Casse-langue: the sound [ch] in French
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This French phonics resource for KS3 or KS4 students teaches and practises the sound–symbol correspondence [ch].
The PowerPoint compares the pronunciation of the grapheme 'ch' in English with how it is pronounced in French and includes audio recordings of a native speaker to model the correct sound in French. It includes three tongue-twisters with audio recordings, progressing from easy to challenging. There is also a competition to see who can think of the most French words spelt with 'ch'. Picture cards for inspiration are provided in the Word/PDF file. These can also be used as flashcards to teach the vocabulary and pronunciation at the start of the lesson and/or to test recall in a plenary.
In the final activity, students write their own French tongue-twister with the SSC [ch], using the images to give them ideas. The Word/PDF contains a differentiated version of this activity with three levels of challenge: 1) put the words in order to make a tongue-twister, 2) translate the sentences from English to French or 3) invent a tongue-twister using the word list provided.
The topics covered in this resource are animals, where I live (furniture in the house) and describing people (hair and clothes).
An extract from the answers to the differentiated tongue-twister worksheets:
4. Le chien chasse le cheval châtain.
The dog is chasing the chestnut horse.
5. Charlie chante dans sa chambre.
Charlie is singing in his bedroom.
6. Natacha se sèche les cheveux châtains dans sa chambre.
Natacha is drying her dark brown hair in her bedroom.
