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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 3: Describing my French family

Using written clues to piece together information to identify family members. Learning to build descriptive sentences into a short paragraph.

Learning objective

To be able to build descriptive sentences into a short paragraph.

Success criteria

I can choose words to build and change

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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 small groups and challenge each child in the group to come up with a sentence to describe the relationship of a person to them using the following model: La sœur de ma mère, c’est ma tante. – The sister of my mother is my aunt. The other children in the…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Should work in small supported groups using the first page from the Resource: Family album, to read the sentences introducing each family member and then to add the names to the album photo.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should unscramble the jumbled sentences to build and write a description of each family member then work out who they are on the photo.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: being able to recognise key information

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Vocabulary and translations

il a

he has
elle a

she has

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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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