Learning objective
- To use knowledge about language to solve a science-based puzzle.
Success criteria
- I can look for patterns in language and
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National curriculum
Languages
Pupils should be taught to:
- Understand
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Cross-curricular links
Science
Pupils should be taught to:
- Explore
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Recap and recall
This lesson is about language detective skills. The children looked at strategies for working out new vocabulary in French transport, Lesson 1: French transport language detectives and will be using all the strategies in this lesson. Ask the class to list strategies they might use. If you have these strategies listed and displayed in the…
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support:
Could discuss the pictures from the plant life cycle cards to establish and label keywords in English first: seed, stem, leaf, flower, insect, fruit. Look together at the captions to spot or match the Dutch nouns, using cognates and near cognates first, for example, stam and insecten.
Pupils working at greater depth:
Could fill in the blanks on the captions, discuss their strategies together and in a group see if they can make comparisons between the two languages (e.g. phrases take the form article-noun-verb)
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: recognising key vocabulary and structure clues,
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No vocabulary in this lesson
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In this unit
Assessment - French: Y3: Circle of Life
Lesson 1: French animal nouns and sounds
Lesson 2: French habitats
Lesson 3: Life cycle French detectives
Lesson 4: French food chains
Lesson 5: French food chain flips
Maintained by: Kapow Primary team
Last update: 1st May, 2024
