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Can any French teachers help me with vocab please?

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Seaweasel · 15/04/2023 11:29

Hello, am planning next Year 6 French topic - standard vocab on 'Where we live' except this year, I have many pupils of GRT heritage living on local sites or in more permanent park homes. I want to adapt our resources but I don't know the correct vocabulary. The standard options are house or apartment, so what do I need to add please to include these two options? Google offers 'maison de parc'? I am wary and would like to know what an actual person would say. Thank you!

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puttingontheritz · 15/04/2023 20:09

Seaweasel · 15/04/2023 11:29

Hello, am planning next Year 6 French topic - standard vocab on 'Where we live' except this year, I have many pupils of GRT heritage living on local sites or in more permanent park homes. I want to adapt our resources but I don't know the correct vocabulary. The standard options are house or apartment, so what do I need to add please to include these two options? Google offers 'maison de parc'? I am wary and would like to know what an actual person would say. Thank you!

Not maison de parc that doesn't mean anything. What is GRT, I googled, and I'm getting links to gas? Do you mean travellers? Are you looking for the word for static caravan? In which case it is, disappointingly, un mobile home don't pronounce the h. It's like mo-beal-ome. Otherwise une caravane. Or did you mean the name for a site, in which case, when it is specifically a site for travellers, of which there are many, it is un aire d'accueil des gens du voyage or if it is a regular campsite it's just a camping.

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Seaweasel · 15/04/2023 21:16

Thank you, that's really useful. Sorry, I meant Gypsy, Romany and/or Traveller - I thought it was standard abbreviation but clearly not. My students use the term 'park home' if they are more settled on a site in a static caravan - that is what I meant but I couldn't think of the other name for them - but they say a trailer if they are somewhere temporary, which I guess would translate as caravan. So we thank you for answering my vague and badly-worded question!

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Seaweasel · 15/04/2023 21:17

We thank you? No, it's just me. That's a typo. It's been a long day.

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puttingontheritz · 16/04/2023 16:00

No, I'm sure it's just me, I don't know that term, I know you posted in the the staffroom, but I just answered as a French person!

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Seaweasel · 16/04/2023 20:44

Really helpful though, thanks.

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BoattoBolivia · 20/04/2023 09:34

If you need more help planning primary French, have you seen LiPS? It's a group on Facebook with over 8000 primary school language teachers- full name is Languages in Primary Schools. The most amazing support group. Can't help you with your op as I don't teach French but someone on LiPS might be able to.

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