Amber's Language, Music and Play

Amber's Language, Music and Play Magical and musical French classes for children, using signed singing and sensory play. Based in Bedworth, Warwickshire, UK.

Amber's Language Music and Play is an established system for teaching French to children, which is informal, musical and fun, while rooted in research into language acquisition and delivered by a qualified teacher.

Joyeux Noël à tous ! Merry Christmas everyone!
24/12/2021

Joyeux Noël à tous ! Merry Christmas everyone!

02/10/2021

Classes update: Thank you for being involved in what I do. I really appreciate it! I need to let you know that sadly, I won't be able to run my classes in November 'La famille - Part 2' due to changes in personal circumstances.

For those who know me personally: we are all ok, but it has become a challenge for me to continue to teach at least in the short term.

After my current set of classes finishes I'll be temporarily closing my page to give me a break, but before I'll do, I'll post some information on how to stay in touch if you would like to.

I will keep my Facebook group open for those of you who would like to access the previous classes I ran through lockdown, and when I get chance I'll tidy it up a little to make it easier to find classes by topic.

Thank you again for sticking with me, bearing with me, and learning French with me!

Amber Semple

30/09/2021

Today's Fun French Thursday will be our last one ever. Join us over in the Children's French Classes Group .

Favourite video still of the day. Why oh why am I always pulling this face? 😁
29/09/2021

Favourite video still of the day. Why oh why am I always pulling this face? 😁

Making things is a key element to helping learn language: for me, for my own children, and for the children I work with....
27/09/2021

Making things is a key element to helping learn language: for me, for my own children, and for the children I work with. I'll be making a mini banjo out of these materials in my pre-recorded class this week. We'll be pretending that we are trying to wake up Frère Jacques from his sleep. Let me know if you'd like to join us. You'd be very welcome!

23/09/2021

Zoom classes today cancelled. Please check your messages for details. Thank you.

22/09/2021

As many of you know, I home educate my two youngest children. One of our activities is to study a nature curriculum, called Exploring Nature with Children (Raising Little Shoots Nature Study), and today's activity was to look for signs of autumn. I thought you might enjoy having a go at doing a similar activity at home, so here are some of the things that we looked for or listened for:

- le bruit du vent (the sound of the wind)
- une grappe de baies (a cluster of berries)
- quelque chose de doux (something soft)
- des oiseaux migrateurs (migrating birds)
- une petite bête (a bug)
- une feuille dorée (a gold coloured leaf)
- une feuille rouge (a red leaf)
- une toile d'araignée (a spider's web)
- quelque chose d'humide (something wet)
- une aiguille de pin (a pine needle*)

I have found that nature walks are a fantastic way to introduce language to children because you often see the same thing more than once so that they learn the words through repetition. My 4 year-old's favourite word at the moment is 'libellule' (dragonfly).

There isn't any need to know lots of French words in advance. I only knew the names of a few insects, plants etc. until recently, and I take my phone with me and look up the ones I don't know. The repetition works for us as adults too!!!

Happy searching!

* I actually asked my children to find 'une feuille d'un sapin ou d'un pin', which means 'a leaf from a fir tree or a pine tree', so that they weren't pre-warned to look for a pine needle, and realised that the leaves were different.

So, so, so true 😂
16/09/2021

So, so, so true 😂

13/09/2021

This Thursday we are back to our Fun French Thursdays at 10 a.m. and we will be learning about Family this week.

I'll be using a mum and dad puppet, and a baby doll, so if you have these items, please come along with them - but no worries if you haven't - you can join in without them. Head over to Children's French Classes Group to join us this Thursday live.

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Hinckley
CV129HR

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+442475010568

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