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Art and design Computing Design and technology French Geography History Music Physical education Spanish Religion and worldviews RSE & PSHE Science Wellbeing

Lesson 4: School bag French detectives

Focusing on the written word, pupils read descriptions of school bag items, matching them to the correct images and noting the plural form of the nouns. Designing and writing sentences about the contents of an imagined school bag, using the appropriate article and plural noun endings.

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Learning objective

To read and understand short sentences.

Success criteria

I can read short sentences and match them

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National curriculum

Languages

Pupils should be taught to:

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Cross-curricular links

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

This exercise is to remind the children about numbers 1-10. Numéro secret – secret number The teacher thinks of a number between 1-12 and the children have to guess what the number is. The teacher says: J’ai un numéro secret entre un et douze. C’est quel numéro ? – I’ve got [I’m thinking of] a…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could use picture cards from the last lesson or the labelled pictures from the jumbled words activity as support. Encourage them to decide which item words might belong with each bag before looking together to try and find the correct label.

Pupils working at greater depth

Could be challenged to write a longer content list, appropriately punctuated and with connective et – and, and think about including plurals, adjectives of size, and/or colour.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: their ability to match labels to

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Vocabulary and translations

un crayon

a pencil
un taille-crayon

a pencil sharpener

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In this unit

Assessment - French Y3: In a French classroom

Lesson 1: Follow the French teacher

Lesson 2: Pencils and things in the French classroom

Lesson 3: To have or have not in the French classroom

Lesson 4: School bag French detectives

Lesson 5: In my French bag

Originally created by:

Belinda Dean

French specialist

Belinda has been a French and Spanish teacher based in Bath for more than 15 years. She has delivered a range of courses for teachers and PGCE students and is particularly passionate about weaving language, culture and global learning across the curriculum. Having…

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