Y5/6 Lesson 5 (Cycle A): Writing portraits of friends in French

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Subjects

RSE & PSHE Art and design Design and technology French Geography History Computing Music Spanish Religion and worldviews Physical education Science Wellbeing

Applying learning from the unit to write descriptive sentences about friends in French, referring to hair and eye colour, height and a personality trait.

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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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Cross-curricular links

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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 […]. Il/Elle est [characteristic]. Il/Elle s’appelle […]. He/She has […] hair and […] eyes. He/She is [characteristic]. He/She is called […]. For the…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support:

Could work in a group with an adult as a scribe; should use the scaffold provided to aid with sentence building and vocabulary selection.

Pupils working at greater depth:

Should be challenged to focus on writing their character description without the support of the scaffold; could self-assess against the scaffold and correct any errors; could present their description to the class.

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