Learning objective

  • To use knowledge about language to solve a science-based puzzle.

Success criteria

  • I can look for patterns in language and

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National curriculum

Languages

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Understand

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

1: Lesson plan

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support:

Could discuss the pictures from the plant life cycle cards to establish and label keywords in English first: seed, stem, leaf, flower, insect, fruit. Look together at the captions to spot or match the Dutch nouns, using cognates and near cognates first, for example, stam and insecten.

 

Pupils working at greater depth:

Could fill in the blanks on the captions, discuss their strategies together and in a group see if they can make comparisons between the two languages (e.g. phrases take the form article-noun-verb)

 

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: recognising key vocabulary and structure clues,

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No vocabulary in this lesson

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Belinda Dean

French specialist

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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…
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