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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: French - action!

Identifying the infinitive form of action verbs in French and recognising that there are three categories of endings for French infinitives. Practising bilingual dictionary skills and building simple sentences using, 'I like' and an infinitive.

Learning objective

To recognise that verbs take different forms and to find infinitive verbs in a dictionary.

Success criteria

I can identify a verb in the infinitive

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National curriculum

Languages

Pupils should be taught to:

Broaden

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Cross-curricular links

English

Writing – transcription

Pupils should be

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display slide 1 of the Presentation: How many verbs can you spot? Ask the children to work in pairs to write down all the verbs. When the children have had a few minutes, ask the class how many verbs they found. Go through the paragraph, asking individual children to identify verbs in each sentence. Slide 2…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Can be given a table with headings ‘er’, ‘ir’ and ‘re’ and cut up pictures to sort from the Activity: Actions or copy the vocabulary. They can agree actions to help remember the new verbs.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should be encouraged to research a wide range of additional verbs from the dictionary to establish the most common endings.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: attempting to read new verbs aloud

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Vocabulary and translations

chanter

to sing
courir

to run

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In this unit

Assessment - French Y5: French verbs in a week

Lesson 1: French - action!

Lesson 2: Who is doing what in French?

Lesson 3: French verbs in a spin

Lesson 4: French irregulars - to have and to be

Lesson 5: A French week

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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