Unit 1: Portraits - describing in French
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Unit 1: Portraits – describing in French
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Understand that adjectives change depending on whether they are describing a boy or girl, for example: sérieux and sérieuse.
- Identify a person correctly from a description of their hair and eye colour.
- Place word cards in the correct order, with the adjectives following the noun.
- Compose a spoken sentence to describe a friend.
- Write four sentences accurately with the correct adjectival agreement, helped by a support sheet.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 2: French adjectives of colour, size and shape
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Portraits – getting French adjectives to agree
- To begin to understand that adjectives change if they describe a feminine noun.
Lesson 2: Simple descriptions in French
- To understand a simple description of hair and eye colour.
Lesson 3: Describing people in French
- To create simple descriptive sentences.
Lesson 4: Describing personality traits in French
- To understand simple descriptive sentences.
Lesson 5: Writing portraits of friends in French
- To write descriptive sentences.
Key skills
Key knowledge
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Resources
Unit resources
French
Knowledge organiser: French – Y4 Portraits – describing in French
An engaging and digestible summary document for pupils, containing the key learning from this Year 4 Portraits - describing in…
Other
French phonics videos: Y4 Portraits – describing in French
Phoneme practice for sounds used in this unit.
French
Vocabulary display: Portraits – describing in French
A display version of the key vocabulary from the French greetings with puppets unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Art
‘Pupils should be taught:
- about great artists, architects and designers in history.’