初级法语教学4 Activities recognising_phonemes.docVIP

Activities to do to practise recognising phonemes graphemes (roughly in the order I’ve done them) Grapheme = a combination of letters that make a certain sound Phoneme = the sound made by a combination of letters LEARNING OBJECTIVES Get pupils to: recognise the relationship between how words look how they sound build up a bank of knowledge about common graphemes phonemes in French use these to help figure out how to say new words in the future – by looking for the graphemes and relating them to words they already know which have the same grapheme. Family fortunes starter Basically to get them to revise some of the words from the mystery cards that they already know, and so you can have a quiet starter before introducing the phonics stuff. Mystery cards Give each pair a card and tell them to work out what the pictures have in common. Each card represents a certain sound in French. They’ll need to use dictionaries and after a while they’ll need a clue that they shouldn’t be thinking about what the pictures are, but what the French words for them are. Discuss key sounds in French Choose some common sounds that people often don’t know how to say – I concentrated on oi, au/eau/o, ui, ou eu to begin with. Give the pupils some time with their yellow booklets to find all the words they can which have these graphemes in them. Get them to come up write them on the board in the right column. Bisous d’Eskimo Put the first couple of verses of the song on the screen ask them to find all the words they can that have oi, au/eau/o, ui, ou eu in them. Get them to come up underline them, then get people to have a go at saying the unfamiliar words, using the sound patterns they’ve underlined. Try reading the whole thing out together, then listen to the song do a certain action each time they hear one of these phonemes. Sound islands On board, have pictures of 3 islands which each represent a different grapheme (if you use this activity early on, use graphemes that ar