Y5/6 Lesson 5 (Cycle A): My extraordinary French family

Understanding how sentences are constructed and how building blocks can be re-used and substituted to build a range of new sentences; using existing sentences to produce a written composition about a family.

Learning objective

  • To plan and prepare a short presentation about my family.

National curriculum

Languages

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Describe people orally and in writing.
  • Express ideas clearly.

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: limit the children to building blue and green rainbow sentences, first by building the jumbled sentence then changing name and age words.

Pupils working at greater depth: create extended sentences using et (and) / mais (but), such as ‘elle adore les bonbons mais elle n’aime pas les chocolats’ – she loves sweets but doesn’t like chocolate. Challenge them to try and incorporate any other information from the units covered so far.

Wrapping up

During the week

  • Display the rainbows on the wall and invite the children to come up with alternative word cards for each colour sentence. These could become a sentence builder on the wall.
  • Use the words or sentences from a rainbow paragraph as an outdoor orienteering- style activity by writing a letter on the back of each word card, which they need to put in the right order to spell out a secret message.  
  • Create vlogs/animations to present their own or fictional family. This could be shared with a partner school overseas.

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

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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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