Lesson 3: Describing people in French

Writing descriptions of portraits drawn by fellow pupils, applying vocabulary knowledge from the previous lesson and taking care that adjectives agree in gender and number with the nouns they describe.

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Assessment – French Y4: Portraits
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Lesson 1: Portraits – getting French adjectives to agree
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Lesson 2: Simple descriptions in French
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Lesson 3: Describing people in French
Lesson 4: Describing personality traits in French
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Lesson 5: Writing portraits of friends in French
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