Y5/6 Lesson 2 (Cycle A): Clothes and colours in French

Through games to reinforce memory of clothes and colour vocabulary, children revise position of colour adjectives and adjectival agreement.

Learning objective

  • To add colour adjectives, adapting the suffix in accordance with gender

National curriculum

Languages

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Broaden their vocabulary and develop their ability to understand new words that are introduced into familiar written material.
  • Write phrases from memory, and adapt these to create new sentences, to express ideas clearly.

See link: National curriculum - Languages - Key stage 2.

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

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Teacher knowledge - language points

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: can work in small groups with the teacher to have support reading the phrases before selecting the right item of clothing. They can then repeat the phrase back to the teacher to practise the correct pronunciation, highlighting the adjectival agreement of the noun.

Pupils working at greater depth: challenge the children to use page 2 of the Activity Sheet : Coloriez les vêtements, colouring the clothing as they choose and writing the phrase to match, ensuring the adjective agrees with the noun – e.g une chemise vertea green shirt.

Wrapping up

During the week

  • Play La Tour Eiffel again either as a class or in small groups.
  • Play Dans ma valise
  • Play the Spelling die game in pairs:
  1. Each child has a piece of paper with numbers 1-6 written on it and they write an item of clothing, in English, next to each number;
  2. The children take it in turns to roll a die, and whatever number comes up indicates the word on that child’s list that they must try and spell from memory in French;
  3. The partner checks the spelling, using a dictionary if necessary, and if correctly spelt, the word is crossed off the list;
  4. It is then the other child’s turn;
  5. Rolling a number that has already been rolled where the spelling was correct means the child misses a go;
  6. The winner is the first player to cross off all their words.

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

Created by:
Simone Haughey,  
French specialist
Previously a generalist Primary teacher for 12 years, Simone now specialises in Languages. She is MFL Consultant and Languages Teacher at Robin Hood Primary. Her work with Mandarin Chinese resulted in the IoE Confucius Institute for Schools awarding her school…
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