How do we pronounce the words we need for Au Café? Jo Rhys-Jones, Hampshire Languages Consultant, 2010 Objectives: to recognise patterns and to revise.

How do we pronounce the words we need for Au Café?

Jo Rhys-Jones, Hampshire Languages Consultant, 2010

Objectives: to recognise patterns and to revise knowledge of phoneme/grapheme corrsepondance in the foreign language. (KAL)

un café

• é always rhymes with ‘ay’

un coca

• ‘c’ is hard unless it is followed by e or i.

une tasse de thé

• ‘th’ is always pronounced ‘t’

• é always rhymes with ‘ay’

• note in France tea is usually served without milk.

un chocolat chaud

• ‘ch’ is usually pronounced ‘sh.

• ‘au’ always rhymes with the English letter ‘O’

• Did you remember not to say the last letter of each word?

un café au lait

• é and ai rhyme with ‘ay’

• au rhymes with the English letter ‘O’

• Remember not to say the last letter!

It means coffee with milk

une glace

• ‘c’ followed by e or i is softened and sounds like an ‘s’.

une salade niçoise

• ç always sounds like an ‘s’

• oi always rhymes with ‘wa’

It means ‘Salad in the style of Nice’, a city in the South of France.

une portion de frites

• ‘tion’ in French is always pronounced ‘see-yon’

• the French ‘i’ sounds like an English capital ‘E’ Be careful – The French word ‘chips’

means crisps!

un sandwich, un hot-dog, un hamburger

• These words are borrowed from English, so we just say them in a French way!

une pizza

• And this word is borrowed from Italian!

How many can you remember?

How many can you remember?