2. C’est quoi la circonlocution?
Use many words to describe something
instead of just naming it.
When might you want to use this?
3. Comment le faire? (vocabulaire nécessaire)
Donnez une catégorie: C’est (un/une animal/personne/objet)
Donnez un synonyme: Ça ressemble à ...
C’est (couleur / taille)
Donnez un antonyme: Ce n’est pas …
Donnez un exemple ou une description:
On l’(les) utilise pour … On le/la/les
trouve ...
Il/Elle est …
Il/Elle a …
4. A vous … comment pouvez-vous
décrire cette personne sans
donner son nom?
I do this with the whole class, asking kids to give their descriptions without naming the person.
I do this one as a whole class as well, all students can see the object and provide clues.
At this point, I put a chair in the middle of the classroom with their back toward the screen so they can’t see the object projected. I ask students to provide the clues, synonym, antonym, description, example, etc. while the person in the chair has to guess the object being described. We do the rest of the slide presentation as a whole class, bringing a new person up to guess to object with each new slide. After we’ve done all of the slides as a whole class, I ask the students to work with a partner and do circumlocution descriptions of the pictures on the hand out.