Learning objective

  • To conjugate the verb ‘to go’ and say I or someone else is going to a country.

Success criteria

  • I can label the countries in French on

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National curriculum

Languages

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Broaden

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display Presentation: Country names.  Organise the children into pairs or table groups and instruct them to work out the French name for each of the countries, making sure that they also remember the gender. Circulate while the children are working to assess and prompt and then go through the answers as a class, using slides…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support:

Should begin with just a few forms of the verb aller, adding more pronouns as the pupils gain confidence, ensuring that they recognise where and how the verb changes. Should extend the sentence to add a country once they feel secure. More confident children could offer paired support to assist their learning.

Pupils working at greater depth: As they become more confident with different conjugations of the verb aller, challenge them to make different sentences saying where they or someone else is going, using the correct preposition.

 

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: being able to use the correct

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Vocabulary and translations

  • aller

    to go

  • l'Angleterre (f)

    England

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Simone Haughey

French specialist

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Previously a generalist Primary teacher for 12 years, Simone now specialises in Languages. She is MFL Consultant and Languages Teacher at Robin Hood Primary. Her work with Mandarin Chinese resulted in the IoE Confucius Institute for Schools awarding her school with Confucius Classroom…
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