The Angry Olympics with the Angry Family
This is a series of animated Powerpoint presentations with spoken French and text (with English translation) following the adventures of the Angry Family at the Olympics.
These resources were produced as part of the Linguacast project at Newcastle University’s Language Resource Centre. They are being provided free of charge for use in French teaching and learning (also available in German and Spanish).
Click here for an overview of the Linguacast project and an introduction to the Angry Family.
How to use the resources
The story is presented in different parts, each in an animated Powerpoint presentation and each exploring different parts of speech and vocabulary.
Click on the links below to download the individual Powerpoint presentations.
To play these with sound and animation, open the file in Powerpoint, click on ‘Slideshow’ in the menu and then select play ‘From beginning’.
More Angry Family resources
Meet the Angry Family and conversations, verbs, pronouns – An introduction to the family of characters and a range of conversations in 34 animated Powerpoint presentations with sound and translation, plus 27 presentations on verbs, pronouns, cases and talking about time.
Handy Vocabulary with the Angry Family – French vocabulary is presented on different themes, each in one of 60 animated Powerpoint presentations with sound and translation
The Angry Family buy tickets and travel to the Beijing Olympics – and lots of examples of the verb ‘can’/’to be able to’.
The Angry family debate different things, what they should and shouldn’t do and making decisions.
The Angry Family go to the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics and we find out all the things that are ‘going to’ happen.
Whilst practicing Archery, we learn about and practice words for different directions.
All the action is in the Olympic Pool with lots of swimming vocabulary and the use of ‘might’.
Still in the pool we find out how to use comparatives and superlatives with lots of vocabulary examples.
The commentator explores the range of emotions and feelings of winner Mrs Angry Carrot. Adjectives, phrases, vocabulary and grammar.
The Angry Family discuss what is happening when – past, present and future vocabulary around time and dates.
In a dream, Mr Angry Potato dreams of visiting all the different sports, recreation and facilities on offer across the Olympic Park.
A disputed race and lots of tension. This episode explores the different kinds of past tense and when they are used.
The winners of the race are announced and we learn about ordinal numbers, e.g. first, second, third.
As the Olympics draws to a close the story’s participants discuss what they ‘would like to do’, ‘would like to be’ and ‘would like to have’.
During a boxing match, we find out lots of expressions and sports phrases, as well as weights and descriptions.