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Features
7 fully
animated original songs covering
topics usually introduced in the first
year of French, form a springboard to
conversation.
Through the
colourful and delightful graphics,
the
voices
of native French children are
charmingly translated into
three-dimensional characters, with whom
pupils immediately engage.
Karaoke tracks
and printable
song-words in French and English
allow children to learn and sing the
songs for performance in class or to
parents.
Animated grammar
explanations and examples, with
interactive
keyboard exercises, help children to
understand some basics of how the French
language works.
35 printable activity
sheets (with answers) consolidate
the vocabulary of the songs
and expand understanding of the French
language. Written at two levels, a
Piste
Verte
for younger children and a Piste Rouge
for older children or more intense study,
these
sheets are based on the songs and
comprise wordsearches, crosswords,
gap-fill,
code-breaking, role-play etc.
Benefits
• The
animated songs are like role-plays or
conversations set to melodic and
memorable tunes. Each song presents
words, phrases and sentences on two or
three vocabulary topics and, because they
are songs, all the repetition that is so
necessary in foreign language learning
happens automatically.
• The
animations immediately engage the
children and the visual aid doubles their
understanding.
• Lip
synchronisation of the animations helps
pupils in their pronunciation. A button
bar on the animations allows you to
remove the music to focus on
pronunciation and then to remove the
voices so that, once they know the songs,
children can sing along
karaoke-style.
This is a
super, motivational learning resource for
the classroom !
Moreover, it is
great
value for money because
• unlike most resources available
for KS2 French, which are one-play
activities, this programme can and should
be used over and over again with the same
children, as they learn more and more
from it with every playing, whilst their
enjoyment of it seems to be unending!
• all
age-groups from 6 – 12 will enjoy
and learn from Zim Zam Zoum at their own
level.
Songs
Zim Zam Zoum
– an introduction to the
characters
(Topics: greetings; saying name and
nationality; some action words)
Bonjour, bonjour,
salut !
(Topics: asking and saying name, age,
where you live and your favourite
colours)
Les Vingt
Bonbons
(Topic: counting to 20)
Comment ça va
?
(Topic: asking and saying how you are;
role-play)
Imagine !
(Topics: the natural world; further use
of colour; how to form the plural with
definite articles)
Quel temps fait-il
?
(Topics: weather phrases; days of the
week)
Tu as un animal
?
(Topics: animals; talking about pets,
saying their name and giving a short
description; role-play; how to form the
plural with indefinite articles)
Characters
Ten year old
English girl, Lucy, lives with her family
in the south-west of France,
in the city of Perpignan.
In ZIM ZAM ZOUM,
we meet her with her French
school-friends, a motley bunch of
charmingly drawn characters, from skater
Romain, to clever Yasmine, stylish
Gigi,
ragamuffin Louis, and all the
rest...!
We meet these
appealing and wittily animated characters
both at home and at school,
as they draw pupils into their world and
motivate learning.
In the two
animated grammar explanations, Lucy shows
how to form the plural and
her little dog, Nougat, takes you through
the interactive exercises, barking if you
get it
right and howling if you get it wrong
!
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