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    Teacher's Notes For "Au Zoo de Vincennes": M'appelle

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    The video and accompanying teacher's notes are aimed at young French language learners to support pronunciation and vocabulary learning about zoo animals through a story. The notes provide background on topics, vocabulary, and suggested activities to reinforce learning about animal names, descriptions, and an interactive game to identify a missing animal from clues. The goal is for students to learn zoo animal vocabulary in French and be able to name, describe, and identify different animals.

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    Teacher's Notes For "Au Zoo de Vincennes": M'appelle

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    Teacher’s notes for “Au Zoo de Vincennes”

    These videos are aimed to support and stimulate young language learners
    by exemplifying pronunciation in French allowing learners to match the
    written and spoken word. They also aim to support practitioners by
    offering a platform that can lead to wider learning opportunities. The
    teacher’s notes give a possible way of exploiting the video resource but
    are in no way prescriptive.

    Who is this video for ?


    This video is aimed at learners in nursery and lower primary school. The topics
    are familiar and build on the kind of stories learners might encounter in the
    learning of their mother tongue. The activities reinforce the key learning points
    from the video and the vocabulary list allows practitioners to prepare any prior
    learning needed to assist understanding and enjoyment.

    Building on prior learning:


    Children should be familiar with basic greetings and the vocabulary for close
    family members (maman /papa ) and they should be able to understand familiar
    language for giving and asking for personal information e.g. Bonjour! Je
    m’appelle
    etc.
    Children should also be familiar with numbers 1 to 10 both in oral and aural
    form in French and should know some colours.

    Topic area:
    This video introduces learners to zoo animals and descriptions using colour
    and animal body parts.
    By the end of this video learners should be able to:
    • read and understand the key points from the story.
    • respond verbally and non-verbally to simple questions about the story
    • make connections between the vocabulary they know for zoo animals
    and those words in French.
    • label different animals and body parts in French.
    Additionally, learners should have learned about and researched other zoo
    animals.

    Key vocabulary
    un crocodile a crocodile
    un flamand rose a pink flamingo
    un hippopotame a hippopotamus
    un kangourou a kangaroo
    un tigre a tiger
    un zèbre a zebra
    une girafe a giraffe
    A disparu has disappeared
    Je cherche I’m looking for..
    Tu as vu? Have you seen?
    C’est quel animal? Which animal is it?
    Il est comment? What does it look like
    Il a … It has…
    Les cornes horns
    Le cou neck
    Les pattes paws
    Les plumes feathers
    La queue tail
    Les rayures stripes
    Les taches patches
    Les écailles scales
    Une poche a pouch (or pocket)
    Zut Oh dear
    La tête head
    Gris grey
    Marron brown
    Rose pink
    Jaune yellow

    Au Zoo de Vincennes
    1. Introduce the topic by talking about zoos and the kinds of
    animals they might find there.
    2. Play the video, identifying the characters – Angus, sa
    maman, son papa.
    3. “Un animal a disparu !” Working with the children, use
    the cognate to see if they can work it out
    4. Introduce the new character “Dédé le detective” - ” Bonjour Dédé ”
    5. Depending on learners’ stage and ability, listen again to the vocabulary
    and encourage them to repeat what they hear. Can they work out
    what “je cherche” “tu as vu “ etc means ? This could be used in other
    contexts, such as “Tu as vu mon crayon?” “Je cherche un crayon” as a
    “Go fetch” game around the class, for example.
    6. As they move on to identifying the animal from the outline, reinforce
    “les pattes”, “la queue” “la tête.” Learners may already know some of
    these words from previous activities.
    7. Use mime or gesture to make clear unknown vocabulary such as un
    grand cou/ il a des plumes/ 4 quatre grandes pattes/ des rayures/ des
    taches marron et jaunes/ une poche/deux petites cornes
    8. Talk about the pink flamingo, what kind of animal it is/ why it is pink/
    where it lives etc.
    9. By the end of the story, the children should be able to guess the
    animal that is missing.
    As appropriate, re-visit the video script to repeat and reinforce new and known
    vocabulary. The video uses a variety of forms of familiar phrases e.g.
    Comment tu t’appelles? Tu t’appelles comment?

    Follow up e-activities.- These activities are designed to be used on an


    interactive whiteboard, where the “ stylo magique” can draw the links on the
    screen. A correct version of each activity can be accessed by clicking on the
    “Réponse “ button.

    Each video has five follow up activities based on the story.


    Activity 1 – Drag and drop. Easy identification of each animal in the story.
    Activity 2- Identify the animal from a part of the body. “Qu’est-ce que c’est?”
    Activity 3- “C’est de quelle couleur?” Children draw an arrow from the
    colour to the correct animal (There may be more than one arrow for
    each.)
    Activity 4- “Ecoutez!” Learners click on the animal, listen to the sound file and
    drag and drop the correct number.
    Activity 5- “Lisez!” They read the zoo inventory and fill in the missing numbers
    for each animal on the list. This includes 3 new animals from recognisable
    cognates.
    Evidence of learning could be…
    Say: children can repeat the key items of vocabulary from the
    video, through mime or flashcard activities. Hide the card- guess
    the animal. Say the phrase from a stimulus “Je cherche..?” Use
    rhymes to reinforce pronunciation.
    Write: with support, they can copy-write key vocabulary form the video in a
    relevant context i.e. “C’est quel animal?” Use an outline drawing for learners
    to colour and label. Create an outline of the animal using a word snake.
    Extend to using the colours in French.
    Make: design a poster for the Zoo de Vincennes or create a wall display for
    Angus or Dédé le detective.
    Do: research the real “Zoo de Vincennes” from their website. Look at
    Edinburgh Zoo and make links to the video learning. The class could look up
    the words for other zoo animals to label a wall display or similar.

    Further learning opportunities


    • Research other animals with the same characteristics- a
    pouch/horns/stripes/scales and encourage learners to label or
    write a short sentence
    • Do a survey - “un sondage “ - on pets or favourite zoo animals.
    Children could use opinion phrases “Je préfère…” or could use
    non-verbal ways such as showing thumbs or choosing their
    favourite flashcard
    • Reinforce pets and personal information for an animal using “une
    fiche d’identité” with name, description and home country so
    that they see this familiar vocabulary in another context.
    Useful links:
    Zoo de Vincennes

    https://www.parczoologiquedeparis.fr/fr

    Edinburgh Zoo

    http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/

    Giant Panda resource

    http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/pandas/index.asp

    Songs and rhymes in French about animals

    http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/mfl/mfl.htm

    http://www.mondedespetits.fr

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