Primary Theme: House
Pre-lesson checklist
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 1: My French house
Learning how to describe different types of houses and the rooms in a house. Practising listening and speaking skills. Combining familiar structures with new vocabulary.
Lesson 1: My French house
Learning how to describe different types of houses and the rooms in a house. Practising listening and speaking skills.
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Y5/6 (B): Unit 2: In my French house
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Understand the French words for different types of houses and their rooms.
- Ask and answer questions using vocabulary about houses and rooms.
- Remember and understand the elements of a house.
- Use a writing frame to create a written description of a house.
- Label things in a bedroom and use the related vocabulary in simple sentences.
- Use prepositions accurately, both verbally and in written sentences.
- Write a letter to describe all the rooms in a house, using at least three prepositions accurately to say where things are.
Suggested prior learning
Y5/6 (B): Unit 1: French transport
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Lessons
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 1: My French house
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 2: Home sweet home!
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 3: Describing my French room
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 4: Where is it in my French bedroom?
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 5: A letter about my French house
Key skills
- Using a range of language detective strategies to decode new vocabulary.
- Identifying key information in a written text.
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Key knowledge
- How to identify cognates and near cognates.
- How to change the definite articles le/la – the, to un/une – a/an.
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Key vocabulary
à côté de
dans
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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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- French – English dictionaries ×30
- Sticky tape ×1
- Card ×30
- Colouring pencils ×8
- Highlighters ×30
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Knowledge organiser – French Y5/6 (B): In my French house
A visual summary of key vocabulary, grammar and sentence structures from the unit.
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Vocabulary display: In my French house
A display version of the key vocabulary from the In my French house unit.
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