Y5/6 Lesson 3 (Cycle A): Describing my French family

The children piece information together from written clues to identify family members and learn to build descriptive sentences into a short paragraph.

Learning objective

  • To be able to build descriptive sentences into a short paragraph

National curriculum

Languages

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Read carefully and show understanding of simple writing.
  • Write at varying length using a variety of grammatical structures.

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: show the children the first page from the Activity: Family album. Working in small groups, the children can read  the sentences introducing each member and then add the names to the album photo.

Pupils working at greater depth: can unscramble the jumbled sentences to build and write a description of each family member then work out who they are on the photo.

Wrapping up

During the week

  • Mon ami(e) (my friend): use the puzzle pieces from the Activity: Family album to build a description of someone in the class for pupils to guess.

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

Created by:
Belinda Dean,  
French specialist
Belinda has been a French and Spanish teacher based in Bath for more than 15 years. She has delivered a range of courses for teachers and PGCE students and is particularly passionate about weaving language, culture and global learning across…
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