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) Le fromage, la viande Les oeufs, les fruits Les légumes, le gâteau Des bonbons, du lait Du coca, du pain Des frites, du poisson Bon pour la santé Mauvais pour la santé Mademoiselle Bonne Santé joue au tennis. Elle mange cinq fruits et légumes chaque jour. Translation into English Cheese, meat Eggs, fruit Vegetables, cake Sweets, milk Coca cola, bread Chips, fish Good for your health Bad for your health 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