Lesson 1: French transport language detectives
Using language detective skills to recognise cognates and near-cognates to help work out the meaning of new transport vocabulary.
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
The theme of this unit is les transports - transport, but do not tell the children this yet. Let them discover it for themselves by using their language detective skills.
Before the lesson you will have written or stuck one of the transport words from the Resource: Transport words on each of the sheets of A3 sugar paper and will have displayed these sheets on the walls and tables. If displaying on walls, make sure the sheets are low enough to allow children to annotate (see Main event).
Allow the children a few minutes to move around and look at the words, talking with a partner about what they can see, what the words might mean and how the words might be related to each other.
Ask the questions:
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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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