City of Edinburgh
French Early Level
Feelings
Vocabulary
2. Feelings
Initially teacher can ask the question and start with 3 (e.g.) possible responses. This can
progress to the learners using Et toi? and then adding in more responses and Ça va? as
they grow more confident.
Ça va?
Ça va bien
Ça va
Comme ci comme ça
Ça ne va pas
Ça va mal
Et toi?
You can also use Comment ça va? Which means How are you?
How are you?
I am well
I am fine
So-so
I am not good
I am bad
And you?
Ça va?
Ça va bien!
Ça va
Comme ci, comme ça!
Ça ne va pas!
Ça va mal!
Et toi?
Embedding the language
Start each day with asking Ça va? Around
the class.
Create Ça va? cards for pupils with
printed off miniature copies of the
smileys. Ask Ca va? at the start of the
day, after break, after lunch and ask
pupils to choose their answer and say it to
a partner or around the class.
I am aware of and able to express my feelings and am developing the ability to talk
about them.
HWB 0-01a / HWB 1-01a / HWB 2-01a / HWB 3-01a / HWB 4-01a
Sample activities
You will find a bank of sample activities which you can use to
practice the vocabulary in the classroom.
This is not a prescriptive list of activities and you can use or
adapt them to suit the needs of your class.
Activité 1
Ça va around the world!
Ça va? around the world
1. Look at the faces in the following
photos, decide on how the person is
feeling and then say what this is in
French.
2. You can also make the face of the
person in the picture!
I am aware of and able to express my feelings and am developing the ability to talk
about them.
HWB 0-01a / HWB 1-01a / HWB 2-01a / HWB 3-01a / HWB 4-01a
Regardez
et
les visages
décidez si
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Activité 2
Ça va feelings cards
Feelings cards
1. Sitting in a circle, the teacher places
pictures of smileys into the centre e.g.
happy, sad, straight line face etc.
2. All pupils then ask the teacher, “Ça va?”
3. The teacher responds with a feeling and
chooses one pupil to pick a smiley which
matches that feeling from the centre.
4. This can be extended by that pupil then
being the next to answer Ça va?
Activité 3
Ça va charades!
Comme
ci
comme
ça
Feelings cards
1. Pupils sit in a circle or at front of class.
2. Teacher creates a set of cards with
different feelings written on them and
places them in the centre of a circle.
3. One pupil comes out to the front and chooses
a card.
4. They then have to act out the feeling on that
card and the rest should try and guess what
the feeling is.
Activité 5
Chair spin Ça va!
Chair spin Ça va!
1. One pupil comes out to the front of the class
and sits on the teacher’s spinny chair!
2. The teacher turns the chair to face the wall
and so that the pupil is facing away from the
class.
3. The pupil then has to put an expression of a
feeling on their face before the teacher
turns them round to face the class, keeping
the same expression!
4. The rest of the class then have to guess the
feeling that the pupil is acting out.
5. The winner goes next!
Activité 6
Situation Ça va!
Situation Ça va!
1. Look at the pictures and ask pupils to say
how they would feel in these situations e.g.
Ça va bien in a beach picture.
2. If they don’t know they can use:
Je ne sais pas (I don’t know)
Regardez
et
les photos
décidez si
If you don’t know, you can say…
Je ne sais pas! (I don’t know)
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Ça va?
Songs!
You will find a bank of sample songs which you can use to
practise the vocabulary in the classroom.
This is not a prescriptive list of songs and you can use or adapt
them to suit the needs of your class.
Bonjour Bonjour (and Ça va) song
Ça va song
ICT Resources online
You will find a bank of sample ICT activities which you can use to
practise the vocabulary in the classroom.
This is not a prescriptive list of activities and you can use or
adapt them to suit the needs of your class.
Each of the slides contains an image of the website page. If you
click on the image it will take you to the page. Alternatively you
can use a link address which you will find in the slide notes.
BBC Primary French
Victoria Languages Online
How are you?
Au revoir!