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This is a lesson that could work well with students of Y9 or for new students of GCSE French, also could be used with some groups of Y8 if it is scaffolded properly. The lesson focuses on a cultural approach to festivals and include the following festivals with videos to expand on knowledge:

• Fête du Citron
• La Fête de la Musique
• Fête Nationale
• Le Festival de Cannes
• La Tour de France

Skills that could be practised with this lesson: Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking, Dictation and Translation in addition to listening and reading with French subtitles to each of the videos (apart from the Fête du Citron - it has no audio, it is simply video and some background music.)

Breakdown of the lesson:

Match up activity as a starter with the festival and images.
Objectives to translate and introduce the topic of festivals.
Additional cultural task to get students to watch videos and annotate information in English or French (activate subtitles) (see footnote on slide.)
Sentence builder for students to complete and use later with miniwhiteboard or any other writing tasks.
Listening task to recycle later for a reading task (audio files included.)
Gapfill task based on Festival de Cannes + Translation task.
Trapdoor activity to practice speaking and listening.
Writing task that can be recycled as a translation task or simply as a warm up to introduce an independent writing task (you will need dice for this.)
Handout, Presentation and Audios attached.