Unit 4: French-speaking world
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Unit 4: French-speaking world
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
Get startedLessons
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
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
Related content
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'.
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.