Lesson 5: Writing portraits of friends in French
Writing descriptive sentences in French about a friend, referring to hair and eye colour, height and a personality trait. Reinforcing learning and skills from the unit, in particular sentence structure and adjectival agreement by playing a human sentence game.
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Working in table groups, ask the children to come up with a sentence to describe each person in their group using the following structure:
Il/Elle a les cheveux [...] et les yeux [...]. et il est poli. Il/Elle s'appelle [...].
After you have given the children some time to work out their sentences, select one person from each group in turn and ask the group to give you the sentence they made up about that person.
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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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