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| Title | Games and Songs for Young Learners of French |
| Body | Here are some song and game suggestions which you may find useful for teaching French to children. ---- Start with a song and pull the vocabulary out of it for games. Music is extremely effective for this age but it has to incorporate movement. Some good traditional songs are "Pomme de Reinette" (fruit/silly song), "123 je m'en vais au bois" (fruit again + counting to 12), "promenons nous dans les bois" (clothing + a wolf), "savez-vous planter les choux" (parts of the body), Jean Petit qui Danse (parts of the body) and "Tête Epaules Genoux Pieds" (parts of body). Each time you sing this last one, ask what you should skip, and everyone has to be quiet while you touch it -- continue until you do the whole song silently. Also try some music from Matt Maxwell (Comment Ca Va) , or Charlotte Diamond (especially Je Suis Une Pizza, La Belle Pieuvre), or Yadeeda.com. Songs about animals are fun, then you can use the animals in little made up stories or play charades with them. Do you know "y avait des gros crocodiles?" Or "les petits poissons" Charlotte Diamond has a cute one called "La belle Pieuvre" For clothing they love "Promenons-Nous dans les bois" about the wolf who is putting on the clothes. Margaret Kohler, M.J. Re: teaching French to 7-8 year olds. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (23 Apr. 2006). |
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| Inputdate | 2006-07-06 19:40:00 |
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| Publishdate | 2006-07-10 00:00:00 |
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