Welcome to French The French Team: Mrs N Bywater: Head of Faculty Mrs H Smith: 2nd in Faculty Mrs R Foster / Mr S England: Teachers What you are going to learn in Year 7: In French you will learn how to understand and have simple conversaons about several topics: Talking about your family and friends Talking about school Talking about where you live Talking about your free-me An introducon to French: You will already know lots of French words. You might have learnt them at school OR you might simply be able to guess them. Lots of French words are the same or very similar to English. These are called cognates. Can you work out what the following French words mean? Write the English below. 1. la France 1. ………………………………………………………….. 2. L’éléphant 2. ………………………………………………………….. 3. La musique 3. ………………………………………………………….. 4. Le restaurant 4. ………………………………………………………….. 5. Le parc 5. ………………………………………………………….. 6. Rapide 6. ………………………………………………………….. 7. Dangereux 7. ………………………………………………………….. 8. Le serpent 8. ………………………………………………………….. 9. Le cinéma 9. …………………………………………………………. 10. Différent 10. ………………………………………………………..