Beginners birthday celebration activities
Birthday celebrations for beginners
Here is a simple beginners’” birthday celebration lesson”inFrench and Spanish!
Eitherdownload pictures of French/Spanish birthday cards or show the children realFrench birthday cards. Discuss in English similarities and any differences withour own birthday cards.
The activities below involve numbers 0-11 , a birthday greeting and how to ask and answer age
Numbers pass the parcel
Play pass the parcel/sack as a circleactivity to revise numbers 0-11.In the sack there should be number cards from 0-11
Play French/Spanish birthday music justlike the two suggested clips below.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TsBinVLd2s]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnmUcw33zGE]
Insidethe sack are number cards from 0-11.When the music stops ask the child who hasthe bag to pick out a number card and show the class. Can the class say thenumber in French?
Playa second game and this time can the child who picks out the number card –conceal it and can the class guess the number on the card? You could ask theclass to sing along with the “happy birthday” phrase from the birthday sound cliptoo
Blowing out the candles
Teachthe children the rhyme in French or Spanish below for counting candles –startwith all the class holding up their closed fists ,then children should hold upa new finger for each additional candle from 1-10 ,and when you reach eleven,they should blow out all the candles and wave both hands up in the air!
Spanish
Contad las velas
1,2,3
Contad las velas
4,5,
Contad las velas
6,7,8
Contad las velas
9,10
Y
11!
French
Comptez les bougies
1,2,3
Comptez les bougies
4,5,
Comptez les bougies
6,7,8
Comptez les bougies
9,10
Y
11
- Passround a box with candles inside.
- Encourage the children to say the countingrhyme “Comptez les bougies 1,2,3” /contad las velas with you .
- At the end of the rhyme , take out acertain number of candles and show them in your hand .
- Can the childrenremember the number in French or Spanish for the quantity they can see.
- Checkwith them by blu-tacking the candles to the top of the box as it was a pretendcake .Were they correct?
- Play the game again.
What age are you?
- Askthe children which number in French/Spanish would be the right number to give fortheir current age.
- Ask children to put up hand if they are 7 and to put up handif they are 8 for example.
Agepackages
- Teachthe children in the target language the phrases for “How old are you? and “I am …. years old”.
- Askthe children to work out how many syllables there are in the question and to standlike a wrapped up present as they start their question phrased and the to breakout of the wrapping syllable by syllable until they have said the wholequestion .
- Repeat several times and watch good examples of performance .
- Repeatwith the response to the question in a similar way.
Circle party game
(Circleswithin circles)
- Standthe children in a circle and go round and number the children alternately 1 and2.
- All the number 1 children must ask the question of the number 2 children “howold are you?” in the target language and all the number 2 children must respondtruthfully.
- Swap over and repeat the activity
- Nowmake an inner and outer circle of number one children and number two children.It’s speed birthday greetings!
- Number one circle must ask the child opposite them in umber two circle their age and say happy birthday and then the number one circle one move one step to their left so they have a new partner. Afterfive goes swap roles so number two circle children are asking the questions etc
Amusical game
- Allchildren to stand in a circle and sing with the teacher “J’ai 7 ans” to thetune of frère jacques”.
- When the music stops children who are 7 sit down.
- Sing again and this timechange the age from 7 to 8.
- This time all the children who are 8 sit down