Unit 5: Verbs in a French week
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Unit 5: Verbs in a French week
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Attempt to read new verbs aloud with confidence and mostly accurate pronunciation.
- Create an opinion phrase using one of the new verbs.
- Work together to visually and orally present a verb in at least three different forms, with the appropriate pronoun.
- Work together to build a verb spinner and use it to generate appropriate phrases.
- Recognise and recall different parts of verbs avoir and être.
- Create an original short text, correctly adapting a range of verbs to their appropriate form.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 2: Space exploration – in French
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: French – action!
Lesson 2: Who is doing what in French?
Lesson 3: French verbs in a spin
Lesson 4: French irregulars – to have and to be
Lesson 5: A French week
Key skills
Key knowledge
Equipment list
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: Y5 French verbs in a week
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit "Unit 5: Verbs in a French week".
French phonics videos: Y5 Verbs in a week
Phoneme practice for sounds used in this unit.
Vocabulary display: Verbs in a French week
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Verbs in a French week unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
- check spelling, meaning or both of these in a dictionary’