Part B: I live in... THIS TOWN

NEW WORDS AND PHRASES: B1

Reminder

Où habites-tu?

Where do you live?

J’habite à ... - I live in ...

Names of TOWNS in Northern France

Béthune, Boulogne, Calais, Hesdin, Lens, Lille, Roubaix, Saint Omer, Sars-Poteries, Wimereux.

TOWNS in the rest of France see Talking Dictionary

Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Saint Malo, Toulouse.

Watch Film B1: I live in THIS TOWN

❑ Watch film B1 which shows some towns in northern France. To pinpoint where certain towns are, you will see their names written on a map of France.

We see images of Calais: ferries arriving; children playing on the beach and skatepark; “J’habite à Calais”; Calais Town Hall (see Talking Point 1) and the Dragon of Calais who walks the length of the seafront taking visitors for a ride on his back!

We then see scenes from Boulogne’s “old town”, the port and the sea life centre Nausicaá “J’habite à Boulogne”.

The final town featured in film B1 is Saint Omer, featuring the new theatre (formerly the Town Hall), the railway station, the ruins of the Abbey of Saint Bertin and the cathederal: “J’habite à Saint Omer”.

Towns in your country

❑ Echoing: Tell the pupils which town you live in, e.g. “J’habite à Plymouth”

Pupils echo the phrase.

❑ Echoing: Using a map of your country, point to a selection of different towns and cities and say, e.g. “J’habite à Liverpool”.

Pronounce such town names as you would in your country, unless the French have their own name for the place - see “cultural awareness”.

❑ Now let the puppet ask different children where they really live. The puppet asks, ”Où habites-tu?”, pupils reply “J’habite à Luton” etc. or, for a more natural response “à Luton”.

Watch Film B2:

❑ Watch film B2 which shows some more towns in northern France. We see images of Lille, (the fourth largest city in France) including the historic town centre with the Town Hall belfry: “J’habite à Lille”.

The next town is Lens which is famous for the football team “Racing Club Lens”: “J’habite à Lens”.

The town of Béthune completes the film. We see summer images of the “old town” and shops together with a scene from Béthune’s Christmas market that children will remember from Early Start French 1. “J’habite à Béthune”.

Watch Film B3:

❑ There are lots of towns featured in this section, so you may prefer to watch film B3 at a later date. This film shows the seaside town of Wimereux with children enjoying the summer sailing school: “J’habite à Wimereux”. We then see the urban setting of Roubaix, which can be

Cultural awareness

Speakers of another language sometimes change the name of a foreign town to fit the sounds they are used to, or spell it the way they link sounds to writing. English-speaking people have their own way of saying Paris. For French-speakers, Dover is Douvres; London is Londres, and Edinburgh is Édimbourg.

See “extra words and phrases 1”.

reached by tram from Lille: “J’habite à Roubaix”. We visit the market town of Hesdin: “J’habite à Hesdin” and lastly, the village of Sars-Poteries which was once famous for the manufacture of glass: “J’habite à Sars-Poteries”.

Watch Film B4: “Question & answer”

❑ Watch film B4 in which children answer the question “Où habites-tu?”, as well as: “Ça va?”, “Quel âge as-tu”, and “Comment t’appelles-tu?”.

❑ Following the example of the question & answer sequences in film B4, you ask individual children “Où habites-tu?”.

They reply “à ...(-name of their town)”. You ask “Tu habites en ville ou à la campagne?” Pupils reply, “en ville” or “à la campagne”.

❑ Play “place name chain” in groups

Pupil 1 says, “J’habite à ...” (naming their town or village), and asks the next child, ”Et toi, où habites-tu?” Pupil 2 answers, then asks pupil 3 and so on round the group.

❑ Play “place name chain” as a race

Divide the class into groups. Start the race by saying “1-2-3... partez!” The first in each group asks, ”Où habites-tu?”; the next child answers, “J’habite à Manchester”, and so on round the group. To win, a group must finish first and have used the correct French phrases!

❑ Play “stand up - sit down” game 2: This time include more places. If you say “J’habite à ... (a local town, neighbourhood, or village), pupils who live there stand up. They sit when you say “J’habite à ... (a nearby place); children who live there stand up. Now say “J’habite à la campagne”; all the village

Extra Words And Phrases 1

TOWNS in the British Isles

Londres

Édimbourg

Douvres

- London - Edinburgh - Dover

French speakers use different names for these towns.

see Talking Dictionary and country-dwellers should stand. Then say “J’habite en ville”....

NOTE: If necessary, discuss in your own language about what counts as town and countryside. Extend the game by adding familiar words which pupils already know, e.g. “J’ai deux frères”, “J’ai un hamster”...

Pupils must stand up when they hear any phrase that is true for them.

