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The Early Start French course gradually builds children's language knowledge and skills with carefully-planned  progression from a small and simple vocabulary.  This gives them a sound foundation  for later study at secondary school.
Early Start French 1: "Salut! Ça va?"
French 1 "Me and you" - each section gradually progresses children's language skills, helping them talk about themselves in French and find out about other people:
It includes many NEW FILMS, added to your old favourites, covering all these topics...
Saying hello and goodbye
How are you?
My family
Colours
What's your name?
Numbers: 0 to 39
How old are you?
What's the weather like today?
Days of the week
Months
When is your birthday?

What's the date today?
Do you have a pet?
How many brothers and sisters?
Celebrating Christmas
​PLUS 
Bridging unit, consolidation & assesment
           Classroom language for teachers
[continued in French 2]
Specially-filmed in France - SAMPLE
To see more videos AND a sample chapter.
The sample chapter from the Teacher's Manual is full of practical teaching ideas using the sample movie about 'COLOURS'.
Click HERE.
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Each chapter in French 1's NEW revised Teacher's Manual is full of suggested activities to develop the language and explore the culture shown in the films.
It can browsed online, printed out for convenient reading, or copies can be purchased. 
​There are also photocopiable activity sheets to support a variety of games and activities.  
Use e-flashcards on your whiteboard, songs and the "talking dictionary" for teachers - 
...with Inter-Cultural Understanding and cross-curricular links
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Playing with friends on the beach
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Celebrating a 10th birthday in a French school...
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Typical children's games give a good context for using French
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A child's eye view of traditional customs.
e-flashcards help develop children's language skills...
Ready-to-show flashcards
Electronic and printable Flashcards to get to know the sounds of the new words, explore patterns and play games.... with native speaker voice and optional text
Sing-along songs
Sing-along to the catchy songs from Pack 1 - a great way to imprint new language on the brain (!), with karaokeversions displaying text line-by-line in time with the music....
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Fun interactive activities and cultural presentations ...
now included online
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Sort days of the week into order - whilst hearing each word as you move it.
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Type a French person's name as you hear it spelled out, letter-by-letter.
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Famous French people: like Louis Blériot
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Arrange the words on screen to make the sentence you hear - in this case, a phrase describing weather.
...plus NEW tools to help you prepare your lessons
1. Pronunciation Guide
Check on the sounds for your next lesson - all the key words presented for each chapter - just click on Talking Dictionary to hear how each is pronounced. Great support for the non-specialist teacher...
2. Phonemes
Planning to focus on phonemes? ... click to hear and compare examples of key French sounds in that chapter...
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Choose French 1: "Salut! Ça va?"

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Price for manual and binder £ inc.p&p no VAT
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Alternative:  earlystart@me.com

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