The document provides the objectives of a French lesson on expressing opinions about celebrities. By the end of the lesson, all students will be able to give positive and negative opinions on celebrities. Most students will be able to use intensifiers and connectives when expressing their opinions. Some students will be able to provide more detailed descriptions of celebrities.

1. mardi 23 octobre
Les célébrités
et les opinions
L’objectif: To learn vocabulary for giving
opinions about celebrities.
Mademoiselle Morgan

2. By the end of the lesson…
all students will be able to give a positive and
negative opinion about a celebrity.
most students will be able to use various intensifiers
and connectives.
some students will be able to give a more detailed
description of a celebrity.

3. Pour commencer…
Quel est le mot anglais pour…?
1. méchant/e nasty
2. beau/belle intelligent
handsome/beautiful
3. talentueux/euse crazy
talented
funny
4. intelligent/e intelligent
kind
5. il/elle m’énerve he/she gets on my nerves
sporty
6. fou/folle he/she gets on my nerves
crazy
7. égocentrique handsome/beautiful
egocentric
nasty
8. sportif/ive sporty
talented
9. drôle funny
egocentric
10. gentil/ille kind
Vous avez trois minutes

4. méchant/e beau/belle intelligent/e drôle
mean handsome/pretty intelligent funny
sportif/ive talentueux/euse gentil/lle
sporty talented kind

5. fou/folle égocentrique
crazy egocentric
Il/elle m’énerve
He/she gets on my nerves

6. Écouter
J’aime__________ joueur de football Il m’énerve
J’adore__________ chanteuse talentueuse
J’aime___________ acteur drôle
Je déteste ________ athlète égocentrique
Je n’aime pas ________ présentateur de télé sportif
1. Je n’aime pas la chanteuse Shakira parce qu’elle est trop
égocentrique mais je pense qu’elle est belle.
2. J’adore Jessica Ennis. Elle est une athlète vraiment talentueuse.
3. J’aime Keith Lemon. À mon avis il est un présentateur de télé très
drôle.
4. Je déteste David Hasselhoff. Il m’énerve.
5. J’aime le joueur de football, Messi car il est sportif.

7. J’adore
J’aime
Je n’aime pas
Je déteste

8. Pourquoi?
parce qu’il est…
parce qu’elle est…

9. Tu aimes…?

10. Écrire
Write about a paragraph about 2 celebrities
(one positive and one negative).
Try to include the following:
 What do they do? – actor, singer, dancer, footballer, athlete
 What is your opinion of them and why?
 Intensifiers: very, really
 Connectives: but, however
 A variety of vocabulary
 Extra details – Where do they live? Are they married? Do they have
children? What do they look like?
If you need to you may use the support sheet and a French dictionary.
Vous avez 10 minutes.
Extension: Reading worksheet -Vrai/faux

11. Peer Assessment
Swap books with your partner. Read through their work.
Underneath write 2 things they have done well and one thing they
could improve on.
Things to think about:
 Have they spelt everything correctly?
 Have they remembered all of the accents? méchant, il m’énerve
 Have they used the correct adjective endings? Elle est méchante.
 Have they included an opinion and reason why? Je l’adore parce qu’il est beau..
 Have they included a variety of connectives? mais, cependant
 Have they included a variety of intensifiers? …il est vraiment égocentrique.
 Have they included any extra bits of information? Is it detailed enough?
Il a deux enfants. Il habite aux États-Unis. Il a 25 ans.

12. Plenary
Pass the ‘parcel’ around the room.
When the music stops, pick out a
card, read it out and translate or
complete the sentence.

13. By the end of the lesson…
all students will be able to give a positive and
negative opinion about a celebrity.
most students will be able to use various intensifiers
and connectives.
some students will be able to give a more detailed
description of a celebrity.