Unit 4: French-speaking world
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Unit 4: French-speaking world
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
- To recognise, read and respond to directional language.
Lesson 2: Where in the world is French spoken?
- To read and give directions in French
Lesson 3: Treasures of the French-speaking world
- To identify features of countries in the French-speaking world.
Lesson 4: Investigating climate in the French-speaking world
- To investigate climate data from the French-speaking world using authentic materials.
Lesson 5: French globetrotters
- To ask and answer questions about different countries in the French-speaking world.
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Resources
Unit resources
Other
French phonics videos: Y5 French speaking world
Phoneme practice for sounds used in this unit.
French
Vocabulary display: French speaking world
A display version of the key vocabulary from the French speaking world unit.
French
Knowledge organiser: Y5 French-speaking world
Aimed at pupils, a single page that gives key facts and definitions from the unit.
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.