Lesson 4: Sightseeing in a French town
Using writing frames to build complex sentences with connectives and standalone adjectives, to give reasoned opinions about visiting places around a town.
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Organise the children into pairs and give each pair a piece of paper and a pencil. Ask the pairs to carry out the following tasks:
List as many direction words that they can remember (right, left etc).
List as many place words in a town that they can remember (e.g. le musée, le zoo).
List as many rules for using adjectives in French that they can remember (e.g. where do they go).
After two minutes, ask the pairs to join another pair, and to write down any extra words that the other pair had remembered, so that the pairs each have a complete list.
Depending on your class, you could, after two minutes, ask the groups of four to find another group of four and repeat the exercise. Otherwise carry out the next step as a class. Ask the groups (of four or eight) to read out their:
Direction words:
la droite - the right
la gauche - the left
tourne à droite - turn to the right
tourne à gauche - turn to the left
la deuxième à droite - the second on the right
a deuxième à gauche - the second on the left
Places in a town - the following are examples of what the children might say:
une école - a school
un supermarché - a supermarket
une pharmacie - a pharmacy
un parc - a park
une boulangerie - a bakery
un café - a cafe
une gare - a station
un musée - a museum
un zoo - a zoo
une piscine - a swimming pool
- Rules for adjectives in French:
adjectives must agree with the noun that they describe both for number and gender;
adjectives of colour go after the noun that they describe;
adjectives of size go before the noun that they describe (as they do in English).
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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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