Part C: Faisons les courses

Planning your lessons

Part C contrasts people shopping in the big city’s modern supermarket, with shopping in the traditional ‘souks’ (markets).

Activities

Warm up

Before showing film C1 , talk about what children know about how their households shop: - from local shops? - or a big supermarket? Do they buy ingredients for cooking, or readymade meals in packets?

Watch film C1: Rabat supermarket

❑ Watch film C1, which shows the Charyate family arriving to shop in the giant Marjane surpermarket in Rabat (Marjane is a big chain of supermarkets in Morocco). They walk from the huge car park, just by an urban motorway, into the store,where all the product labels and signs are in both French and Arabic.

C1: NEW WORDS

C1: Shopping in Morocco - modern faisons les courses let’s go shopping des céréales de la farine du sucre une cuisinière un ordinateur (portable) une télévision le supermarché à la caisse

Qu’est-ce qu’on achète? What shall we buy?

- some cereals

- some flour

- some sugar

- cooker

- (laptop) computer

- TV set

- supermarket

- at the checkout

Get used to the sounds ‘Shopping’

❑ Echoing: Show the e-flashcards marked ‘C1’ which show the items on sale in the large Marjane supermarket; start with sound and text ON.

Film C1: In Rabat the family buy sugar in the supermarket. They buy packets of breakfast cereal, flour (sold in big bags for making couscous and bread at home), sugar (for sweetening mint tea), and bread from the store bakery.

They look at TVs, cookers and laptop computers on sale (the keyboard shows Arabic letters as well as our alphabet, and is laid out in French “AZERWERTY” order.

At the checkout, the operator scans their purchases as they pack them and pay.

Children echo the words, and try to remember them when text is OFF.

Talk about...

n Discuss what children notice, highlighting similarities and differences with your own community, e.g. the products and packaging.

Watch film C2: Khémisset market

❑ Film C2 shows farmers and traders arriving in donkey carts at Khémisset souk (market) from surrounding villages and countryside. Inside the arched entrance, see the crowds of

C2: NEW WORDS

C2: Shopping in Morocco - traditional le marché le souk les tapis les babouches les épices des légumes du poisson les beignets la menthe de la viande le porteur d’eau les vêtements le tailleur la djellaba le hijab

- market

- traditional market

- carpets

- slippers

- spices

- some vegetables

- some fish

- doughnuts

- mint

- some meat

- water carrier

- clothes

- tailor

- djellaba

- hijab il fait des altérations he does alterations

Phrases

Qu’est-ce qu’on mange? What shall we eat?

Qu’est-ce qu’on bois? What shall we drink?

people, and how they are dressed. What are they buying? Clothes - we see stalls with traditional djellabas for men and kaftans for women (practical for keeping comfortable in hot sun or cold desert nights); and slippers (babouches) for wearing indoors, to keep houses and carpets clean.

The food stalls sell spices and olives, sold loose by weight from piles on display; vegetables (green peppers, ginger roots) also sold by weight on simple balancing scales.

A water seller walks past ringing his bell.

A fish stall sells heaps of sardines, straight from the Atlantic coast, where Morocco has one of the world’s richest fishing grounds.

A meat stall sells halal meat; Muslims have strict hygiene rules and must eat meat slaughtered in a certain way; they cannot eat pork.

Some stalls also sell snacks: while shopping people stop to eat a freshly-fried doughnut (un beignet), with a glass of mint tea (thé à la menthe).

Key Sounds

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

as in...courses, babouches, souk, ouvert heard before in couscous, genou as in... achète, babouches, marché heard before in bouche, chat as in... marché, épices, céréales, légumes, thé heard before in épaule, école as in... vêtements, viande, menthe heard before in mange, jambon as in... tailleur heard before in taille, famille, fille

You see heaps of fresh mint ready for making this traditional drink.

A tailor seated at his open-air pedal-powered sewing machine does alterations and repairs to clothes on the spot.

Film C2: Haggling over a carpet in Khémisset market. Under cover, valuable locally-woven carpets (un tapis) are on display, with typical patterns - made with wool from local sheep that is also spun and dyed locally.

Customers haggle with the carpet traders until they agree a price. Moroccan carpets are worldfamous; every home is furnished with them, and tourists like to take them back as souvenirs.

Get used to the sounds ‘Shopping 2’ n What similarities and differences with your own community do children notice? n Do families go out shopping at night where you live? n Compare familar shops with those you see in the souk at Khémisset

❑ Echoing: Show the e-flashcards marked ‘C2’ with sound and text ON.

What are people buying?

Olives, meat, fruit, vegetables, and freshlybaked traditional round flat loaves of bread.

“Faisons les courses” - “let’s go shopping!”.

What else can you see?

Talk about...

Talking point 3

EVERYDAY LIFE IN MOROCCO

Barbary pirates n Discuss what children notice, highlighting similarities and differences with your own community - for example, why do they buy slippers? (to keep their carpets clean).

Children echo the words, and try to remember them when text is OFF.

Talk about...

Watch film C3: The souk at night

❑ Film C3 shows Khémisset souk at night

At 10pm, there is no outdoor market, but the town centre’s narrow streets and alleys are well-lit and thronged with people - including families with children - mingled with cars, lorries and bikes.

After a long day at work, people are shopping in the cool of the evening; the shops are open to the street, with counters piled with what they have to sell.

SEE PRESENTATiON “PIRATES”: There were many pirates based in strongholds in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, which was known as the Barbary Coast. They attacked ships trading in the Mediterranean, and crossing the Atlantic from European colonies in North and South America.

The Barbary pirates siezed valuable ships and cargoes, and made big profits selling their captives as slaves. They raided coastal villages in Europe to carry people away into slavery. Sultans of Morocco allowed pirates to use the old walled town at Salé, now Rabat, which was then disused and empty.

The harbour in the river estuary in the shadow of the fortress walls made this a handy pirate base. From here they could sell captured sailors as slaves, or release them if someone was prepared to pay a ransom.

Film A1: The river estuary was the pirates’ harbour at Rabat. Other countries had pirates: Sir Francis Drake was a famous English pirate. Queen Elizabeth I allowed him to attack Spanish ships in the years before the Spanish Armada. She took a share in the profits from selling the ships and cargoes and ransoming wealthier captives.

Talking point 4

EVERYDAY LIFE IN MOROCCO

Delacroix - working from sketches

SEE PRESENTATiON “ART”: Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) visited Morocco in 1832, as part of a diplomatic mission to negotiate a Treaty of Friendship with the Sultan. Moroccans were helping Arab resistance to French rule in neighbouring Algeria, and the French badly needed the Sultan to be neutral.

Pirate ships escaped into their Salé stronghold in Morocco. Previously “Talking Point 1” suggests how the problems of piracy were an important reason why European powers conquered and colonised Morocco in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Talk about...

n Discuss English and Moroccan pirates. What would it be like to be a Spanish sailor captured by Sir Francis Drake? ...or an English fisherman taken from your bed in a night-time raid by Barbary pirates?

n Find out about Robinson Crusoe; he started his adventures by being captured by Barbary pirates. Crusoe later escaped, only to be shipwrecked on a desert island.

Later, he used his sketches to create elaborate paintings, like this one of the Sultan made in 1845, 13 years after the event Working from sketches

Delacroix filled several sketchbooks on his travels. He often produced different final works from the same raw materials in his sketches; we focus on one large work, the ‘Sultan of Morocco’, painted in 1845.