Salut La France!
An assembly prepared and presented by Primary
6
Salut La France!
• France is in Europe • To the North is the
• France has borders English Channel (La
with Spain, Italy, Manche)
Switzerland, • To the South is the
Germany, Luxemburg Mediterranean Sea
and Belgium. • To the West is the
• It is shaped like a Atlantic Ocean
hexagon
France
• The Capital of France is • The Pyrenees Mountains are
Paris, in the North of France on the border with Spain.
• The population is 57 million • The Alps Mountains border
Italy and Switzerland.
• The river Seine runs
• Mont Blanc is the highest
through Paris and flows into mountain in the Alps, and in
the English Channel Europe.
• The river Loire is the • Mont Blanc is 4807 metres
longest river in France. It high.
flows into the Atlantic • There are many countries
Ocean around the world whose local
• The river Rhone starts in language is French.
the Alps and flows into the
Mediterranean Sea.
Paris
Famous landmarks:
• Paris is divided into 20 • The Eiffel Tower, built in 1889
districts • The Eiffel tower is made of iron
(arondissements) and is 300 metres high
• The population of Paris • It has 1665 stairs – phew!
is 9,318,831 • Notre Dame Cathedral
• The oldest part of Paris • It was built in the 12th-13th
is the Ile de la Cité, first century and made famous in
built by the Romans the tale of The Hunchback of
• Paris has 110 cinemas Notre Dame
and nearly 76,000 hotel • The Arc de Triomphe at the top
rooms!!! of the Champs Elysées
Food and Drink
• France is famous for their cheese and wine.
• The French produce over 365 different cheeses
– one for every day of the year!
• French people eat bread with almost
every meal.
• A typical breakfast is coffee or hot chocolate in a
bowl, bread and jam or croissants.
• A French delicacy is snails in parsley and garlic
butter. Mmmmm! They also eat frogs’ legs and
some people eat horse meat.
Wine
• There are 3 main types of wine – white, rosé and red
wine.
• Most of the wine growing areas are in the south of
France, where the weather is warmer to ripen the
grapes.
• When the grapes are harvested, many areas have wine
festivals – over 50 each year!
• In the old days they trampled the grapes with their bare
feet to extract the juice. Now machines do the pressing.
The grape juice is fermented to make wine.
• Wines from different areas have different flavours.
• There are 17 wine growing regions in France.
Sport
• The French Open tennis
is played on red blaise at
• Most children in the Roland Garros outside
mountain regions learn to Paris.
ski at the age of 3. • The French National
• The Tour de France is a team play in the Stade de
famous cycle race that France.
takes place in the first 3 • Some French football
weeks of July. teams play in the Europa
• Almost every town and League – Marseille, Paris
village has a place where St Germain, Bordeaux,
people can gather Lyon and Lille
together to play “Boules”.
Perfume and Fashion
• Lavender is grown for the perfume industry in
the Rhone-Alpes region.
• Traditional perfume manufacture goes back for
hundreds of years.
• The essential oils are extracted from flowers,
mixed and diluted with alcohol.
• Chanel, founded by Coco Chanel, produce fine
perfumes and luxury clothes.
• Paris is the centre for French fashion. There is a
huge fashion show there every year – Paris
Fashion Week.
The French Flag – Le Tricouleur
The French flag came together after the
revolution – the common people had a red
flag and the royal flag was blue.
The bleu, blanc, rouge bring the common
people and the royalists together in peace.
The new flag came about when France
became a republic and overthrew the royal
family.
La Marseillaise
In 1789 the French royal family were
very rich and the citizens were poor
and hungry. They rose up against the
royal family. The national anthem tells
the story of the revolution.
Listen to us sing it for you. We think
you might recognise the tune.