Mixed-age Year 5/6

Learning adjectives for describing people’s physical appearance and their personality. Creating simple sentences ensuring that the adjectives agree with the gender of the noun.

This UKS2 mixed-age unit draws on vocabulary and grammar learned in Years 3, 4 and 5, introduces family and relations vocabulary, the possessive adjective, my, and how to express likes and dislikes.

Learning vocabulary to describe items of clothing, along with the different forms of the indefinite article. Incorporating previous learning about colour into their descriptions of clothing and recapping the concept of adjectival agreement. Expressing their opinions about outfits in French.

Learning phrases to describe the weather and vocabulary for the compass points; counting from 1 -100 in multiples of ten; combining this knowledge to make statements about what the temperature is in different parts of France and to deliver a weather forecast.

Discovering the many countries in the world that speak French, giving and following directions in French and discussing climate using comparative language.

A mixed-age Y5/6 unit. The children learn to use a combination of present and near-future tenses, and become familiar with holiday-related vocabulary around packing a suitcase and planning a journey. They explore which countries they might visit and why and ultimately research and plan a holiday to France.

Children use language detective skills to spot cognates, learn transport-related vocabulary and construct sentences using parts of the verb ‘aller‘ with prepositions. 

This unit will be available from 16th October 2023.

This unit will be available from 1st December 2023.

This unit will be available from 1st December 2023.

This unit will be available from 1st December 2023.

This unit will be available from 1st January 2024.