Year 5 French Lesson Plan: Shopping in French

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Subjects >
French >
Key stage 2 >
Year 5 >
Unit 3: Shopping in France >
Lesson 4: Shopping in French – how much?

Learning objective

To be able to use vocabulary to describe a quantity of different food nouns.

Success criteria

I can recognise whether a noun is masculine

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National curriculum

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Pupils should be taught to:

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Cross-curricular links

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Instruct the children to play the memory game, Je vais au marché et j’achète… (I’m going to market and I’m buying…) in their table groups. Unlike previous times the children have played, this time they must add a number for the items, for example: Je vais au marché et j’achète une pomme – I’m going to market…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could work in supported groups and focus only on ‘de la‘ words and ‘des‘ words before progressing to ‘du‘ words and ‘de l’‘ words.

Pupils working at greater depth

Could challenge to add additional words to their circles by looking up new vocabulary in the bilingual dictionary.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: being able to sort cards correctly by

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Vocabulary and translations

je voudrais

I would like
c’est combien ?

how much is it?

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In this unit

Assessment - French Y5: Shopping in France

Lesson 1: French money, numbers and prices

Lesson 2: French fruit market

Lesson 3: Monsieur Mangetout's French food week

Lesson 4: Shopping in French - how much?

Lesson 5: French detectives in the kitchen

Originally created by:

Belinda Dean

French specialist

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…

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Last update: 22nd July, 2025

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Learning objective

Success criteria

National curriculum

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Extended-mode explainer videos

Adaptive teaching

Assessing progress and understanding

Vocabulary and translations

je voudrais

c’est combien ?

In this unit

Belinda Dean

French specialist

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Lesson 2: French fruit market

Lesson 5: French detectives in the kitchen

Lesson 1: French money, numbers and prices

Lesson 3: Monsieur Mangetout’s French food week