Learning objective
- To understand simple descriptive sentences.
Success criteria
- I can understand sentences to describe someone’s appearance.
- I
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National curriculum
Languages
Pupils should be taught to:
- Engage
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Cross-curricular links
None
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Recap and recall
Display the Presentation: Five friends.
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support
Could focus on just selecting one or two characteristics when describing a friend. If possible, they could work with an adult to create and rehearse their sentence about one of their classmates.
Pupils working at greater depth
Challenge them to extend their ideas to describe their friend, taking into account both their appearance and as many characteristics as they can. To further practise pronunciation and accuracy, they could present their description to the class.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: answering questions correctly in the quiz;
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Vocabulary and translations
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qui ?
who?
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il est...
he/it is…
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In this unit
Assessment - French Y4: Portraits
Lesson 1: Portraits – getting French adjectives to agree
Lesson 2: Simple descriptions in French
Lesson 3: Describing people in French
Lesson 4: Describing personality traits in French
Lesson 5: Writing portraits of friends in French
Maintained by: Kapow Primary team
Last update: 1st September, 2025
Lesson 3: Describing people in French
Writing descriptions of portraits drawn by fellow pupils, applying vocabulary knowledge from the previous lesson...
Lesson 5: Writing portraits of friends in French
Writing descriptive sentences in French about a friend, referring to hair and eye colour, height...
Assessment – French Y4: Portraits
Assessment quiz and Knowledge catcher for use at the start and/or end of the unit...
Lesson 1: Portraits – getting French adjectives to agree
Understanding that adjectives change depending on the gender of the noun that they describe, and...
