Y3/4 (B): Unit 4: Colourful creatures
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Notice cognates and near-cognates.
- Use a dictionary to research the meaning of relevant vocabulary.
- Recognise and sort nouns by gender, and explain the effect this may have on an adjective.
- Recognise rules of agreement.
- Select the correct form of an adjective to ensure it agrees with the noun it describes.
- Use appropriate words and phrases to adapt model sentences.
- Identify similarities and differences between word order in French and English.
Suggested prior learning
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 5: A French friend
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Y3/4 (B): Lesson 1: Colourful connections
- To identify and pronounce the key phonemes ou, eu, and an.
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 2: Meet the animals
- To identify cognates and near cognates and use the correct indefinite article.
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 3: Nouns and colour adjectives
- To apply correct word order and agreement when using colour adjectives.
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 4: Animal portraits
- To create descriptions using a range of adjectives.
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 5: At the art gallery
- To describe animals using complex sentences.
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French
Knowledge organiser – French Y3/4: Colourful creatures
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English
English – Discuss writing similar to that which they are planning to write to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary, and grammar. Performing their compositions.