Learning objective
- To add colour adjectives, adapting the suffix in accordance with gender
National curriculum
Languages
Pupils should be taught to:
- Broaden their vocabulary and develop their ability to understand new words that are introduced into familiar written material.
- Write phrases from memory, and adapt these to create new sentences, to express ideas clearly.
Success criteria
Cross-curricular links
Before the lesson
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Teacher knowledge - language points
Attention grabber
Main event
Differentiation
Pupils needing extra support: can work in small groups with the teacher to have support reading the phrases before selecting the right item of clothing. They can then repeat the phrase back to the teacher to practise the correct pronunciation, highlighting the adjectival agreement of the noun.
Pupils working at greater depth: challenge the children to use page 2 of the Activity Sheet : Coloriez les vêtements, colouring the clothing as they choose and writing the phrase to match, ensuring the adjective agrees with the noun – e.g une chemise verte – a green shirt.
Wrapping up
During the week
- Play La Tour Eiffel again either as a class or in small groups.
- Play Dans ma valise
- Play the Spelling die game in pairs:
- Each child has a piece of paper with numbers 1-6 written on it and they write an item of clothing, in English, next to each number;
- The children take it in turns to roll a die, and whatever number comes up indicates the word on that child’s list that they must try and spell from memory in French;
- The partner checks the spelling, using a dictionary if necessary, and if correctly spelt, the word is crossed off the list;
- It is then the other child’s turn;
- Rolling a number that has already been rolled where the spelling was correct means the child misses a go;
- The winner is the first player to cross off all their words.
Assessing pupils' progress and understanding
Vocabulary
In this topic
- Assessment - French Y5/6 (A): Clothes - getting dressed in France
- Y5/6 (A): Lesson 1: Clothes in French
- Y5/6 (A): Lesson 2: Clothes and colours in French
- Y5/6 (A): Lesson 3: Where do adjectives go in French?
- Y5/6 (A): Lesson 4: A French clothes catalogue
- Y5/6 (A): Lesson 5: What is our French model wearing?