An authentic French resource …
Build a model of the Eiffel Tower using a box of Camembert!
Buy a box of camembert cheese. Only the empty box is needed for this resource.
Don’t just buy it, smell it, taste it – with some baguette! Camembert comes from Normandy. Where is that in France? Look it up!
This French Activity includes:
– Video Clip in French (French and English subtitles)
– Questions + Vocabulary
Study the images and listen to the subtitled questions and instructions to learn how to make a model of the Eiffel Tower using a piece of cardboard, lollipop sticks, toothpicks, glue, an elastic band, and an empty box of camembert:
Questions:
Qu’est-ce que c’est? What is it?
Qu’est-ce que tu as? What have you got?
Que fais-tu? What are you doing?
Vocabulary
+ un, une = a, an:
un modèle(m) = a model
une bande élastique(f) = an elastic band
Vocabulary + du, de la, des
Some/any:
du camembert(m) some camembert
du carton(m) some cardboard
de la colle(f) some glue
des bâtons(mpl) some sticks
des piques en bois(fpl) some toothpicks
la boîte de camembert: the box of camembert
Note: The hardest part is pushing the sticks through the empty box. Have sticky tape to hand if things start to go wrong – Very helpful if you are short of time!
INSTRUCTIONS: Watch, listen and join in with the video clip.
