Classroom+Objects

media type="custom" key="5939589" align="right"Why not test how much classroom vocabulary you recognise by trying this fun quiz created on the [|Mystudiyo] website.

Alternatively, the Crickweb site has a super [|word and picture labelling activity] to test your reading skills!

Or, [|put your writing skills to the test] by first listening to some short monologues naming items on a table and then filling in the missing words from the accompanying text on-screen.

If it's [|spelling practice] you need, here's another activity in which you have to name familiar classroom objects.

What about playing [|noughts and crosses] against the computer? It's an exercise that's sure to strengthen your listening and reading skills!

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This slideshare presentation of written work produced by Y3 pupils uses much of the vocabulary for classroom objects that you will have encountered in the activities above.



You may have noticed that pupils as young as just 7 or 8 years old are able to write quite long sentences to describe their own pencil case contents. The children developed this skill over a number of weeks by first learning the nouns for familiar classroom objects, then learning the two key French phrases 'J'ai...'  for 'I've got...' and  'Je n'ai pas de...' for 'I haven't got any...'  They were also introduced to the connective <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">'mais' <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> meaning <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">'but' <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">which allowed them to join two short statements together. Finally they learnt about the unusual word order of the French language, which places adjectives of colour __AFTER__ the noun rather than before like in English. After lots of practice, pupils were able to formulate really quite complex sentences orally as well as in their writing. Their ability to read the French words, re-ordering lengthy, 'human sentences' like in this photograph, really helped their linguistic development too.

media type="custom" key="5417039" width="140" height="140" align="right"media type="custom" key="5417043" width="140" height="140" align="right"<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">So, in French there are two different words for 'a' and two different words for 'the' depending on the gender of the noun. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Masculine nouns are preceded by 'un' or 'le' whilst feminine nouns are preceded by either 'une' or 'la'. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">These two [|wordle] posters will help you to remember the gender of some key items of vocabulary - just click on each thumbnail to enlarge the image. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Why not design your own versions at home?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Finally, why not take a look at this wonderful video, created by teachers in Gateshead using 'stop-motion animation' techniques ... <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">media type="custom" key="5674907" <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Be sure to sing along - after all, you do know the words too!