Year 7 – French Enrichment – La Vie Scolaire au Collège (Poudlard)
Core task: Complete the tasks to create the resources for a presentation about school life.
- to create a timetable for Harry Potter or yourself in French.
- to describe Harry Potter’s (or another Hogwarts character’s) or your school day using the translation of Monday’s timetable as a model.
- to imagine you are Harry Potter or another main character and give his/her opinion of some of the school subjects with reasons. If you don’t know anything about Harry Potter, then you can do it for your self – give your opinions.
- to understand a description of life at school.
- to give a description of one of a teacher at Hogwarts or Parkfields - to describe the school uniform: paragraph or labelled picture - to create a list of what equipment is required at school
Extension: - to create a ‘Map’ of the places in school, in French: places in school - to write a teacher’s speech of the rules for the term
Core Vocabulary: - days of the week - opinion phrases - school subjects - times
- places in school - clothes
- physical and character description - school equipment
- rules
Hints and Helps: - use the vocabulary sheets, your planner and your exercise books to help you with the French.
- do not use a translator, it won’t help you practise the vocabulary,
grammar and key phrases we are learning in lessons – the purpose of this work is to reinforce, support and extend the learning you are doing in your lessons.
- do a task or two each week; try and match the task from the enrichment with the tasks we are doing in lessons
Key Skills:
Communication – listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Please hand in to your Form Teacher on Thursday 24
thMarch 2022
Name : ___________________________________________________________
5 4 3 2 1 cours/jours lundi mardi mercredi jeudi vendredi
Name : __________________________________________________________
Translate this description of a school day at Hogwarts to help you write
Le lundi, j’ai 5 cours : l’anglais, les potions, les langues magiques, le quidditch et l’histoire de la magie. À huit heures quarante-cinq (8 :45), c’est l’anglais, à neuf heures quarante-cinq (9 :45), c’est les potions avec Monsieur Rogue, puis c’est la recréation. La leçon trois, j’ai langues magiques avec Madame Cooper et la leçon quatre, j’ai quidditch avec Madame Bibine. Le déjeuner dure une heure. L’après-midi, de 2h 15 à 3h 15, j’ai histoire de la magie . ____________________________________________________________________
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Using the reading material above, write a description of another day. This could be based on the timetable you have created in Activity 1.
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Imagine you are Harry Potter and give his opinions with reasons. If you don’t know anything about Harry Potter, then you can do it for yourself.
1. J’adore ___________________________ car _________________________
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2. J’aime ____________________________ car _________________________
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3. Ça m’est égal __________________________ car ______________________
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4. Je n’aime pas ___________________________ car _____________________
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5. Je déteste _____________________________ car _____________________
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Name: ________________________________________________________________
L’école de tes rêves – à Poudlard!
(The School of your Dreams – at Hogwarts !)
L’école de mes rêves se trouve dans un vieux château à la campagne. C’est un grand bâtiment avec beaucoup de salles de classes : il y a 250 pièces ! Certaines classes sont cachées derrière des portes secrètes dont on a perdu les clés.
Les élèves vivent dans un internat : il y a un bâtiment pour les filles et un bâtiment pour les garçons.
J’aime mon école parce qu’elle est jolie et spacieuse.
Il y a cours lundi, mardi, mercredi matin, jeudi, vendredi et samedi matin.
Dans mon école, on étudie les sorts et les enchantements, les potions, la divination, la défense contre les forces du mal, le quidditch, l’astronomie, la botanique, l’histoire de la magie, la métamorphose, le vol sur balai, l’arithmancie, et le soins de créatures magiques, mais on étudie aussi les langues! Je préfère l’astronomie parce que c’est très original et amusant.
Les cours commencent à 9 heures et finissent à 13 heures. Il y a 4 leçons par jour et il n’y a pas de devoirs à faire ! C’est super !
Le samedi après-midi, on peut faire beaucoup d’activités comme le tennis, la danse, le théâtre, le quidditch ou le vol en balai.
Le dimanche, on peut rester dormir tard puis après l’église, on va pique-niquer dans un immense parc.
J’adore mon école car les profs sont sympas et compréhensifs. J’ai plein d’amis et on s’amuse bien.
Go through and highlight the words you know (cognates and things you know)
Dans le texte, trouve les mots en français : (In the text, find the French words)
L’exemple : is located / situated : se trouve
Hidden behind secret doors : ____________________________________
We have lost the keys : _________________________________________
A boarding school: ____________________________________________
Spacious / huge: _____________________________________________
We can do a lot of activities:_____________________________________
Réponds aux questions : (Answer the questions)
a) How many rooms are there in the school?
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b) What happened to the keys of some of the rooms?
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c) Where do students live?
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d) Which subjects are taught in school?
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e) Why does the writer like astronomy?
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f) What happens on Sundays?
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g) What are the writer’s opinions of their school?
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Les Matières et Les Professeurs
l’astronomie – Mme Sinistra
la botanique – Professeur Chaurave
la défense contre les forces du mal – Professeur Quirrell
l’histoire de la magie – Professeur Binns
la métamorphose – Professeur McGonagall
les potions – Professeur Rogue
le vol sur balai et le quidditch– Mme Bibine
l’arithmancie – Professeur Vector
la divination – Professeur Trelawney
les soins aux créatures magiques – Professeur Brûlopot
Name : __________________________________________________________
Décris un professeur
Choose a teacher from Hogwarts or Parkfields and describe them: physical
appearance, character and Harry Potter’s opinion of the teacher. Use Year 6 work to help you.
Décris l’uniforme scolaire
Get or draw a picture of girls’ / boys’ uniforms and then label in French (nouns and adjectives). This could be to do with Hogwarts or Parkfields.
Name : __________________________________________________________
Crée une liste d’affaires (Create a list of equipment you have to have at Hogwarts or
Parkfields. If you are doing Hogwarts, think about the letter Harry received telling him what he needed before he started. Use normal equipment from Year 5 learning as well.)
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