Pupil offers: 'Cinq sours', and asks: 'How do I say no brothers?'
Another offers: 'trois frðres'
Pupil: 'How do you say no brothers and sisters?'
Teachertells
Pupil repeats, sounds like: Tsche n'ai pas..'
Teacher moves on to revising animals
I volunteer: 'J'ai deux chats'
Teacher: 'Combien de chats a-t-elle?'
Pupil: 'She has two cats'.
Teacher: 'Comment s'appellent-ils?', 'Whatdoesthatmean?'
Pupil: I've got a dog’.
Teacher asks: ,Who remembers French for 'rabbit'?'
Three children do.
Teacher moves on to game where pupils pretend to be an animal in front of
class
Teacher asks: 'Qu'est-ce que c'est?'
Pupil answers: 'A dog' although class was told to say the animals in French
Pupils seem to enjoy this
Teacher moves on to introducing classroom objects: French native speaker
models
Chorus class repetitions
Teacher asks: 'Cest un∕une...?' with flashcard not matching
Pupils answer: 'Non, c'est un∕une...'
Not many remember the items
Teacher moves on to cassette and worksheet
Pupils are supposed to hold up the classroom item mentioned on the tape.
Most copy me
Teacherwrites 'un∕une' on chalkboard and pupils are supposed to offer words
to fit gender e.g. 'un style', 'une regie'
Teacher asks: ,What does 'un∕une' mean?'
Pupil volunteers: 'I have'
Not one ofthem can guess!
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