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Parent guide · Grade 3 French · Unit 2

Lesson 2.2 De Onze à Vingt

Written for the parent. The Read aloud parts are written to your child; read them as they are. Do this parts are for you. Answers for you are marked Listen for.

At a glance

Time
3 sessions of 20–30 minutes
Goal
Count from 11 to 20 in French and spell the number words. Say sums aloud with plus, moins and ça fait. Retell the feeding of the five thousand with French numbers.
You need
  • Paper, scissors, crayons
  • Two small baskets or bowls
  • A sketchbook or plain paper, and crayons
  • A King James Bible
Print
Worksheet A · the lesson page (it also has a short video (3:15))

Steps

  1. Do this together: Count from zéro to dix in French. Can you go further? Today you reach vingt and start doing math in French.

  2. Read aloud: The story. One day a huge crowd followed Jesus out to a hillside by the Sea of Galilee: five thousand men, besides women and children. It grew late and they were hungry. Jesus asked Philip where they could buy bread. Philip said even two hundred pennies’ worth would not be enough. Then Andrew said, There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many? Jesus gave thanks and fed everyone, and afterward the disciples filled twelve baskets with the leftovers! In French: cinq pains, deux poissons, douze paniers.

    Read aloud: Counting. onze, douze, treize, quatorze, quinze, seize are special words. Then French adds: dix-sept (ten-seven), dix-huit (ten-eight), dix-neuf (ten-nine), and vingt (VAN).

    Read aloud: French math. Say Cinq plus deux, ça fait sept. (5 + 2 = 7.) Douze moins trois, ça fait neuf. (12 − 3 = 9.) The s at the end of plus is said in math: PLÜS. Moins is hummed: MWAN.

  3. Do this: Say each word clearly; your child says it back twice. Point to a picture or the real thing when you can.

    • onze [OHNZ]: eleven
    • douze [DOOZ]: twelve
    • treize [TREHZ]: thirteen
    • quatorze [kah-TORZ]: fourteen
    • quinze [KANZ]: fifteen
    • seize [SEHZ]: sixteen
    • dix-sept [dee-SET]: seventeen
    • vingt [VAN]: twenty
    • plus [PLÜS]: plus
    • moins [MWAN]: minus
    • ça fait [sah FEH]: that makes; equals
    • le panier [luh pah-NYAY]: basket

  4. Show: Say 9 + 8 = 17 in French.

    Say this: “9 is neuf, 8 is huit.”

    Say this: “17 is dix-sept.”

    Answer: Neuf plus huit, ça fait dix-sept.

    Show: Say 20 − 5 = 15 in French.

    Say this: “Minus is moins.”

    Say this: “15 is quinze.”

    Answer: Vingt moins cinq, ça fait quinze.

  5. Do this: Ask out loud. Let your child try first; help only after a real try.

    Ask: Say 13 in French.

    Listen for: Treize.

    Ask: Say 16 in French.

    Listen for: Seize.

    Ask: Say 20 in French.

    Listen for: Vingt.

    3 more on the lesson page.

  6. Read aloud: Use paper loaves and fishes to act out sums in French.

    Steps:

    1. Draw and cut out ten loaves and ten fishes.
    2. Put some in each basket and say the sum: Trois pains plus quatre pains, ça fait sept pains.
    3. Take some away: Dix poissons moins deux poissons, ça fait huit poissons.
    4. Write five of your sums in your notebook with words.

    Tips for you:

    • Act out the story with the loaves and fishes.
    • Let a parent give you sums to solve aloud.

    Done when your child can say:

    • I said five sums in French.
    • I can count to vingt.

  7. Do this: Your child picks one or more; you write the date.

    1. Write the numbers 11 to 20 as words in your French notebook. Then write four sums in words: Onze plus deux, ça fait treize.

  8. Read aloud: French cash registers and price tags use a comma where English uses a decimal point: 2,50 € means two euros and fifty cents.

    • Writing dix sept without the hyphen. It is dix-sept.
    • Saying vingt with a g or t. Say VAN.

  10. Count in French with a partner, taking turns: one says un, the other deux, and so on. Whoever says vingt wins. Then count backwards from vingt. If you make a mistake, start over!

  11. Say this: “Tell me what you learned today.”

    Listen for: Count from 11 to 20 in French and spell the number words.; Say sums aloud with plus, moins and ça fait.; Retell the feeding of the five thousand with French numbers.

  12. There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

    John 6:9 (KJV)

    In the Louis Segond Bible (1910): <i lang="fr">un jeune garçon qui a cinq pains d’orge et deux poissons</i> A boy gave Jesus his five loaves and two fishes, and Jesus fed thousands. God can do great things with small gifts.

Spread over the week

3 sessions of 20–30 minutes. Stop while it is still going well.

  1. Session 1. Warm-up, then read and teach the new idea and the new words. Show how.
  2. Session 2. Practice together, then start the project. Finish the project, then the sketchbook.
  3. Session 3. Narration, the game and the Scripture.