Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 5
Medway
Lesson one
Une Histoire Sombre........
Resources/preparation: flashcards of various subject words to revise, musical instruments as buzzers
Framework
refs
O5.1
Prepare and
practise a
simple
conversation,
reusing
familiar
vocabulary
and structures
in new
contexts.
O5.2
Understand
and express
simple
opinions
Learning
Objective
To play a game
to revise
vocabulary.
To be able to
introduce
themselves and
explain their
subject
likes/dislikes.
Introduction/
Warm up
Play the memory
game.
Pupils have 30
seconds to memorise a
selection of pictures on
OHP/whiteboard/
Flashcards
Remove one of the
pictures and rearrange
while the pupils’ eyes
are closed. Pupils try
to remember which
picture is missing.
Activities
Revise vocabulary to describe yourself and your
preferences.
Je m’appelle Emily. J’ai 10 ans. J’aime la
natation. Ma matière préférée, c’est les maths.
Set up a tv-style quiz show
Divide class into small groups with colour names.
Each team presents themselves to the audience.
Je m’appelle etc….
Plenary/
consolidation
Announce
points totals
and find
les gagnants
(the winners)
KAL
New
Language
les gagnants
(m pl)
(the winners)
Nominate a captain for each team. S/he is the
person who runs to you with pictures in the
games.
Game 1 – “what’s this?” teams compete to name
flashcards. (Provide ‘buzzers’)
Game 2 – “cherchez” (find)
Real props in a box, call out words for groups to
find and run to quiz master.
Game 3 – find the picture
Flashcards placed around room
Game 4 - play name the classroom object. Say
the letters of a word, children write down word
then buzz when they can name the object.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
 Morning and afternoon register choose a French topic from yr 5 –
children have to say a word – eg a subject, a weather phrase etc
Evaluation
ICT Links
www.linguafun.eu Use games from any of the sections
covered so far in the plans.
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 5
Medway
Lesson two
Une Histoire Sombre…….
Resources/preparation: ppt Une Histoire Sombre
Framework
refs
O5.3
Listen
attentively and
understand
more complex
phrases and
sentences
L5.3
Re-read
frequently a
variety of
short texts
IU5.2
Recognise
similarities
and
differences
between
places
Learning
Objective
To listen to a
story and
recognise
familiar words
and phrases.
To be able to
describe
coloured objects
in more detail
showing
agreement of
adjective.
Introduction/
Warm up
Play what’s in my
pencil-case? To revise
Il y a objects and
colours.
Qu’est-ce qu’il y a dans
ma trousse?
(what is in my pencil
case ?)
Activities
Plenary/
consolidation
Using book ‘Une Histoire Sombre’ read
the story in full (ppt). Avoid providing
translations in English during first reading.
Allow children to see pictures and enjoy
hearing language at text level.
Use tone of voice to emphasise darkness
of text contrasting with last page.
Encourage children to chorus repeated
phrase:
‘sombre, très sombre…’
Hold up different
shades of blue.
Ask whether
they are
bleu sombre
or bleu clair?
(light blue)
(add e to clair for
feminine words)
Which words/phrases do they recognise?
Dans, souris, salle.
Discuss Il y a/Il y avait.
Talk about the meaning of sombre
(English same spelling)
Can be dark (as in dark blue) or
gloomy/dismal
What do they think the story is about? Do
they know any similar English stories?
Use flashcards and repetition activities to
teach new vocabulary.
un bois un château une porte
un escalier un couloir un rideau
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
-
Design/literacy: use the colourful curtain picture, design own colourful curtain, using
dictionaries to find additional colour words
Evaluation
KAL
Il y a ( present
tense)
There is/are
Il y avait ( past
continuous)
There was
Il était (literally –
it was)
When used with
colours the adj
sombre comes
after the colour
New
Language
Sombre
Clair(e)
un bois
(wood)
un château
(castle)
une porte
(door)
un escalier
(stairs)
un couloir
(corridor)
un rideau
(cutain)
Il y a
bleu(e) sombre
dark blue
bleu(e) clair(e)
light blue
Il y avait
Il était
ICT Links
Ppt Une Histoire Sombre (translation notes on each page)
http://lexiquefle.free.fr/maison.html (a virtual tour of a French house
locating rooms on a plan)
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 5
Medway
Lesson three
Une Histoire Sombre …..
