Unit 1: Portraits - describing in French
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Unit 1: Portraits – describing in French
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Understand that adjectives change depending on whether they are describing a boy or girl, for example: sérieux and sérieuse.
- Identify a person correctly from a description of their hair and eye colour.
- Place word cards in the correct order, with the adjectives following the noun.
- Compose a spoken sentence to describe a friend.
- Write four sentences accurately with the correct adjectival agreement, helped by a support sheet.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 2: French adjectives of colour, size and shape
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Portraits – getting French adjectives to agree
Lesson 2: Simple descriptions in French
Lesson 3: Describing people in French
Lesson 4: Describing personality traits in French
Lesson 5: Writing portraits of friends in French
Key skills
Key knowledge
Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Related content
Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – French Y4: Portraits – describing in French
Aimed at pupils, two pages which gives key facts and definitions from the unit 'Unit 1: Portraits – describing in…
French phonics videos: Y4 Portraits – describing in French
Phoneme practice for sounds used in this unit.
Vocabulary display: Portraits – describing in French
A display version of the key vocabulary from the French greetings with puppets unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Art
‘Pupils should be taught:
- about great artists, architects and designers in history.’