Unit 5: Visiting a town in France
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Unit 5: Visiting a town in France
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Describe routes to school using pictures and word cards.
- Follow simple directions accurately.
- Describe the relationship between places using a preposition.
- Put modes of transport into a simple sentence.
- Role-play buying tickets in French.
- Use modes of transport to build sentences about going to places.
- Begin constructing negative sentences correctly.
- Learn to say and read places in a town.
- Use a writing frame to give a reasoned opinion for visiting a place.
- Identify the grammatical elements of a text.
- Understand the gist of a text.
- Use a text to write their own description of a place.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 6: Meet my French family
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: French directions to school
- To create a description of my route to school.
Lesson 2: Directions to places in a French town
- To begin to understand, ask for and speak directions to places in a town.
Lesson 3: Transport in a French town
- To learn about travel to France through role play.
Lesson 4: Sightseeing in a French town
- To express and justify an opinion on where to visit in a town.
Lesson 5: French tourism
- To analyse a text and identify key grammatical features.
Key skills
Key knowledge
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French phonics videos: Y6 Visiting a town in France
Phoneme practice for sounds used in this unit.

French
Vocabulary display: Visiting a town in France
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Visiting a town in France unit.

French
Knowledge organiser: French – Visiting a town in France
Aimed at pupils, a single page that gives key facts and definitions from the unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
None relevant to this unit.