In French, 'flamme' is a fire, and it is also love: 'déclarer sa flamme' is how you tell someone you love them.
An illustrated, black-and-white history of the word 'flamme', in 15 large cards with one idea on each. It prints two ways: as a deck to laminate, punch and put on a ring, or as a single sheet to print and use as it is.
'flamme' means 'flame'. It also covers passion and love, a long narrow flag, the Olympic flame, and the picture printed beside a postmark.
15 large cards telling the word's story in black-and-white pictures, one idea to a card, each with a short caption
Phrases such as 'en flammes', 'descendre en flammes' and 'tout feu tout flamme'
The word's history from Latin to modern French, with a date at each stage the records allow
A pronunciation card for every French word on the cards, and an IPA page
The English words that come from the same Latin root
A one-page summary sheet, a sources page and a short guide for the adult
Print the large cards, laminate them and clip them onto a ring for a deck to handle and shuffle back into order; a printer, a laminator and a ring are all you need, and you put it together yourself. Or print just the final page, which fits the whole story of the word on a single sheet with no laminating at all.
For personal use in home education and tutoring only.
Made first for my son, but it suits a wider range:
KS3 and KS4 learners of French, including those working towards GCSE
Specialist tuition students, including those with dyslexia or a weak working memory
Home-educated children learning a language alongside a parent
Anyone who enjoys where words come from
Adults coming back to French, or brushing up alongside a child
Duolingo users who want to know why the words look the way they do
The love sense of 'flamme' turns up in French songs and stories, and it puzzles a learner who knows only the fire. Seeing the word used for fire and for love from the start makes both senses ordinary.
I first made these for my dyslexic son.
More fire words in L'atelier des mots: 'enflammer', 'inflammable', 'flamber', 'flambé', 'flamboyer' and 'flambeau'.
Each of those comes from the same Latin family as 'flamme', so they work well as a set.
The same Latin word turns up in the other shops: 'Flamme' in Die Wortwerkbank, 'llama' in El Taller Raíz and 'fiamma' in L'Officina Radice. The free English word cards on 'inflammable', 'flamboyant' and 'flamingo' are in The Wordhord.
Available now as a PDF download.
In French, 'flamme' is a fire, and it is also love: 'déclarer sa flamme' is how you tell someone you love them.
An illustrated, black-and-white history of the word 'flamme', in 15 large cards with one idea on each. It prints two ways: as a deck to laminate, punch and put on a ring, or as a single sheet to print and use as it is.
'flamme' means 'flame'. It also covers passion and love, a long narrow flag, the Olympic flame, and the picture printed beside a postmark.
15 large cards telling the word's story in black-and-white pictures, one idea to a card, each with a short caption
Phrases such as 'en flammes', 'descendre en flammes' and 'tout feu tout flamme'
The word's history from Latin to modern French, with a date at each stage the records allow
A pronunciation card for every French word on the cards, and an IPA page
The English words that come from the same Latin root
A one-page summary sheet, a sources page and a short guide for the adult
Print the large cards, laminate them and clip them onto a ring for a deck to handle and shuffle back into order; a printer, a laminator and a ring are all you need, and you put it together yourself. Or print just the final page, which fits the whole story of the word on a single sheet with no laminating at all.
For personal use in home education and tutoring only.
Made first for my son, but it suits a wider range:
KS3 and KS4 learners of French, including those working towards GCSE
Specialist tuition students, including those with dyslexia or a weak working memory
Home-educated children learning a language alongside a parent
Anyone who enjoys where words come from
Adults coming back to French, or brushing up alongside a child
Duolingo users who want to know why the words look the way they do
The love sense of 'flamme' turns up in French songs and stories, and it puzzles a learner who knows only the fire. Seeing the word used for fire and for love from the start makes both senses ordinary.
I first made these for my dyslexic son.
More fire words in L'atelier des mots: 'enflammer', 'inflammable', 'flamber', 'flambé', 'flamboyer' and 'flambeau'.
Each of those comes from the same Latin family as 'flamme', so they work well as a set.
The same Latin word turns up in the other shops: 'Flamme' in Die Wortwerkbank, 'llama' in El Taller Raíz and 'fiamma' in L'Officina Radice. The free English word cards on 'inflammable', 'flamboyant' and 'flamingo' are in The Wordhord.
Available now as a PDF download.
