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• Qu’est-ce qu’il porte ? Qu’est-ce qu’elle porte ? What is he wearing? What is she wearing? • Quelle est ta tenue préférée ? Which is your favourite outfit? • Pourquoi ? Why? • Can you extend your sentence with a conjunction? Can you add an adjective? designers will incorporate the traditional West African head covering known as un moussor , whilst others may showcase an elegant, ankle-length robe worn by men and women for special occasions known as un boubou . These words need to be taught to the pupils, in addition to any previous vocabulary, to allow them to describe what individuals are wearing, and to enhance children’s cultural understanding. Using BBC videos of Dakar Fashion Week, (like this one, starting at 6:05 tinyurl.com/ tp-BBCDakarFW ), gives pupils a sense of the colours, shapes and movement of the different designs and helps to impart the energy of this amazing event. masculine and feminine quite tricky, but it’s helpful to explain that, in essence, it is a way of grouping nouns. 2 | SEE IT Introduce the class to Dakar FashionWeek, an event which takes place in the Senegalese capital every year. Just like Paris, Milan and New York FashionWeeks, this is an opportunity for designers to meet and show off their creations. Dakar Fashion Week draws designers from across the African continent, some of whom use traditional materials and processes to create masterpieces. Draw pupils’ attention to the fact that many designers are inspired to create outfits that reflect their African heritages. For example, some • Encourage children to bring colour adjectives into their sentences to add detail. Discuss the order of sentences in French and explain that the adjective comes before the noun. So, to describe a blue t-shirt you would say un t-shirt bleu . • Ask pupils to express opinions about different outfits, using phrases such as j’aime (I like) or je n’aime pas (I don’t like). They might extend using the phrase parce que c’est (because it’s) and use dictionaries to add their own adjective to finish the sentence: joli (pretty), moche (ugly) or coloré (colourful). EXTENDING THE LESSON 3 | SAY IT Using stills of various outfits from Dakar FashionWeek, model to the pupils creating sentences which reflect an aspect of the outfit, starting with il porte (he is wearing) or elle porte (she is wearing), describing individual aspects of the outfits and modelling the use of the conjunctions et (and) or avec (with) to extend sentences and add additional information to the sentence. La Trappe (Trapdoor) is a fun game to play, in which children build sentences using a grid. The children use the grid to secretly write a sentence, which their partner must guess, section by section. If they guess the section option correctly, they can move on to the next block, but if they fail, they must go back to the beginning and start again. These grids make excellent scaffolds for speaking, and later, writing, where children can create mini books with a different outfit on each page and a short, written description underneath. Find a template for Trapdoor at the link on the right. Ellie Chettle Cully is a French teacher and languages and international lead at a Leicester primary. “It is essential that even our youngest pupils understand the concept of la francophonie : the French-speaking world” USEFUL QUESTIONS Download your FREE Trapdoor game template at tinyurl.com/ tp-Trapdoor Il porte Elle porte un t-shirt un short un pantalon un moussor un boubou une jupe une robe et avec un t-shirt un pantalon un short un moussor un boubou une jupe une robe Clothing Trapdoor en français une chemise une chemise Developed by Ellie Chettle Cully www.teachwire.net | 89