A Chacun son Tour

Use these three activity sheets from the French website based on the Tour de France, ‘A chacun son Tour’  www.achacunsontour.com. These are authentic materials used by French primary children, and are accessible and interesting for British pupils.  Explain what the Tour de France is, and show pupils a map of where this year’s Tour goes (see www.letour.fr).
 
Manger looks at different foodstuffs and asks pupils to compose a healthy menu, decide on a missing healthy item, find out about the main food categories.  In this section pupils could list all the cognates they find and compare what they find out here to what they have been taught in Food Technology. pdf "manger"
 
Bouger looks at different categories of sports.  Look at the categories ‘sports d’endurance’, ‘sports de souplesse’ and ‘sports de musculatation’ and see if you can work out what they mean .  What type of physical activity does each entail and what are its beneficial effects? pdf "bouger"
 
Eau looks at the importance of drinking water.  Use it with the supporting document with useful words translated and the answers to the ‘vrai/faux’ activity. pdf "eau"
 
Relevance to the New Curriculum

Key concepts

Linguistic competence: developing the skills of reading in a range of situations and contexts (vocabulary for food and sports)

Creativity: using familiar language in a new context

Intercultural understanding: developing an international outlook: finding out about the Tour de France; recognising that there are different ways of seeing the world: compare the way that healthy living is taught in France and the UK.
 
Key processes

Developing language-learning strategies: use knowledge of English when learning French

Developing language skills: respond appropriately to written texts