This week a group of 28 children from Key Stage 2 Bannockburn visited The Barbican Centre in London as part of a the IntoFilm Festival 2016. They watched a film called 'Gus, petit oiseau, grand voyage' and it was spoken entirely in French - although there were some subtitles to help! After having watched the film, the children furthered their learning by completing a French treasure hunt on their journey home.
After the children commented on how similar some French words can be to English like 'cinéma' 'famille' and 'policier' - these are examples of cognates, words in foreign languages that resemble their English translations, so we can often guess the meaning. However, the children also met some "false friends" over the course of the day. These are words that we can try and guess but they actually mean something different, like 'magasin' which, as the children discovered, in fact means 'shop' and not 'magazine!'
