Unit 5: French transport
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Unit 5: French transport
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Explain strategies for working out the meaning of words.
- Recognise nouns that are cognates or near cognates.
- Recognise transport words in written form.
- Join in with a song using actions to aid recall.
- Form simple statements about a picture, using and adapting a model.
- Create a range of different phrases using a sentence builder.
- Generally, speak words with accurate pronunciation.
- Write a simple sentence, using a model for support and using two different accents.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 2: French adjectives of colour, size and shape
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: French transport language detectives
- To be able to compare French with English and identify words that are cognates.
Lesson 2: How shall we travel in France?
- To make changes to simple phrases and perform a song to an audience.
Lesson 3: On the road in France
- To be able to adapt, ask and answer questions about a picture prompt.
Lesson 4: Travel the French speaking world
- To be able to describe a journey to different French-speaking countries around the world.
Lesson 5: Journey to a French school
- To be able to conduct a survey in French and select an appropriate method to present the results.
Key skills
Key knowledge
Related content
Resources
Unit resources

French
Knowledge organiser: French – Y3 French transport
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "Year 3 French transport".

Other
French phonics videos: Y3 French transport
Phoneme practice for sounds used in this unit.

French
Vocabulary display: French transport
A display version of the key vocabulary from the French transport unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
- Geography: Use maps (and) atlases… to locate countries and describe features studied
- Mathematics: Statistics