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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Recognise and respond to directions.
- Form directional phrases of their own.
- Read and understand a range of sentences including directions.
- Form full sentences to ask and answer questions as modelled orally.
- Show some understanding of national identity.
- Understand a set of true/false statements and know where to locate the information about these statements in a graph/table.
- Use prompts to ask and answer necessary questions to complete information on a passport, seeking clarification if needed.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 4: French weather and the water cycle
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Directions in French
Lesson 2: Where in the world is French spoken?
Lesson 3: Treasures of the French-speaking world
Lesson 4: Investigating climate in the French-speaking world
Lesson 5: French globetrotters
Key skills
- Listening and selecting information from short audio passages to give an appropriate response.
- Identifying key information in simple writing.
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Key knowledge
- To apply changes in sound caused by accents when speaking, especially the acute accent (é), grave accent (è) and cedilla (ç).
- To know that a change in voice intonation can indicate when a question is being asked.
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Key vocabulary
au nord
au sud
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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)
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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Split pins ×30
- Counters ×15
The equipment below is optional
- World map ×15
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Unit resources
French phonics videos: Y5 French speaking world
Phoneme practice for sounds used in this unit.
Vocabulary display: French speaking world
A display version of the key vocabulary from the French speaking world unit.
Knowledge organiser: Y5 French-speaking world
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit 'French-speaking world'.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Geography
Locational knowledge
Pupils should be taught to:
- Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe […] and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities
- Use the eight points of a compass […] to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world.
See 'National curriculum - Geography key stages 1 and 2'.
Mathematics
Statistics
Pupils should be taught to:
- Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph.
- Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables.
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Unit 4: Planning a French holiday
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