Primary Theme: French town
Lesson 2: Directions to places in a French town
Using prepositional phrases and learning directional vocabulary to follow and give directions from one place to another, describing places along the way.
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 3: Let's travel!
Using transport vocabulary, prepositional phrases and the near future tense to talk about a pretend trip; preparing passports and role-playing buying tickets.
Lesson 3: Transport in a French town
Using transport vocabulary, prepositions, the near future tense and negatives to talk about a pretend trip to Paris to visit landmarks. Preparing passports and role-playing buying tickets for different kinds of transport.
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 4: Sightseeing in a French town
Building complex sentences with connectives and standalone adjectives; giving and justifying opinions about visiting places in a town.
Lesson 4: Sightseeing in a French town
Using writing frames to build complex sentences with connectives and standalone adjectives, to give reasoned opinions about visiting places around a town.
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 5: French tourism
Identifying grammatical features in a piece of written French text.
Y5/6 (B): Unit 5: Visiting a town in France
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Name places in a town.
- Follow simple directions accurately.
- Describe the relationship between places using a preposition.
- Role-play buying tickets in French.
- Construct negative sentences correctly.
- 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
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Lessons
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 1: Welcome to my town
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 2: Directions to places in a French town
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 3: Let’s travel!
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 4: Sightseeing in a French town
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 5: French tourism
Key skills
- Listening and gisting information from an extended audio passage using language detective skills.
- Reading short authentic texts for enjoyment or information.
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Key knowledge
- That an understanding of different sounds in French can help when attempting to pronounce new vocabulary.
- Partitive articles describe where something is placed, e.g. le livre est à côté du stylo.
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Key vocabulary
dans ma ville
il y a
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Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
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- French – English dictionaries ×30
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Unit resources
French
Vocabulary display: Visiting a town in France (Cycle B)
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Visiting a town in France (Cycle B) unit.
French
Knowledge organiser: French Y5/6 (B) Visiting a town in France
Aimed at pupils, a single page document that gives key facts and definitions from the Visiting a French town unit.
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