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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

Y3/4 (B): Lesson 5: School life

Exchanging information about aspects of the school day using familiar language and grammar structures.

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Learning objective

To adapt phrases to build new sentences.

Success criteria

I can understand information about school in French.
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Cross-curricular links

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Revision of classroom objects and days. Display slide 1 of the Presentation: At school and hand out a whiteboard and pen to each child. Give the children two minutes to translate the French words for objects into English, writing these on their whiteboards. Click to reveal the answers.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support:

Could complete the Activity: Pupil profile: support version which is a gapped version of the model text shown on slide 7; should use the Knowledge organiser to support in all tasks.

Pupils working at greater depth:

Could recall the name in French of objects not shown in the recap and recall activity; could embed previously learned language to provide further detail; could source new language using a bilingual dictionary.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding are indicated by: using modelled language to create

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Vocabulary and translations

il y a

there is/are
il n'y a pas de/d'

there is/are not any

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In this unit

Assessment - French Y3/4 (B): School days

Y3/4 (B): Lesson 1: Days of the week

Y3/4 (B): Lesson 2: A French Maths lesson

Y3/4 (B): Lesson 3: A French school timetable

Y3/4 (B): Lesson 4: What is in your classroom?

Y3/4 (B): Lesson 5: School life

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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