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Subjects

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

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

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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Pupils should be taught to:

Describe

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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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