Odd one out

Think about which could be the odd one out of these sets of food words. Write it down & say why you
chose that one.

Des raisins

Des cerises

Une banane

Des fraises

Des frites

Du fromage

De la salade

Du pain

Des crales

Un croissant

Du chocolat

Des fruits

Une carotte

Des petits pois

Une pomme

Un chou

Learning Objectives.
To develop problem solving and team work skills.
To learn the words for different foods in French.

Le mystre de la
famille Girard
Quest ce quils ont mang?
(what did they eat?)

This is the Girard family

Monsieur
Girard
Madame
Girard
Julie
Girard
Jean-Paul
Girard

Jacques
Girard

They might look nice,

but actually theyre on the
run from the police after
they robbed a bank

Last night, the Girard family

ate at the Deux Moulins
restaurant.

This morning, they

were all found dead!
Were they poisoned????

Youre going to do some detective work.

Youll get:
-a menu for the restaurant
- some information about what the
Girard family liked to eat and drink

Your job is to use the clues to work

out what they all ate and drank.

If they were poisoned, then

there must have been something
that all of them had.
What was it??

Group Jobs.
1 = In charge of looking up key words in
Dictionary.

2 = In charge of writing down any new

vocab looked up in the dictionary.

3 = In charge of making notes on what

you work out and decide.

( 4

= Extra Dictionary

Discuss
What did you decide they all ate and drank? Why?
Starter?
Main course?
Dessert?
Drink?
How did you start the task?
What skills did you use to work it out?
Was there any information that you didnt need?

Le rapport de police
Write a report in French to add to the Girard file,
explaining your conclusions about what they ate & drank.
selon notre enqute according to our enquiries
nous croyons que we believe that
nous pensons que we think that
il parat que it appears that
_____ a mang - _____ ate
_____ a bu - _____ drank
_____ a choisi - ______ chose
comme entre/plat principal as a starter/main course
en conclusion in conclusion
________ a t empoisonn par - ______ was poisoned by