12.3+Temperature

Use a thermometer or number line to count, for example, from zero to 30 degrees with children. Say //Il fait 30 degrés// and mime ‘very hot’. Repeat for some other hot places. || Link to Languages Online Weather games & activities (lots!) || Count down with the thermometer or number line. Stress //moins// before each number and stop at –10 degrees. Say, for example, //Il fait moins 5 degrés// and mime ‘very cold’. ||  || Invite a child to come out and stand next to each one as you say it. || Print out instructions to make your own weather station in French ||
 * Revise weather phrases using one of the activities from Section 1. || [[image:year4french/cold_day.jpg width="95" height="95" align="right"]] ||
 * Place pictures of hot and cold places labelled with a temperature (some with negative numbers) around the room. ||  ||
 * Use an activity from the previous session to revise numbers zero to 40 . ||  ||
 * Model how to say //degrés// (degrees). ||  ||
 * Point to a picture of a hot place.
 * Point to a picture of a cold place.
 * Practise saying the temperatures of the hot and cold places displayed around the room. ||  ||
 * Read out a temperature and children point to the matching picture.
 * Practise reading temperatures on a thermometer. Include some negative numbers. ||  ||