This French video introduces teachers to a lively role-play lesson where pupils take a whistle-stop tour of the French-speaking world. The activity begins with setting the classroom as an “airline,” complete with passports for each child, and uses role play to capture imagination and build enthusiasm.

This French video introduces teachers to a lesson that uses language learning as a way to promote intercultural understanding and begin to challenge stereotypes about France and other French-speaking countries. Pupils work with the simple structure il y a (“there is/are”) as both a question and a statement, practising intonation to turn a phrase into a question.

This French video introduces teachers to a lesson where pupils go on a tour of French-speaking countries, building on the transport topic they encountered in Year 3. The lesson provides opportunities for speaking, listening, reading, and writing descriptive phrases, with a warm-up that revises colour adjectives through jumbled word and missing letter activities.