A PSHE activity - healthy eating - George Abbot

Embedding French in the Primary Curriculum
A cross-curricular activity for PSHE in French (Healthy eating)
Teacher’s Notes:
Learning Objective for PSHE: To reflect on which foods are good/bad for
our health.
Learning Objective for French: 1. To revise names of food items . 2. To
learn how to say ‘it’s healthy’ ‘it’s unhealthy’.
Resources: A4 cards, one saying ‘Bonne pour la santé’, one saying
‘Mauvais pour la santé’, two ‘name labels’ – Mademoiselle Bonne Santé and
Monsieur Mauvaise Santé, a set of flash cards showing variety of food items:
la viande, le fromage, les bonbons, les légumes, les fruits, le chocolat, props
(eg TV remote, empty cola can, tennis raquet, suncream).
Explanation of the activity: In this PSHE activity, you are using the headings
written on the A4 cards to get the children to reflect on whether a food is
healthy, unhealthy or somewhere in between.
Step 1 : revise the names of the food items, getting the children to repeat the
words (loudly, quietly, quickly, slowly etc),
Step 2 : ask for two volunteers. The volunteers are each given one of the
name labels, and appropriate props. In order to introduce Bon pour la santé /
Mauvais pour la santé , the teacher describes the two volunteers who are
now standing at the front: “Mademoiselle Bonne Santé joue au tennis. Elle
mange cinq fruits et légumes chaque jour. Monsieur Mauvaise Santé ne fait
pas d’exercice, il aime regarder la télé, manger des frites et boire du coca »
(card resources provided)
Step 3 : show the food cards and give out to the class as they correctly name
them. The class must decide whether that particular food should be placed
next to Mlle Bonne Santé or next to M Mauvaise Santé. Some discussion in
English will be inevitable, and useful, but see script below for French phrases.
Step 4 : mini-plenary. Teacher shows the cards in their groups. Firstly all
items which are bonne pour la santé. Then those which are mauvais pour la
santé. Can be consolidated either by a worksheet listing these items (and
similar ones where names are cognates); pupils tick the healthy ones and
cross the unhealthy ones. Or pupils recall from memory and write down
names of items which are healthy (as the focus is learning healthy /
unhealthy, a focus on 100% accuracy of spellings might not be appropriate).
Progression: suitability for which year group? Suitable for all year
groups. In Year 6 this activity may naturally lead on to extending sentences

further by adding opinions eg C’est bon pour la santé mais je n’aime pas la
salade. J’adore le chocolat mais c’est mauvais pour la santé. It can be
followed up by allowing the children to produce and illustrate posters to create
a classroom display.
Teacher’s script (generic)
Translation into English
Le fromage, la viande
Cheese, meat
Les oeufs, les fruits
Eggs, fruit
Les légumes, le gâteau
Vegetables, cake
Des bonbons, du lait
Sweets, milk
Du coca, du pain
Coca cola, bread
Des frites, du poisson
Chips, fish
Bon pour la santé
Good for your health
Mauvais pour la santé
Bad for your health
Mademoiselle Bonne Santé joue au
tennis. Elle mange cinq fruits et
légumes chaque jour.
Miss Good Health plays tennis. She
eats five fruit/vegetables each day!
Monsieur Mauvais Santé ne fait pas
d’exercice, il aime regarder la télé,
manger des frites et boire du coca.
Mr Bad Health does not exercise, he
likes to watch TV, eat chips and drink
coca cola !
Ça dépend
It depends
Comme ci, comme ça
In between