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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 2: Simple descriptions in French

Learning that an adjective changes not only according to the gender of the noun it describes, but also depending on whether the noun is singular or plural. Consolidating learning by describing hair and eye colour.

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Learning objective

To understand a simple description of hair and eye colour.

Success criteria

I can recognise a picture of someone from

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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

Display the Presentation: Who is it? Talking in pairs, ask the children to take turns to choose and describe one of the pictures for their partner to guess, saying in French whether he or she is happy or serious.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could identify the correct portrait through the use of actions by the teacher (for example, pointing to hair for les cheveux or the colour black for noirs).

Pupils working at greater depth

Could be challenged to describe a picture independently, ensuring that they use the correct adjectival agreement, for example, les yeux bleus – blue eyes.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: identifying a person correctly from a

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Vocabulary and translations

il a

he has
elle a

she has

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In this unit

Assessment - French Y4: Portraits

Lesson 1: Portraits – getting French adjectives to agree

Lesson 2: Simple descriptions in French

Lesson 3: Describing people in French

Lesson 4: Describing personality traits in French

Lesson 5: Writing portraits of friends in French

Originally created by:

Simone Haughey

French specialist

Previously a generalist Primary teacher for 12 years, Simone now specialises in Languages. She is MFL Consultant and Languages Teacher at Robin Hood Primary. Her work with Mandarin Chinese resulted in the IoE Confucius Institute for Schools awarding her school with Confucius Classroom…

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