Unit Overview for Year 4
Unit
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About this unit
La rentrée (Back to School) Children learn about ‘Back to
School’ in France. They read a poem and take part in a
languages detective activity. They learn to say what they like
or don’t like doing and they learn strategies for writing from
memory. Children learn to ask for items and for help in the
classroom and work in groups to read, edit and perform a
play script.
New Language content
Names for classroom items
L’argent de poche (Pocket money) Children continue to gain
confidence in manipulating numbers and they learn further
expressions for likes and dislikes. They begin to learn about
the euro. They prepare and perform a radio or TV advert for a
toy.
Expressing preference
Raconte-moi une histoire (Tell me a story) Children work on
sounds and spellings. They continue to gain confidence in
manipulating numbers. They learn some common adjectives
and revise how to make simple feminine agreements. The
unit is based on a song that tells the story of Sleeping Beauty.
Numbers in multiples of 10,
up to 100
Asking for help in the
classroom
J’aime plus infinitive eg
colorier
Numbers 21 – 39
Simple prices in euros
Classroom instructions
Adjectives that describe the
characters in a story
10
Vive le sport! (Our sporting lives) Children learn the names for
some sports and practise saying what they like and don’t like
playing. They learn the days of the week and learn to say
what kind of activities they participate in on particular days.
Names of sports with the
verbs jouer and faire
Days of the week
Grammar and Phonic Focus
Phonic Focus: (some consolidation) [ɑ̃ ] en / an; [i] I; [ʃ] ch; [o]
o / au; [u] ou; [e] er; [ɔ] o; [e] é; silent final consonants
Grammar Focus: revision of masculine/feminine indefinite
article – le/la; adjectives - how spelling can change according
to gender eg nouveau/nouvelle; revision of question forms
and rising intonation; when to use subject pronouns tu/vous;
Phonic focus: [e] é; [ɛ̃] in; silent final consonant in vingt;
sounded final consonant in vingt et un, vingt-huit; revision of
nasal sounds; [Ø] eu; [ik] ique
Grammar focus: 1st and 2nd person singular of verbs ending in
–er – j’aime, tu aimes; asking questions – rising intonation;
use of the negative eg je n’aime pas
Phonic focus: (some consolidation)
[ɑ̃ ] an/en; [ʀ] (English grapheme r/wr); [s] c/ç
Grammar focus: verbs in the 3rd person singular eg il
arrive/elle jette and for extension to include être and avoir;
imperative or command form in the plural (vous) and the
singular (tu) form; revision of definite/indefinite article for
nouns; revision of position of adjectives and adjectival
agreement eg Il est charmant/Elle est charmante
Phonic focus: sounded final consonants; [i] i / y; [sjɔ̃] tion, [ɔʀ]
or; [k] qu;
Grammar focus: revision of the negative; 1st and 2nd person
of regular ‘er’ verbs; no capitalisation for days of the week in
French
11
Le carnaval des animaux (Carnival of animals) This unit is
based on The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns. The
children learn to describe animals characterised by the music
and talk about their natural habitats. They learn how to tell
the time on the hour.
Names of animals and some
animal habitats
Adjectives to describe animals
Some adverbs
Telling the time on the hour
and asking the time
12
Quel temps fait-il? (What’s the weather like) Children learn
weather phrases and use negative numbers. Aesop’s fable Le
Vent et le Soleil (The Wind and the Sun) is used. Children
learn the names of common articles of clothing and relate
these to the weather. They learn to say the date and to write
and say telephone numbers.
More weather phrases: il
neige, il gèle
Names of items of clothing
Saying the date
Phonic focus: revision of [u] ou; difference between [u] ou
and [y] u; [k] qu; silent h; silent final consonants;
pronunciation of adjectives with -e ending and without;
synthesis of known phonemes to form phonetically regular
words
Grammar focus: using a wider range of question forms to ask
and answer questions ; adverbs; revision of adjectival
agreement; revision of subject pronouns; revision of verbs –
3rd person singular
Phonic focus: [ɔ̃] on, [ɔn] one/onne, revising common
phonemes e.g. [ɛ] e, [e] é, [ɑ̃ ] an/ en; consolidation of
phoneme-grapheme correspondences; breaking words into
individual phonemes; synthesising phonemes to build
phonetically regular words
Grammar focus: prepositions; singular/plural of indefinite
article ie un/une/des; no capitalisation for date; ordinal
numbers