Y5/6 (A): Unit 6: Planning a French holiday
The children learn to use a combination of present and near future tenses, and become familiar with holiday related vocabulary around packing a suitcase and planning a journey. They explore which countries they might visit and why and ultimately research and plan a holiday to France.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Read and understand a simple story.
- Identify use of present and future tenses in reading and listening.
- Know how to form the near future tense.
- Speak in sentences.
- Integrate familiar language into a new context.
- Create a written paragraph including present and future tenses.
- Use a bilingual dictionary confidently.
Suggested prior learning
Y5/6 (A): Unit 5: Exploring the French-speaking world
Get startedLessons
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 1: To go to France and other countries
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 2: The near future in French
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 3: Holiday clothes
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 4: Holiday story
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 5: Planning my French holiday
Key skills
Key knowledge
Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
Full equipment list for the subject
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
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Two small empty suitcases
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Two identical sets of summer and winter holiday clothing to match selected items from slides 3 and 4 of the Presentation: Holiday clothes – see Lesson 3: Clothes for my French holiday
×1 - French – English dictionaries ×30
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Laptops or computers.
×15
Equipment list
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
-
Two small empty suitcases
×1 -
Two identical sets of summer and winter holiday clothing to match selected items from slides 3 and 4 of the Presentation: Holiday clothes – see Lesson 3: Clothes for my French holiday
×1 - French – English dictionaries ×30
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Laptops or computers.
×15
Related content
Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: French – Y6 Planning a French Holiday
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit " Unit 4: Planning a French holiday".
Vocabulary display: Planning a French holiday
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Planning a French holiday unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
None relevant to this unit.