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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 5: Writing portraits of friends in French

Writing descriptive sentences in French about a friend, referring to hair and eye colour, height and a personality trait. Reinforcing learning and skills from the unit, in particular sentence structure and adjectival agreement by playing a human sentence game.

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Learning objective

To write descriptive sentences.

Success criteria

I can write simple sentences to describe my

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National curriculum

Languages

Pupils should be taught to:

Describe

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Working in table groups, ask the children to come up with a sentence to describe each person in their group using the following structure: Il/Elle a les cheveux […] et les yeux […]. et il est poli. Il/Elle s’appelle […]. After you have given the children some time to work out their sentences, select…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could work in a group with an adult as a scribe, using the scaffold and the unit Knowledge organiser for support (see Knowledge organiser: French – Y4 Portraits – describing in French).

Pupils working at greater depth

Could be challenged to focus on writing their character description without the scaffold’s support; could self-assess against the scaffold and unit Knowledge organiser (see Knowledge organiser: French – Y4 Portraits – describing in French), and correct any errors. Some may wish to present their description to the class.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: writing four sentences accurately with the

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Vocabulary and translations

qui ?

who?
il est...

he/it is…

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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:

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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