This French video introduces teachers to a lesson where children begin to explore comparison language, linking directly with their scientific knowledge of the solar system. The session builds on prior work with nouns, articles, and adjectives, focusing on how adjectives agree in gender and number.

This French video introduces teachers to a lesson that links directly with science, using the theme of the solar system. The aim is to encourage children to use their language detective skills by predicting context and making connections with prior knowledge before working with longer texts.

This French video introduces teachers to a lesson on quantity words and grammar, focusing on the different ways of saying some in French. Building on the previous story, children are encouraged to notice how phrases such as du poulet or de la soupe appear naturally in context before analysing how they work.

This French video introduces teachers to the first unit of Year 5, focusing on developing pupils’ detective skills for tackling unknown vocabulary. Rather than translating word for word, children explore a non-fiction text, identifying features such as cognates, visual clues, and text type to help them infer meaning.

This French video introduces teachers to using Carroll diagrams as a way to sort and identify nouns by gender and number. Pupils begin with a phonics starter to connect sound and spelling patterns, then move on to spotting masculine, feminine, and plural forms using articles and word endings as clues.

This French video introduces teachers to a creative sentence-building activity inspired by Spike Milligan’s playful poetry. Pupils combine animal nouns and body parts to invent fantastical creatures, applying prior learning on gender, liaison, and sentence structure.