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Early Start French Pack 2
7. Quel temps fait-il?
What’s the weather like?
In this section pupils learn to talk about
the weather. As part of your class routine,
children can do their daily local weather
report in French.
Using the internet, they can also observe
the changing weather in France from day
to day - perhaps comparing with the climate
patterns in your own country.
This topic is an opportunity to build on
children’s knowledge about France (and
possibly other French-speaking countries)
from chapters 2.1 and 2.2; and links with
the theme of “kite-flying” from chapter 2.5.
VIDEO
8 phrases to describe weather are introduced:
Good weather (sunny, on the beach):
Animation: Il fait beau
Children saying it’s nice: “il fait beau”.
Bad weather:
Animation: Il fait mauvais
Children say it’s nasty weather: “il fait mauvais”.
Hot weather:
Animation: Il fait chaud
Children saying that it is hot: “il fait chaud”.
Cold weather:
Animation: Il fait froid
Children saying that it is cold: “il fait froid”.
Wet weather:
Animation: Il pleut
Children saying that it is raining: “il pleut”.
Sunny weather:
Animation: Il y a du soleil
Children saying it is sunny: “il y a du soleil”.
Windy weather:
Animation: Il y a du vent
Children saying that it is windy: “il y a du vent”.
Snowy weather:
Animation: Il neige
Children saying that it is snowing: “il neige”.
NEW WORDS AND PHRASES
Quel temps fait-il?
What’s the weather like?
il fait beau
il fait mauvais
il fait chaud
il fait froid
il pleut
il neige
il y a du soleil *
il y a du vent *
-
it’s nice
it’s nasty
it’s hot/warm
it’s cold
it’s raining
it’s snowing
it’s sunny
it’s windy
* NOTE: in France, you will commonly hear
“il y a ...” used in these two phrases, rather than
“il fait ...”, which you may see in textbooks.
CD Track 19
Scene from video section 7: “il fait froid”.
Question & answer: We hear the question
Quel temps fait-il? and the replies ...
...children at the seaside: “il fait beau”
... in the rain: “il fait mauvais”
... at Dennlys Parc amusements: “il fait chaud”
Scene from video section 7: animation -“Il fait beau”.
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... wrapped up for winter shopping:“il fait froid”
... holding an umbrella in the rain: “il pleut”
... playing in the snow: “il neige”
... wearing sunglasses: “il y a du soleil”
... flying kites: “il y a du vent”.
We see children and adults flying amazing
stunt kites - even a huge octopus! -at the annual
Kite Festival on the beach at Berck-sur-Mer:
“Quel temps fait-il? - Il y a du vent”.
KEY SOUNDS
Listen and enjoy copying these
typical sounds: where have you
heard them before?
“ ” as in temps vent
Heard before in:
France trente
“ ” as in chaud
Heard before in:
chat gauche
CD Track 19
2. Watch the video
❑ Watch video section 7: “Quel temps fait-il?”
to introduce the new words.
3. Get used to the sounds
❑ Echoing: Make flashcards from the weather
pictures on the activity sheets -or display on
the OHP/whiteboard.
Show each picture and say what kind of weather
is represented, e.g. “il fait froid”. Pupils echo
the phrase. Finally, look out of the window
and say what the weather is actually like today,
e.g. “il y a du vent.” Pupils echo the phrase.
Scene from video section 7: “Il y a du vent” (Kite Festival)
Weather song: each line gives the weather at a
place in France - see later for words and music:
A Calais, il fait mauvais;
à Wimereux, il fait beau;
à Saint Omer, il y a du vent;
à Boulogne il fait chaud.
A Paris, il fait mauvais;
à Saint-Malo, il fait beau;
à Lyon, il y a du vent;
à Marseille il fait chaud.
4. Respond with understanding
❑ Make multiple copies of the weather pictures
on the activity sheets and give ONE picture to
each pupil. When you call out, e.g. “il y a du
soleil”, the pupils with the “it’s sunny” card
hold up it for everyone to see.
Some extra visual clues may help pupils at this
early stage, e.g. shiver as you say “il fait froid”
and fan yourself as you say “il fait chaud”.
Planning your lessons
Before watching the video, talk about the
patterns of weather in France compared
with where you live.
Children will need plenty of activities to get
used to the different structures introduced
in the video.
❑ To make this into a game, divide the class
into two teams. Each team has an identical set
of weather pictures (one for each child).
When you call out the weather, e.g. “il neige”,
the pupils holding the snow picture try to be
first to jump up and echo “il neige”.
Activities
1. Warm up
You could start the lesson with a large map of
France, and talk about what children think the
weather might be like in different parts of
France.
Which parts will be warmest in summer?
(children may know something about the South
of France). What would it be like in the Alps or
other mountains in winter? See “talking point”.
For the next activities, collect a
large box of dressing-up “props”
linked with weather, e.g.
sunglasses, beach hat, fan, woolly
hat, gloves, scarf, umbrella, rain
hat, wellington boots, kite ...
