Primary Theme: Food and drink
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Pre-lesson checklist
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Mapping and measuring the distance food travels to reach the UK and using a scale bar to convert measurements.
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Y3/4: Lesson 4 (Cycle B): French food
Extending knowledge of French food vocabulary, using dictionary skills to look up new words and giving opinions.
Unit 4: Spanish food and drink
Asking and answering questions about food preferences.
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Express likes and dislikes about singular and plural food items.
- Ask and answer questions about food likes and dislikes.
- Listen and select key information about food preferences.
- Deduce meal choices by finding out about food preferences.
- Conduct an interview about food preferences.
- Ask questions in a variety of formats to find out about food preferences.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 4: In a Spanish café
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Food likes and dislikes
Lesson 2: Finding out food preferences
Lesson 3: Café conversations
Lesson 4: Guess my pizza
Lesson 5: Personalised pizzas
Lesson 6: Guess your partner’s answers
Key skills
- Using a range of language detective strategies to decode new vocabulary including context and text type.
- Identifying key information in simple writing.
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Key knowledge
- That phonic knowledge can be applied to pronounce unfamiliar words.
- That when expressing likes and dislikes about a noun, me gusta is followed by the definite article (el or la) then the noun e.g. Me gusta el pescado.
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Key vocabulary
Me gusta(n)
No me gusta(n)
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Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Bilingual Spanish-English dictionaries ×15
- Counters Per pair: 7
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Knowledge organiser: Y5 – Spanish food and drink
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit 'Unit 4: Spanish food and drink.'
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Vocabulary display: Spanish food and drink
A display version of the key vocabulary from the unit 'Spanish food and drink'.
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Translations: Spanish food and drink
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