Teaching resource for using the short film Les Crayons for teaching French at KS3. Created through the BFI Screening Languages project, funded by the London Schools Excellence Fund.

1. Tu as les yeux gris?
Défi!
Which opinion
words did you
learn last lesson?
Can you give me a
sentence in
French using
this?
On se connecte: Mets les images dans l’ordre correcte./ Put the
pictures in the correct order.
A B
C
D
E
F
Solution
1. A
2. E
3. B
4. C
5. F
6. D
Lundi, vingt-quatre
novembre

3. Tu as les yeux gris?Jeudi, vingt-sept
novembre
On se connecte: What type of film do you think is Les Crayons? / C’est
quel genre de film? Search the underlined words in the dictionary!
B) C’est un film
romantique.
E) C’est un film
d’horreur.
D) C’est
une
comédie.
A) C’est un film d’action. C) C’est un
film
d’aventure.
Défi!
i) Define the
word genre.
ii) Translate the
other genres.

4. Les objectifs du jour:
ALL: Will be able to say a description of someone’s hair and eyes.
MOST : Will be able to a description of someone’s hair and eyes, with
quantifiers.
SOME: Will also be able to say what someone’s hair and eyes are like,
use quanitifiers and opinion phrases.

5. Il a les yeux bleus
1. What do the 3 parts mean?
2. What does the whole sentence mean?
= He has
I.e. Il a un crayon.
= eyes = blue
Elle a les cheveux bruns
= She has
E.g. Elle a un stylo.
= hair = brown

6. Il/elle a les yeux…
develop

7. Il/elle a les yeux…
develop

8. Il/elle a les yeux…
marron
develop

9. Il/elle a les cheveux…
develop

10. Il/elle a les cheveux…
develop

11. Il/elle a les cheveux…
develop

12. Il/elle a les cheveux…
develop

13. Il/elle a les cheveux…
develop
et ondulés

14. Il/elle a les cheveux…
develop
Et courts

15. Il/elle a les cheveux…
develop
et

16. Il/elle a les cheveux…
develop
et frisés

17. 1) Il a les yeux 10) Brown (hair)
2) Elle a les yeux 8) Brown (eyes)
3) Il a les cheveux 1) He has …eyes
4) Elle a les cheveux 3) He has …hair
5) Bleus 6) Green
6) Verts 9) Blond
7) Gris 2) She has…eyes
8) Marron 7) Grey
9) Blonds 11) Ginger
10) Bruns 12) Black
11) Roux 4) She has…hair
12) Noirs 13) Chestnut
13) Chatains 5) Blue
A) Frisés B) Long
B) Longs C) Short
C) Courts D) Wavy
D) Ondulés A) Curly
EXT #1
Match up
the hair
adjectives
EXT #2
Write a short
description of
someone in the
class.

18. 1. What colour eyes do she have?
Elle a les yeux ___________.
2. What colour hair does she have?
Elle a les cheveux ________.
3. Is her hair short / long / wavy /etc.
Elle a les cheveux ________.
Extention - Use quantifiers!
Très
Assez
Un peu
E.g. Elle a les yeux très verts
1. Compare the two main characters’
hair and eye colour.
- Use quantifiers
- Make sure the adjectives agree
with the noun
(masculine/feminine/plural)
Extention – Use connectives!
Mais
Cependant
Aussi
E.g. Elle a les cheveux longs mais il a
les cheveux courts.

19. Sentence starter:
Il a = He has
Elle a = She has

20. Name:
1. Comment il/elle s’appelle?
2. Il/elle est comment?
Name:
1. Comment il/elle s’appelle?
2. Il/elle est comment?