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■ You say what the weather is, e.g. “il fait
froid”. Pupils take it in turns to go to the box and
choose any items that represent “it’s cold”.
When a child has put on, for example, the
woolly hat and gloves, s/he says: “il fait froid”.
❑ Pupils can use their puppets to have
conversations about the weather.
6. Watch the video again
❑ Show video section 7: “Quel temps fait-il?”
again for reinforcement.
■ You ask, “Quel temps fait-il? ”
Pupils take turns to go to the box and select one
or more items. The rest of the class then has to
guess what weather they are trying to show.
7. Look again at sounds
❑ Now that the new words and sounds are
familiar, play either “listen to the sounds” or
“find the sound” (see chapters 2.2 and 2.3).
Introducing the written word
When pupils are familiar with hearing and
saying the new words, you could show the
final sequence of video section 7, which repeats
the key phrases with text on-screen.
❑ Play “word-picture match 1 and 2”
(described in Chapter 2.2: “En ville”).
❑ Play “word snake”
Display on the board, OHP or whiteboard, a
sentence with the spaces and punctuation
removed, e.g. “aujourdhuiilneige”.
Ask the class to help you put them back, then
you say the sentence: “aujourd’hui il neige”.
When children have got the idea, give them
other “word snakes” to do in pairs.
■ Prepare two boxes, each containing the same
set of props to do with weather: e.g. an umbrella,
sunglasses, gloves.... (These will also be useful
for Ch.2.15: “Qu’est-ce que tu portes?”)
Next to each box, arrange sets of weather
pictures (use the flashcards, or cut out pictures
from magazines); place them face up on tables.
Divide the class into two teams. When you call
out, for example, “il y a du soleil”, a pupil from
each team runs to the box. S/he selects an
appropriate item, e.g. a pair of sunglasses,
picks up the picture representing “il y a du
soleil” from the table and brings it to you.
By using pictures as well as “props”, you can
tell whether pupils understand the phrases.
Some items in the dressing up boxes may be
appropriate for more than one kind of weather.
Spot the SILENT letters
Point to each “t” as you say the words; pupils
gesture if “t” is heard or silent (see ch.2.1) e.g.
“Il fait (NO) beau”; “Il y a du vent (NO)”; “Quel
t(YES) emps fait(YES)-il”;“Quel heure est(YES)-il”;
“Il est(NO) minuit (NO)”... NOTE: look out for phrases
which would be awkward to say with a normally silent “t”.
❑ Make multiple copies of the weather pictures
from the activity sheet. Give a picture to each
child in the class. Move around the room
asking each pupil, “Quel temps fait-il?”. Pupils
respond according to the picture they hold.
5. Working in pairs
❑ Pupils can use multiple copies of the pictures
on the activity sheet to play “snap”.
Scene from video section 7: “il neige”.
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CROSS-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Town Guide project
❑ Daily routines: “What’s the weather?”
Ask pupils “Quel temps fait-il?” each morning
as part of your routine of greetings, taking the
register, asking the date, etc.
Pupils can find out about weather patterns in
your area, and compare with the climate where
possible French visitors come from (see
www.earlystart.co.uk for internet links).
■ If visitors are coming from the South of France,
what would they think of your weather?
■ Where would pupils suggest French visitors
might go in bad weather?
❑ Geography/science: If pupils take weather
readings outside on a daily basis, they can
announce them in French, eg “30 - aujourd’hui
il fait chaud” (or “30 degrés ...”). They could
write it on the class weather board.
❑ Geography: TV weather presenters
Pupils will be familiar with the way weather
forecasters use symbols to show what the
weather is like in different parts of the country.
Prepare a large map of France (you could
enlarge the map from ch.2.1). Label towns on
the map that are relevant to your pupils. Make
sets of weather symbols from the activity sheet,
laminate them to withstand regular use, and
find a way to stick them to the map (e.g. velcro).
❑ Geography/Technology - a weather dial:
Pupils can design and make a weather dial for
the class weather board (and a game).
rain
cloudy
sunny
They cut a large circle from card, and divide it
into segments like slices of a cake - illustrating
each segment with different weather symbols.
Fix a “pointer” in the centre to turn like a clock
hand, and set it to indicate today’s weather.
The dial can also be used for a game, played in
pairs. One pupil spins the pointer and asks
the other, “Quel temps fait-il?”
snow
temperature
windy
stormy
Pupils can take it in turns to be TV weather
presenters. As they attach symbols to different
towns, they say “à Lille il y a du soleil”, “à Calais
il pleut” etc. If you need to prompt anyone, you
can ask, “Quel temps fait-il à Paris?”
In the “TV presenter” role, pupils can greet the
viewers and say goodbye in French.
❑ Daily routine/ICT/Geography:
“Quel temps fait-il en France?”
Pupils can use the internet to research what the
weather is like in France - possibly focusing on
a town or area you have links with.
See www.earlystart.co.uk for a link to the
official French weather web site.
❑ Music: singing about the weather:
Play pupils the song, “Quel temps fait-il?” again
- from the video or the Audio CD for teachers.
