Y5/6 (A): Lesson 3: Describing people in French

Applying vocabulary knowledge from the previous lesson, pupils write descriptions of other pupils’ drawings, taking care that adjectives agree with the nouns that they describe.

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Assessment – French Y5/6 (A): Portraits
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Y5/6 (A): Lesson 1: Portraits – getting French adjectives to agree
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Y5/6 (A): Lesson 2: Simple descriptions in French
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Y5/6 (A): Lesson 3: Describing people in French
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Y5/6 (A): Lesson 5: Writing portraits of friends in French
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