Y5/6 (A): Lesson 5: Planning my French holiday
Researching and presenting where to go on holiday, what to do, how to travel and what clothes to pack.
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Provide each child with a mini whiteboard and ask them to draw a three-by-three grid on their whiteboards.
Display the Presentation: Bingo - key vocabulary and explain that in each square they must write one of the listed holiday activities or items of clothing you might pack for a holiday. You may wish to hand out the Resource: Knowledge organiser: Planning a French holiday (one between two) as a support (see Adaptive teaching).
Ask the children to cross off items or activities in their grid as you read them out at random.
nager
manger
faire du ski
faire du camping
marcher
jouer au foot
des lunettes du soleil
un mailot de bain
un short
une robe
une casquette
le pyjama
The first child to cross out three squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally should shout Bingo! to win the game.
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Previously a generalist Primary teacher for 12 years, Simone now specialises in Languages. She is MFL Consultant and Languages Teacher at Robin Hood Primary. Her work with Mandarin Chinese resulted in the IoE Confucius Institute for Schools awarding her school with Confucius Classroom status. Simone is also a Confucius Classroom Manager. She teaches Mandarin across the key stages, with reciprocal visits to a link school in Beijing.
Simone has created a range of French lessons from KS1 to KS2 for Kapow Primary.
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