Early Start French 3: released in 3 parts

Building on Starter Pack 1 and Continuation Pack 2
with more language and culture of France
for young beginners

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Preview Early Start French 3
Extension Pack 3 builds on Early Start French Packs 1 and 2, meeting the needs of children who have already learnt the language for 2-3 years starting in year 3 or before.

Knowing that many schools want to plan ahead, or even start teaching with these more advanced resources, we'll be releasing Pack 3 in 3 parts, A B and C - see 'Contents' table below.

Part A was on show at the Primary Language Show with very favourable response. Following the Show, we're doing some final filming in Bèthune. When will it be ready? gives the anticipated release dates of each part.

We hope that the final complete resource will be available by December 2010. MFL becomes an official curriculum requirement for English KS2 schools in September 2011.

When will it be ready?

We saw French children on a mini-beast hunt (ch.3.4) and in a ballet class (ch.3.1).

Filming in Béthune for Early Start French 3, autumn 2009...

...the local paper, the "Voix du Nord" featured Early Start's return to the Béthune area in March 2010. Here pupils in École Jacques Prevert. a primary school in Ruitz near Bruay sang some great songs with headteacher Françoise Antit (pictured left) for Early Start French 3. The children also told us jokes, re-told the story of 'Cendrillon' (Cinderella), described attractions they'd visited and enjoyed the rides at Béthune Fair.

What's in Early Start French 3, "Ici et là"

Chapter	covering:	QCA SoW links	Release date
1. Les parties du corps	Parts of the body; describing a person contexts: ballet class, playing Twister	unit 4	A
2. À l'école du cirque	Leisure activities; language for PE context: Lille Circus School	unit 10, unit 3	A
3. Au zoo	Food chains; habitats; where animals come from context: Lille Zoo		B
4. Les mini-bêtes	Mini-beasts Context: Parc d'Olhain nature park	unit 4	B
5. Bienvenue au Maroc	French-speaking children in Morocco, a Muslim country in Africa See also: Morocco Resource Pack	unit 20	B
6. Bonne Santé	Healthy eating; past tense context: making Crêpes; Quick fast food chain	unit 13	A
7. En route pour l'école	How children travel to school; routes to school; Green Travel / improving my town.	units 7 and 15	B
8. Les Saisons	What French children do in different seasons, and different times of day	units 17 'Les quatre saisons' and 19	C
9. Le passé et le présent	Comparing with the past; my town then and now. context: sars-Poteries school centenary	unit 22 'Le passé et le présent'	C
10.Ici et là	Theme parks and other places to visit	unit 23 'Au parc d'attractions'	C
11. Cendrillon	Traditional tale in an historic setting context: Château d'Olhain	unit 7 and others	C

Filming a French primary school's visit to Lille Zoo: the rare Red Panda caught playing in the tree-tops
(ch.3.3)

We followed a class of 8-year olds, who told us what they found out about the animals at the Zoo as part of their lessons on Science and the Environment.