Chantez Plus Fort! book and CD set contains 20 easy-to-learn French songs written specifically to help children to learn French. They are linked to the QCA schemes of work for modern foreign languages at Key Stage 2. The songs introduce and reinforce key vocabulary for popular topics, such as: greetings; names and ages; time, days of the week, and months; shapes, colours and sizes; family and pets; food and drink; classroom items and weather. CD 1 contains all 20 songs sung by French children and mini-dialogues which can be used for listening comprehension and role-plays. CD 2 contains instrumental tracks for the 16 original songs. The accompanying book contains teachers' notes with ideas on how to introduce, use and extend the songs, photocopiable illustrated song sheets, photocopiable music sheets including guitar chords, scripts for the mini dialogues, and English translations of all the songs. The songs in this book are designed for 7-13 year olds. If you are a KS3 (Years 7-9; 11-14 year olds) teacher you may wish to order the KS3 version of this book (9780857476524). It contains the same songs.

 

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 56 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Brilliant Publications .

This book has the following chapters: Teacher's notes: Les chansons - The songs: Bonjour, ca va? (Greetings); Quel age as-tu? (Names and ages); Nous allons compter! (Numbers); C'est combien? (Numbers and maths); Voici les sept jours de la semaine (Days of the week); Quelle est la date? (Months, dates and birthdays); Comment ca s'ecrit? (Alphabet; spelling); Les couleurs (Shapes, colours and sizes); La famille Souris (Family); Footfoot, tu as un animal? (Pets); Je me presente (Myself); Miam, miam, c'est delicieux! (Food and drink); Jacques a dit (Simon says - classroom instructions); La chanson du non-sens (Rhymes and sounds); La chanson des listes (Classroom items; weather); Quelle heure est-il? (Telling the time); Vive le vent (Traditional (Christmas)); Ma mere m'a donne un petit chat (Traditional); C'est Gugusse (Traditional); Sur le pont d'Avignon (Traditional): Petits dialogues (Mini-dialogues): English translations.