Unit 5: Visiting a town in France
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Unit 5: Visiting a town in France
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Describe routes to school using pictures and word cards.
- Follow simple directions accurately.
- Describe the relationship between places using a preposition.
- Put modes of transport into a simple sentence.
- Role-play buying tickets in French.
- Use modes of transport to build sentences about going to places.
- Begin constructing negative sentences correctly.
- Learn to say and read places in a town.
- Use a writing frame to give a reasoned opinion for visiting a place.
- Identify the grammatical elements of a text.
- Understand the gist of a text.
- Use a text to write their own description of a place.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 6: Meet my French family
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: French directions to school
Lesson 2: Directions to places in a French town
Lesson 3: Transport in a French town
Lesson 4: Sightseeing in a French town
Lesson 5: French tourism
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
- Bilingual dictionaries ×15
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A map showing roads and places, either outside in the playground using chalk or in the classroom using masking tape
×1 - Something to use as a stamp for passport control ×1
- Your local tourism website ×1
The equipment below is optional
- Aller a l’école picture resources from Lesson 1 ×1
Equipment list
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Bilingual dictionaries ×15
-
A map showing roads and places, either outside in the playground using chalk or in the classroom using masking tape
×1 - Something to use as a stamp for passport control ×1
- Your local tourism website ×1
The equipment below is optional
- Aller a l’école picture resources from Lesson 1 ×1
Related content
Unit resources
French phonics videos: Y6 Visiting a town in France
Phoneme practice for sounds used in this unit.
Vocabulary display: Visiting a town in France
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Visiting a town in France unit.
Knowledge organiser: French – Visiting a town in France
Aimed at pupils, a single page that gives key facts and definitions from the unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
None relevant to this unit.