Learning objective
- To describe shapes by their size and colour
National curriculum
Languages
Pupils should be taught to:
- Present ideas and information orally.
- Use basic language structures.
- Begin to understand basic grammar (placement of adjectives).
Success criteria
Cross-curricular links
Before the lesson
Download classroom resources
Teacher knowledge - language points
Attention grabber
Main event
Wrapping up
During the week
- Continue practising your greetings and feelings vocabulary from ‘French, Year 3, French greetings with puppets’ as you take the register at each end of the day.
- Go outdoors! Take water and brushes or chalk out to the playground and call out different shapes for the children to draw, or get them to make human shapes by holding hands in groups.
- Make your Maths or Early Morning Starter a French shape challenge.
- Use the Presentation: Les formes for a fast finger or true/false game board.
- Separate and label the tangram pieces for an interactive display on your Maths board.
Assessing pupils' progress and understanding
Vocabulary
In this topic
- Assessment - French Y3/4 (A): French adjectives of colour, size and shape
- Y3/4 (A): Lesson 1: Colours in French
- Y3/4 (A): Lesson 2: Sizes and shapes in French
- Y3/4 (A): Lesson 3: Using shapes like the French artist, Matisse
- Y3/4 (A): Lesson 4: In the style of the French artist, Matisse
- Y3/4 (A): Lesson 5: Inspired by Matisse's French 'Christmas Night' window