Y3/4 (B): Unit 2: School days
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Deduce the meaning of new words using a range of language detective skills.
- Accurately imitate the pronunciation of new vocabulary, showing awareness of how accents change the sound.
- Speak clearly and present simple phrases using a visual support.
- Explain what there is and is not in a classroom.
- Correctly identify masculine and feminine nouns in written form.
- Extract key information from a written text.
- Use modelled language to create sentences containing appropriate articles.
- Write familiar language with a degree of accuracy by applying knowledge of sound-spelling links.
Suggested prior learning
Y3/4 (B): Unit 1: This is me
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Y3/4 (B): Lesson 1: Days of the week
- To develop accurate pronunciation and intonation.
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 2: A French Maths lesson
- To link the spelling, sound and meaning of number words.
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 3: A French school timetable
To use the correct definite article and identify cognates and near cognates.
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 4: What is in your classroom?
- To say and write descriptive phrases.
Y3/4 (B): Lesson 5: School life
- To adapt phrases to build new sentences.
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