Music and words are printed later this chapter.
Ask children to clap on each syllable as they
SAY the words. Can they pick out the rhymes?
A / Ca-/lais / il / fait / mau-/vais;
à / Wim-/ (e)reux / il / fait / beau;
à / Saint-/ O-/mer / il / y a / du / vent;
à Bou- /logne / il / fait / chaud.
They could write a weather song to a familiar
tune (e.g.“Frère Jaques”). Discuss possible
rhymes, and how syllables fit with the tune.
Add to your “en France” display
Ask your partner school to send photographs
and pictures which show their town and
surrounding areas at different times of year.
“Imaginary Town” project
Pupils can talk about what they think the
weather would be in their imaginary town.
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❑ Drama: Play “the miming game”
Pupils work in pairs. Give each pair a picture
showing a kind of weather. They have 5 minutes
to prepare a mime to represent this weather.
They can use speech only if it is in French (e.g.
greetings, asking someone how they are, etc.)
but NOT, of course, to say what the weather is!
Each pair performs their mime to the rest of the
class, who guess what the weather is.
Talking point 1
France’s diverse climate
Because France is so big - twice the size of
Britain - the weather varies quite a lot from one
part of the country to another. Perhaps that is
why 9 out of 10 French people take holidays in
their own country: they can have a change
without leaving France!
There are three zones with different climate
patterns:Atlantic & Channel coastal climate
Around these coasts, the sea keeps the climate
rainy, but quite mild. Summers are not so hot
as inland; winters not so cold.
The video shows the weather at different times
of year in the Nord-Pas de Calais region. Westerly
winds blow up the Channel, making the north
one of the wetter parts of the country, and also
quite windy.
= Mountains
= Inland “Continental” climate
= Atlantic & Channel coastal
climate
= “Mediterranean” climate
- South of France
MAP: The different Climate Zones in France
are now being built on suitable coastal sites to
generate “green” electricity without polluting
the environment or burning fossil fuels.
Inland “Continental” climate
Inland away from the coast, the climate has
more extremes - typical of the Continent:
summers are hotter than on the coast, but
winters are much colder.
In July-August, many families from inland
towns spend a whole month on holiday by the
coast - leaving inland towns half empty, with
many shops and restaurants shut.
50% of French holiday-makers go the seaside.
At the start and end of the holidays, there are
massive 24-hour jams on the motorways.
Mountains
In the mountainous regions (the Alps and the
Pyrenees) there is lots of snow in the winter,
with temperatures well below freezing.
Mont Blanc in the French Alps is the highest
mountain peak in Europe (4,807m).
Skiing is no.5 in French men’s favourite sports.
20% of French holidays are in the mountains.
Wimd-power in Boulogne on the Channel coast.
Further south on the Atlantic coast towards
Biarritz, it is warmer, but still quite fresh. Moist
winds from the Atlantic bring plenty of rain.
Electricity from wind
France uses little wind-power, because it has so
many nuclear power stations. “Wind farms”
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Mediterranean climate: South of France
Down towards the Mediterranean, the South
has the warmest climate, with hot summers
when the forests get so dry there is a danger of
forest fires. Winters are mild - it rarely snows.
The island of Corsica (Corse) is further south
and even warmer, except up in the mountains.
The Mistral
In the South of France, a cold wind, “le Mistral”,
sometimes blows down to the coast at up to 100
km/hour. Local people get bad-tempered
because the non-stop wind is unpleasant.
It blows tiles off roofs, so people weigh them
down with stones. They joke with tourists that
the wind blows stones up onto their houses!
EXTRA WORDS AND PHRASES
il fait gris - it’s cloudy
(literally, “it’s grey”)
le temps est orageux
- it’s stormy
il y a du tonnerre et des éclairs
there’s thunder and lightning
il y a du brouillard
it’s foggy
Hear how these phrases are pronounced
on the audio CD for teachers.
CD Track 19
Talking point 2
International Kite Festival
Kites have been a popular pastime in China
and Asia for centuries, where their sport was
kite-fighting: they tied knives to a kite, and
tried to manoeuvre it to cut the string of an
opponent’s kite, so it flew away helplessly!
In recent years, kite enthusiasts from Asia and
all over the world have been invited to an
annual festival held on the windy beaches of
Berck-sur-Mer in Nord-Pas de Calais.
You see in the video large and elaborate kites and skilled kite-flyers who control multiple
kites in formation, like a ballet in the sky!
Children from the Kite School at Berck-sur-Mer
try out kites of a similar design to the activity sheet.
Berck-sur-Mer’s Kite School features in Ch.2.5;
Ch.2.8 has an activity sheet for making your
own simple kite. See www.earlystart.co.uk.
SONG: The Weather song - “Quel temps fait-il?”
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mau - vais; à Saint
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Ma-lo
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Bou-logne il
Mar-seille il
Bb
fait beau;
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fait beau;
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pleut en - core; à
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fait chaud.
fait chaud.
CD Tracks: 5-song 6-karaoke
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ya
du vent; à
Quel temps fait-il?
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