Y5/6 Lesson 3 (Cycle A): Where do adjectives go in French?

Children recap adjectival position and agreement with adjectives of colour and size and acquire some additional clothing-related vocabulary.

Learning objective

  • To understand adjectival position and agreement for gender and number

National curriculum

Languages

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding.
  • Read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing.
  • Understand basic grammar appropriate to the language being studied, including (where relevant): feminine, masculine (…).

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

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Download classroom resources

Teacher knowledge - language points

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: working in pairs or small groups, children can choose the correct adjective card, noting the different adjectival agreement endings.

Pupils working at greater depth: challenge them by ‘being the teacher’ and taking the lead in calling out phrases for children to respond to. Other children working at this level then verify whether responses are correct or incorrect.

Wrapping up

During the week

  • Make a display board for all the new clothing vocabulary in this unit.
  • Give out the Red Herring Cards, and get the children to create their own phrases using the clothing words they have learnt, initially practising speaking and then writing on mini whiteboards.
  • Do the Matching descriptions exercise if not done in the lesson.
  • Play the Promenons-nous dans les bois game, acting it out. You can have several people taking turns playing the wolf, mentioning a different item of clothing each. If you have space, play this as a running game. When the wolf is fully dressed he (or she) shouts J’arrive (I’m coming) and chases the children. If one is caught they can become the next wolf.
  • Watch the link: 'BBC Bitesize - Not again Farley! - Clothes'.  To encourage active listening, ask the children to write down any French words they hear.

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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