Y5/6 (B): Unit 5: Visiting a town in France
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Name places in a town.
- Follow simple directions accurately.
- Describe the relationship between places using a preposition.
- Role-play buying tickets in French.
- Construct negative sentences correctly.
- Use a writing frame to give a reasoned opinion for visiting a place.
- Identify the grammatical elements of a text.
- Understand the gist of a text.
- Use a text to write their own description of a place.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 6: Meet my French family
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Y5/6 (B): Lesson 1: Welcome to my town
- To use prepositional phrases to describe the location of places in a town.
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 2: Directions to places in a French town
- To use and respond to instructional language and directional vocabulary.
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 3: Let’s travel!
- To describe holiday plans using the near future tense.
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 4: Sightseeing in a French town
- To give opinions on places in a town using a range of verbs and adjectives.
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 5: French tourism
- To write a short description of a French town using key grammatical features.
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Unit resources

French
Vocabulary display: Visiting a town in France (Cycle B)
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Visiting a town in France (Cycle B) unit.

French
Knowledge organiser: French Y5/6 Visiting a town in France
Aimed at pupils, a single page document that gives key facts and definitions from the Visiting a French town unit.
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