This French video introduces teachers to a cross-curricular topic combining sport, language learning, and cultural knowledge. Pupils learn football-related vocabulary, practise pronunciation, and explore strategies for independent vocabulary learning. The lesson encourages pupils to reflect on how they remember new words and to apply games and competitions, such as the scorer vocabulary goal sheet, to keep motivation high.

This video is part of Kapow Primary’s French scheme – football. It demonstrates how to integrate reading and comprehension with cultural learning. Pupils research famous French footballers before writing about one using new vocabulary, then play a translation-based “find someone who” game to consolidate understanding. The next lesson develops this further by teaching how to express sports preferences orally and in writing.

French, Upper key stage 2, Year 6, Unit 2: French football champions, Lesson 3: French footballers – where do they come from?