The document summarizes two French language and culture clubs held at a school in Glasgow: Café Français and Cookery Club. Café Français involved students preparing a presentation on Paris and a song about colors. Cookery Club met every other week where students made traditional French dishes like crepes and practiced cooking vocabulary. The aims were to learn about French culture, appreciate language learning, and associate more fun with the subject. Students found it enjoyable to cook dishes and learn about French culture in a social setting while gaining confidence in their French abilities.

1. Café Français / Cookery Club
Agathe Orain
Glasgow City Council
Short description of Le Café Français: The pupils prepared a little
presentation for their families, including a PowerPoint on Paris, a song
about colors, and a French Café role-play.
Short description of Cookery Club: The pupils came every fortnight to
make a traditional French dish with a bilingual recipe, and practiced some
of the French cookery vocabulary (like foods and utensils). There were two
groups of ten pupils, who each made three dishes.
Aims and Objectives:
• Learn about French culture;
• Realise the importance of language learning;
• Associate more fun with learning French
Language: French
Target Pupil Group: S1
Start and Finish: January– April 2016 (Café Français) and Oct 2015 –
March 2016 (Cookery Club)

2. Relevance to CfE
capacities
These projects helped students to:
- Realise the importance of languages: it was interesting for
pupils to learn a new language because they could show
their families some new things and share them together;
- Become more confident: pupils saw that they could do a
lot with their level of French, and that they could do very
well with practice;
- Learn more about French culture: pupils discovered
aspects of France that they didn’t know about before, and
had fun doing so.

3. Quotes from
learners/teachers
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I have found my time at the French Cookery Club immensely enjoyable and have
recreated the dishes at home. I loved cooking with my classmates and having an
insight of what life must be like for people my age in France. Rich with both culture
and flavour, all of the dishes were very easy and fun to make. I especially loved
making crepes as I have always wanted to, but never been sure how to recreate the
delicious delicacy. Costing no more than £1.50 each week, the club was also very
affordable and I enjoyed walking away with freshly made food that I hadn’t paid a lot
of money for. The French Cookery Club has been amazing, I simply can’t express
how much I have enjoyed it and urge anyone with an interest in French culture,
delicious food, or fun socialising to attend.
Student
In her year here Agathe worked with S1 pupils in a French cooking club. Every
fortnight Agathe and a group of S1 pupils met and prepared some typical French
recipes including crêpes, croque-monsieur and pommes-au-four. Agathe looked at
the recipes in French with the pupils, they prepared the dishes and whilst they were
cooking Agathe showed some French animations on the theme of healthy eating.
Teacher

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Annie and Molly
with their
pommes au four
Alice
and
Edward
with
their
pommes
au four
Kieran and Anna with their croque-monsieur
The club (well, part of it)

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Half of the class before we get started The class during the colours song
Ronan waiting on tables Martin, aka “the French star”, and his table