Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Say the numbers 1-31 in French.
- Read and calculate Maths sums correctly.
- Match French months to their English equivalents.
- Ask when someone’s birthday is and say when their birthday is.
- Compare similarities and differences between birthdays in the UK and France.
- Write sentences to create a wish list, describing things orally and in writing.
- Appreciate songs in the language.
- Compare French festivals and their traditions with English ones.
Suggested prior learning
Y3/4 (B): Unit 2: School days
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Lessons
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 1: Numbers 1-31
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 2: Months of the year
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 3: Seasons and dates
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 4: Celebrating a French birthday
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 5: Birthdays in France
Key skills
- Using a variety of conversational phrases.
- Applying knowledge of cognates and near cognates to work out the meaning of new vocabulary.
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Key knowledge
- To become familiar with the key phonemes oi, in, eu, eau and those that are represented by the letters z/s, x and i.
- To know months, seasons, and days of the week in French are not capitalised unless used at the beginning of a sentence.
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Key vocabulary
la date
quelle est la date ?
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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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A small ball or soft toy
×1 - French – English dictionaries ×30
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A class teddy or mascot
×1
The equipment below is optional
- Birthday cake
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – French: Birthday Celebrations
A visual summary of key vocabulary, grammar and sentence structures from the unit.
Vocabulary display: Birthday celebrations
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Birthday celebrations unit.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
British values
- Further tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions by enabling students to acquire an appreciation of and respect for their own and other cultures.
