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?