Learning objective
- To understand a simple description of hair and eye colour.
Success criteria
- I can recognise a picture of someone from
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National curriculum
Languages
Pupils should be taught to:
- Listen
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Cross-curricular links
None.
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Recap and recall
Display the Presentation: Who is it? Talking in pairs, ask the children to take turns to choose and describe one of the pictures for their partner to guess, saying in French whether he or she is happy or serious.
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support
Could identify the correct portrait through the use of actions by the teacher (for example, pointing to hair for les cheveux or the colour black for noirs).
Pupils working at greater depth
Could be challenged to describe a picture independently, ensuring that they use the correct adjectival agreement, for example, les yeux bleus – blue eyes.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: identifying a person correctly from a
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Vocabulary and translations
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il a
he has
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elle a
she has
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In this unit
Maintained by: Kapow Primary team
Last update: 1st September, 2025
Lesson 4: Describing personality traits in French
Using simple sentence structures to practise making adjectives agree with feminine nouns and building vocabulary...
Lesson 1: Portraits – getting French adjectives to agree
Understanding that adjectives change depending on the gender of the noun that they describe, and...
Assessment – French Y4: Portraits
Assessment quiz and Knowledge catcher for use at the start and/or end of the unit...
Lesson 3: Describing people in French
Writing descriptions of portraits drawn by fellow pupils, applying vocabulary knowledge from the previous lesson...