Get used to the sounds

(c) Towns in France

❑ Echoing: Display the map of northern France using the e-flashcards

Ask your French-speaking puppet “Où habitestu?” The puppet replies “J’habite à Calais”, or simply “à Calais” as children do in film B4. Pupils echo the reply. Ask them where Calais is on the map: ”Où est Calais? 1? ..2?” Children say which number they think corresponds to Calais. Click on the number to hear the name of the town and see if they are right. Repeat this with the other French towns identified in the films:

1 = Calais 2 = Wimereux 3 = Boulogne

4 = Saint-Omer 5 = Hesdin 6 = Sars-Poteries

7 = Lille 8 = Roubaix 9 = Béthune 10 = Lens

11 = Douvres (Dover)

Key Sounds

Listen and enjoy copying these typical sounds: where have you heard them before?

as in Hesdin, Saint Omer, Saint Malo

Heard before in: lapin vingt as in Lens

Heard before in: vendredi, France as in où, Boulogne, Roubaix, Édimbourg, Douvres, Toulouse

Heard before in: souris, douze as in Calais, Roubaix, Marseille

Heard before in: elle, père, mai as in Lille, Wimereux, Sars-Poteries, Paris

Heard before in: dix, il, animal as in Béthune

Heard before in: Thomas, Arthur as in Béthune, Édimbourg

Heard before in: et, zéro, janvier as in Londres

Heard before in: bonjour, onze as in Marseille, Lyon

Heard before in: famille, soleil as in Calais, Hesdin, Roubaix, Sars-Poteries, Édimbourg, Douvres

Seen before in: salut, blanc see Talking Dictionary

❑ Play “where do you live?”: Display the map of northern France on the eflashcards. Give each pupil a number 1-10; they live in that town. Click, for example, number 10 to hear the name of the town Lens. Say to the class, “Qui habite à Lens?” Pupils with number 10 stand up. You say “J’habite à Lens”; those pupils echo. Repeat several times. Then go round the class asking individuals, “Où habites-tu?”. They reply according to the number they have been given.

The e-flashcards also include examples of each of the French towns together with the phrase “J’habite à ...” which you can use to help pronunciation.

❑ Play “two of a kind”: Give each child the activity sheet map of northern France with ONE town ringed; that is their home town. Check that everyone knows the name of their town. They walk round, asking “Où habites-tu?” until they find a partner from the same town. Swap maps to play again.

Talking point 1

Finding out about the French towns in the film

All the towns featured in the films are in the northern-most region of France called NordPas de Calais. The online presentation gives your class a few interesting facts about each one that helps them make more sense of what they see in the films: successful cotton industry.

Nowadays Calais is the main port for ferries crossing the Channel from Dover. When the Channel Tunnel was built, people in Calais feared the port would have to close - but it is still busy with car-ferries.

In medieval times, Calais was ruled by England! It was a fortified English stronghold on the other side of the Channel.

The town was captured by an English army after a siege lasting for a whole year. The statue by Rodin, which stands outside the Town Hall, shows the leaders of the starving townsfolk surrendering.

The Blériot Plage seafront has recently been modernised with an enormous skate park and playground area together with the imposing Calais Dragon who marches along the seafront breathing fire and smoke!

Lens and Béthune are former coal-mining towns both featured in Early Start French 1. Lens is the home of a top division football club.

Roubaix used to be a big town of smoky textile mills. In the 1970s, most were closed in the face of cheaper imports, and the owners turned to businesses like mail-order warehouses.

Crowds gather along the route of the annual Paris-Roubaix cycle race where the world’s top cycle-racers struggle over stretches of cobbled roads (which are now specially preserved). A small country market town, Hesdin is surrounded by miles of fields and forests. The King of Spain ordered Hesdin to be built around the time of the Spanish Armada, when he ruled this part of France. You can still see his coat of arms on Hesdin Town Hall.

Wimereux is a traditional seaside resort near Boulogne. The town railway station is on the main line from Calais to Paris. Before the First World War, summer trains brought better-off British families for a seaside holiday in France. In July and August, families on holiday pay for children to spend time learning to sail in the sheltered bay.

“J’habite à Calais”. The Calais Dragon takes visitors for a ride.

Boulogne is a busy fishing port on the coast of northern France: its boats go out towards the North Sea and the Atlantic.

Boulogne’s town walls were built in the 13th Century and a second rampart was added during the 16th century. The “old town” inside the walls is visited by many tourists.

Saint Omer is a market town in marshland. We see the ruined medieval abbey and the fine Gothic cathedral. What was once the Town Hall, which overlooks the market square, has now become a theatre and the railway station has also had a makeover and been renamed “la station”!

Lille is one of the 5 biggest cities in France. It is where fast Eurostar trains stop on the way to Paris or Brussels from London through the Channel Tunnel. It is described as the “Manchester of Northern France” because it became wealthy in the 19th century as the result of the

Sars-Poteries is a village that still has some pottery workshops; its glass factories are now remembered in the local glass museum. There are reminders of the glassworks throughout the village; the glassworkers often made balls of waste glass to fix on their rooftops for decoration and good luck.

Watch Film B5: Song

❑ Watch film B2 and sing alongside the children:

“Moi, j’habite à Hesdin, Moi, j’habite à Lille; Moi, j’habite à la campagne, Moi, j’habite en ville.

Moi, j’habite à Calais, Moi, j’habite à Lens; Moi, j’habite à Saint Omer, Moi, j’habite en France...”

A child says, “J’habite en France,” followed by the final line of the song: “...Où habites-tu?”