Primary Theme: Portraits

Y5/6 (A): Lesson 3: Describing people in French

Applying vocabulary knowledge from the previous lesson, pupils write descriptions of other pupils’ drawings, taking care that adjectives agree with the nouns that they describe.

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Lesson 3: Describing people in French

Writing descriptions of portraits drawn by fellow pupils, applying vocabulary knowledge from the previous lesson and taking care that adjectives agree in gender and number with the nouns they describe.

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Y5/6 (A): Lesson 4: Describing personality traits in French

Practising making adjectives agree with feminine nouns and learning words to describe personality; building vocabulary by using simple sentence structures.

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Lesson 4: Describing personality traits in French

Using simple sentence structures to practise making adjectives agree with feminine nouns and building vocabulary with words to describe personality.

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Y5/6 (A): Lesson 5: Writing portraits of friends in French

Applying learning from the unit to write descriptive sentences about friends in French, referring to hair and eye colour, height and a personality trait.

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Lesson 5: Writing portraits of friends in French

Writing descriptive sentences in French about a friend, referring to hair and eye colour, height and a personality trait. Reinforcing learning and skills from the unit, in particular sentence structure and adjectival agreement by playing a human sentence game.

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