This French video introduces teachers to using Carroll diagrams as a way to sort and identify nouns by gender and number. Pupils begin with a phonics starter to connect sound and spelling patterns, then move on to spotting masculine, feminine, and plural forms using articles and word endings as clues. The activity reinforces the use of le, la, and les, and highlights that while an -e ending often signals feminine, there are exceptions.

This video is part of Kapow Primary’s French scheme – grammar. It demonstrates how to combine sorting skills with a reading task. Using monster descriptions, pupils match text to images, identify missing labels, and create their own imaginative descriptions. The lesson builds vocabulary, revisits adjective agreement, and encourages comparisons between French and English sentence structures. The completed Carroll diagram becomes a reference tool for future independent writing tasks, ready for the next step – creating original monster mash-ups.

French, key stage 2, Year 5, Unit 1: French monster pets, Lesson 2: Body parts in French