Lesson 3: Shapes of different colours and sizes in French
Learning French words for size adjectives and describing shapes using both size and colour. Matching descriptive captions to corresponding images and completing a tangram puzzle.
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Before or at the start of this lesson, you may want to recap with the children what nouns and adjectives are in English.
Use the Presentation: Shapes and colours to remind the children how to describe a simple shape (circle, square, rectangle, triangle) using a colour adjective (red, green, yellow, blue). You are checking that the children have remembered not only the vocabulary but also the position of the adjective. The colour adjective comes after the noun. You will not have taught this explicitly but the children will have been aware of this from the previous lesson. Resist trying to explain adjectival position at this stage.
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Belinda has been a French and Spanish teacher based in Bath for more than 15 years. She has delivered a range of courses for teachers and PGCE students and is particularly passionate about weaving language, culture and global learning across the curriculum. Having previously worked in travel publishing, she is a keen explorer and nature lover with a fondness for all things South America.
Belinda has created topics on introductions through puppets, playground games, and has created a French science lesson on the circle of life.
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