Pupils who are secure will be able to:

• Notice cognates and near cognates in the text.
• Recognise some previously known words.
• Use a dictionary to research the meaning of relevant vocabulary.
• Recognise and sort nouns by gender and number, and to explain the effect this may have on an adjective.
• Modify sentences to use the correct articles/pronouns (un/une and il/elle) according to gender.
• Unscramble jumbled sentences without any errors in word order.
• Recognise rules of agreement in longer phrases.
• Produce a short, structured paragraph using a range of familiar structures, with some manipulation of language and use of a word bank for support.