KS2 · French · Year 3
Christmas: practice with key sounds
Me and others: singular 'être' and regular adjectives
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can use my phonics knowledge to join in with a Christmas song.
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Christmas: practice with key sounds: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
Original teaching resources
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can use my phonics knowledge to join in with a Christmas song.
Key learning points
- Silent final consonants, vowels and combinations [an/en] and [eu] are very common French sounds.
- Practising key sounds by joining in with songs and rhymes helps embed the knowledge.
Words to know
- [a], [e], [i], [o], [u]
- French vowel sounds
- [an/en]
- pronounced as in 'enfant'
- [eu]
- pronounced as in 'jeudi
- SFC (Silent Final Consonat)
- silent letter (d, s, t, x) at the end of a word
- être
- French verb meaning 'to be, being'
Common mistakes
Consonants at the end of words are pronounced in French.
Often, consonants are silent at the end of words in French, such as the letters d, s, t and x. These are called SFCs (silent final consonants).
For parents, carers and teachers
- You may wish to research more French Christmas traditions with your class and to do a compare and contrast activity which compares a French and a UK Christmas.