Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Recognise and respond to directions.
- Form directional phrases of their own.
- Read and understand a range of sentences including directions.
- Form full sentences to ask and answer questions as modelled orally.
- Show some understanding of national identity.
- Understand a set of true/false statements and know where to locate the information about these statements in a graph/table.
- Use prompts to ask and answer necessary questions to complete information on a passport, seeking clarification if needed.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 4: French weather and the water cycle
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Directions in French
Lesson 2: Where in the world is French spoken?
Lesson 3: Treasures of the French-speaking world
Lesson 4: Investigating climate in the French-speaking world
Lesson 5: French globetrotters
Key skills
Language comprehension
- Listening
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Key knowledge
Phonics
- To apply
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Key vocabulary
au nord
au sud
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Unit resources
Assessment – French Y5: French-speaking world
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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French phonics videos: Y5 French speaking world
Phoneme practice for sounds used in
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Unit vocabulary
Knowledge organiser
Aimed at pupils, a single page
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Subject resources
French: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching French
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National curriculum mapping
This National curriculum mapping document shows
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French: Pupil progression of skills
Progression documents showing how skills and
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Curriculum planning | Knowledge and skills progression
The key skills and knowledge covered
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Equipment list
A list of suggested resources for
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Condensed | Assessment
An assessment spreadsheet for French including
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Geography
Locational knowledge
Pupils should be taught to:
- Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe […] and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities
- Use the eight points of a compass […] to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world.
See 'National curriculum - Geography key stages 1 and 2'.
Mathematics
Statistics
Pupils should be taught to:
- Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph.
- Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables.