Primary Theme: Family
Lesson 4: What my French family likes
Understanding and expressing simple opinions, saying what I, and others in my family, like or do not like, and using plural nouns with the definite article.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 5: My extraordinary French family
Understanding how sentences are constructed and how building blocks can be re-used and substituted to build a range of new sentences. Using existing sentences to produce a written composition about a family.
Lesson 5: My extraordinary French family
Understanding how sentences are constructed and how building blocks can be re-used and substituted to build a range of new sentences. Using existing sentences to produce a written composition about a family.
Unit 6: Meet my French family
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Complete correctly a gap-fill activity to match French vocabulary with pictures.
- Recognise words that are similar to English.
- Adapt a sentence to change its meaning.
- Apply some understanding of French pronunciation.
- Recognise key information within a longer text.
- Build sentences confidently using word cards.
- Respond to spoken opinions with the correct gesture.
- Use different opinions in sentences.
- Change elements of a sentence whilst retaining the meaning.
- Organise a text, making simple adaptations that do not affect its overall sense.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 6: French and the Eurovision Song Contest
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Lessons
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
Key skills
- Listening and selecting information from short audio passages to give an appropriate response.
- Identifying key information in simple writing.
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Key knowledge
- To apply changes in sound caused by accents when speaking, especially the acute accent (é), grave accent (è) and cedilla (ç).
- To know that there are compound nouns in French e.g. mon grand-père, mes grand-parents.
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Key vocabulary
mon frère
ma sœur
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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- Bilingual dictionaries ×15
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Unit resources
French phonics videos: Y5 Meet my French family
Phoneme practice for sounds used in this unit.
Vocabulary display: Meet my French family
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Meet my French family unit.
Knowledge Organiser – French Y5: Meet my French family
Aimed at pupils, a double page that gives key facts and definitions from the unit.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
None relevant to this unit.
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Unit 5: Visiting a town in France
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