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

Lesson 1: My French brothers and sisters

Using language detective skills to match pictures and text to identify the words for brother and sister, and then matching pictures and writing short descriptive phrases to go with the pictures. Completing a gap-fill exercise, to explain the numbers of brothers and sisters.

Learning objective

To recognise and use phrases to say if I have a brother or sister.

Success criteria

I can match a phrase or sentence to

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National curriculum

Languages

Pupils should be taught to:

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Cross-curricular links

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Organise the children into pairs or table groups and give them the following quick exercises: List all the language detective skills you can think of. Conjugate the verb avoir – to have. Conjugate the verb être – to be. Explain how you make a verb negative. Say, ‘I have’ and ‘I do not have’ in…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Can either have a printed copy of the matching cards uncut, or keep their matched cards on the table to use as a support for writing. The unit Knowledge Organiser will also be a useful support resource (see Knowledge Organiser: French -Y5 – Meet my French family.

Pupils working at greater depth

Can move on to the second sheet of the Activity: Siblings, which is a gap-fill task that focuses on the phrase structure. Challenge any fast-finishers to begin to write their own sentence and draw a matching picture about a real, imagined, fictional or historical family.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: correctly completing the gaps to match

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Vocabulary and translations

une sœur

a sister
un frère

a brother

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In this unit

Assessment - French Y5: Meet my French family

Lesson 1: My French brothers and sisters

Lesson 2: A French family tree

Lesson 3: Describing my French family

Lesson 4: What my French family likes

Lesson 5: My extraordinary French family

Originally created by:

Belinda Dean

French specialist

Belinda has been a French and Spanish teacher based in Bath for more than 15 years. She has delivered a range of courses for teachers and PGCE students and is particularly passionate about weaving language, culture and global learning across the curriculum. Having…

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