronunciation.

Next there's a catchy song from the Babelzone website about jungle animals doing their laundry in the river!

Finally there's a lovely story about a cute little donkey who wants to show his independence by getting dressed on his own...

media type="custom" key="6474357" align="left" Just exactly what do you pack in your holiday case?

Well, here's a comical, animated video also from Youtube featuring a character called Dorothée, who crams all kinds of objects into her suitcase!

You'll no doubt hear some familiar vocabulary for numbers and colours, but be sure to listen out for any clothing words in particular.

media type="custom" key="5947375" align="right"

Now, why not browse the pages of this innovative clothing booklet produced by Y5 pupils in the summer term of 2005, which, courtesy of its split-page format, shows some of the most bizarre outfit combinations ever to be seen!

 [|This wonderful Storybird], created by language teacher Dominic McGladdery, uses clothing vocabulary, colour adjectives and weather phrases.

Read along and see how much language you can understand.

 On-line exercises

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Here's a simple [|listening and reading activity] that will test whether you can match a series of French clothing nouns to the words you hear. Just click on the little yellow loudspeaker symbols and then connect the jigsaw pieces.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">This second activity from the [|Sunderland Estrellas] is designed to test listening skills too, but this time there's no reading involved. It's a [|traditional game of 'pairs'] so it's also good for developing memory capacity.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">If you want to practise and perfect your own pronunciation of clothing vocabulary (and maybe even learn some new words), then why not try out these exercises on the wonderful [|Lexiquefle website]. You can also practise clothing prices and listen to a mini-dialogue between a shop-keeper and a customer. The activities will also help you to remember the rules about how to make a colour adjective 'agree' with the noun it describes, as the chart below illustrates...

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Did you realise that France is home to a host of famous fashion designers and that Paris is widely considered to be the fashion capital of Europe, if not the whole world? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Indeed, French fashion sets the global trends with iconic brands such as [|Christian Dior,] [|Hermes,] [|Jean-Paul Gaultier,] [|Louis Vuitton,] [|Yves Saint Laurent] and, of course, [|Coco Chanel.]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">You are sure to be familiar with this television advert for Chanel No5 perfume starring Nicole Kidman... media type="custom" key="5947811" <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">The Euroclub schools website has [|more information about Coco Chanel's life.]