21 Fun Songs to Teach French Phonics – Book and USB stick

Description

21 Fun Songs to Teach French Phonics contains 21 purposefully written songs, each with a different French phonic focus, guaranteed to embed both French phonics and common vocabulary and phrases into your French curriculum. Pupils will love singing along with the audio tracks and dancing to the videos and will develop accurate French pronunciation at the same time.

Each of the songs in this book is based on a different phoneme from the French language. This allows you to provide a specific phonic focus for your lesson. However, the lyrics have also been written with the primary MFL curriculum in mind, and so you will find a wealth of age-appropriate, frequently used vocabulary and phrases.

This will allow you to use the songs to reinforce different topics and units of work, as well as to focus on French phonics. The songs can be used throughout key stages 1 and 2, and many would be appropriate for revision in Key Stage 3.

Each song has a lyrics page, which doubles up as a colouring sheet, a worksheet and two audio tracks: one with vocals and one instrumental. To make teaching the songs even easier, there are videos for each of the songs to get your pupils up on their feet, singing and dancing to the tunes. The wall chart and frieze make reinforcing phonic sounds on a regular basis easy. The teaching notes offer some additional ideas on how to exploit the songs and possible extension work in the classroom and beyond.

We are confident that you and your pupils will enjoy singing, dancing and moving to these catchy French songs. We hope that you will also see the benefits in their oral, writing, listening and reading skills and, above all, in their confidence and motivation to communicate in French.

Why not try some of the songs with your pupils?

Download the lyrics and worksheets from the TRY BEFORE YOU BUY section of this page.

Follow the links below to see the related videos. Have fun singing along and joining in with the actions.

Le petit canard Coin-coin

Une glace à la vanille

Want to check out the other songs? Watch these snippets and try not to hum the songs all day!

François le serpent

Gaston le gorille

Gigi et Georges

Chloé et Barnabé

Mon petit loup

Lulu la tortue

Mon ami Julien

Le chat en chocolat

Du lundi au dimanche

Le rap du hérrison

Petit enfant

Il y a quelqu’un ?

Il y a une petite bête

Qu’est-ce que … ?

Le rock ‘n’ roll du cochon

Trois oiseaux

Une araignée dans ma baignoire

Mon cachalot

Papy, raconte-moi une histoire

Let’s face the music and dance! Watch this video of Joe Dale hosting a webinar with Catherine, one of the authors, about how to bring the primary MFL curriculum to life using songs and movement. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfbjg9wuzLM&t=1s

Look inside the book.