FTFS        Le Porte-Bonheur  (Junior Cycle)

Tips  for  Teachers

The following topics  are covered in Le Porte-Bonheur and it might be useful to revise them beforehand.

Colours   -    bleu, vert, jaune, noir, blanc, rouge

School subjects – la geographie, l’histoire, les mathématiques

Directions – à gauche, à droite, la main gauche, la main droite

Countries of Europe     and also   les Etats-Unis   and   Australie

Telling the time

Numbers and prices  including  €500,€300,€200,€100,€50,€40,€10,€5,€1

Parts of the body , including le dos, les épaules, le menton,

Shopping    -     je peux vous aider ?

C’est combien ?

Acheter

Trop cher !

The following key words are essential to an understanding of the play –

Un porte-bonheur, souhaiter, un souhait, un cadeau, une montre, une montre en or .

Preparation

Download and photocopy the résumé and lexique for each student and go through it with them in class, emphasizing the sound of words as well as the meaning.  Download the parts for students and also go through them as a class activity before allocating the parts to particular students.  (Students do not have to learn the parts off by heart.  They can bring the script on stage with them.  The French actors will rehearse with them beforehand and tell them exactly what to do.)