I'm Too Big

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This is a lovely simple story about opposites and self-esteem, with an appealing moral about the grass always seeming greener, It's a good way to help young beginners start working with adjectives in the new language without getting very grammatical - and the story themes suggest good potential cross-curricular links.

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Story summary:
The elephant and giraffe are unhappy. One would like to be taller, the other shorter.
One would like bigger ears, the other smaller ones.
But finally they agree - they like each other as they are.

Telling the story, fun with the text
The story is told (in the Talking Big Books version) with a series of simple animations that highlight how the two characters compare themselves.	Animated section from the story

Some of the varied activities on the CD-ROM As well as the story - beautifully told in French by a native speaker - you'll find...
games like spotting nouns, verbs and adjectives in the French text...	a simple quiz to help you understand particular words and phrases in French...	...re-arrange the jumbled pictures-and-narration in story order...
..sort the jumbled words of a sentence from the story..	...identify parts of the body when you hear them called out in French...	...and