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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 3: Describing people in French

Writing descriptions of portraits drawn by fellow pupils, applying vocabulary knowledge from the previous lesson and taking care that adjectives agree in gender and number with the nouns they describe.

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Learning objective

To create simple descriptive sentences.

Success criteria

I can create a sentence, using word cards,

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Cross-curricular links

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Play a game of Jacques a dit – the equivalent of the English game, Simon says. The children sit in a circle on the floor and you give instructions, for example: Jacques a dit, ‘Levez-vous si vous avez les cheveux blonds.’ – Jacques said, ‘Stand up if you have blond hair.’ Those children with…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could work in small adult-supported groups with a reduced amount of vocabulary, describing hair or eyes (not both) or using fewer colours. They focus on describing verbally before writing when more confident.

Pupils working at greater depth

Once they have constructed their sentence with the word cards, challenge them to write sentences using multiple colours from memory, ensuring the adjectives agree.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: placing the word cards in the

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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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