Resources/preparation: Une Histoire Sombre, preposition flashcards, preposition matching cards
Framework
refs
Learning
Objective
Introduction/
Warm up
05.3
Listen
attentively and
understand
more complex
phrases and
sentences
To understand
the meaning of
position
prepositions and
use in simple
sentences.
Re-read Une
Histoire
Sombre
Get children to
say the words
they have
learned
Un bois
sombre, très
sombre.
L5.1
Re-read
frequently a
variety of short
texts
Plenary/
consolidation
Activities
Revise à gauche, à droite
(point to left, point to right)
dans (in) (right index finger inside left clasped hand)
Introduce devant (in front of) (hands held out to the
front)
derrière (behind) (hands behind back)
sur (on top of)(hands on head)
en haut de (at the top of) (fingers walking up stairs)
play game, echoing word and mime only if correct.
Show the preposition flashcards.
Introduce le bain(bath) (could also be le baignoire)
Teach phrases
Le singe est dans le bain. (The monkey is in the
bath)
Le singe est devant la porte.
Le singe est derrière la porte.
Le singe est sur la table.
Le singe est en haut de l’escalier.
Re-read Une
Histoire Sombre
Children doing
correct mime
when they hear
preposition
words
KAL
Positioning of
prepositions
dans derrière
sur
en haut de
New
Language
en haut de
(at the top
of)
devant
derrière
sur
le bain
(bath)
le singe
(monkey)
Paired work matching pictures and sentences.
When confident mix up cards, turn over and play
matching pairs. They must say the sentence to win
the pair.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
 Traditional Songs – Learn Le Fermier dans son pré (resource file)
Evaluation
ICT Links
Ppt – preposition song (sung to tune of The Farmer’s in his den)
http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/french/sect35/n
o_08/no_08.htm preposition activities
http://www.hello-world.com/French/learn/prepositions.php
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 5
Medway
Lesson four
Une Histoire Sombre.............
Resources/preparation:
Framework
refs
L5.3
Write words,
phrases and
short
sentences
using a
reference
source.
O5.3
Listen
attentively
and
understand
more
complex
words and
phrases.
flashcards of clothes, armoire flashcard, Une Histoire Sombre, term 5 flashcards.
Learning
Objective
Listen for
changes to
sentences and
be able to
identify what
kind of word
has changed.
To use
dictionaries to
change words
in sentences.
Introduction/
Warm up
Play what’s in
the wardrobe?
Use OHT or
IWB to revise
clothes
Qu’est-ce
qu’il y a dans
l’armoire ?
Hide an item of
clothing under
the wardrobe.
Children guess
C’est une
veste verte?
(is it a green
jacket?)
Plenary/
consolidation
Show the illustrations from the story. Discuss Pairs share their
how the dark images match the French word
changed
sombre. Can they think of antonyms for dark?
sentences.
Rest of class
Play antonym mimes
sombre (hands across face), clair (eyes wide have to guess
open, fingers spread out)
the word and
grand (reach for sky), petit (crouch down),
word type that
beau (thumbs up),mauvais (thumbs down).
has been
changed.
Play ‘Change the meaning’ game.
Activities
Identify noun,
preposition
and adjective
in sentences.
Agreement of
adjectives.
Distribute sentences from the text. Pairs
decide on changes to the sentence and draw
a picture to match their new sentence. They
use dictionaries to find new words.
Literacy : antonyms sombre/claire, grand/petit, beau/mauvais
Make a display of changed sentences and pictures
Evaluation
New
Language
Read the story. Stop at the end of each
sentence. Children take it in turns to change
the meaning. They choose to change the
preposition, the noun or the adjective. The
rest of class have to guess which word has
changed and what kind of word it is.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES


KAL
ICT Links
www.linguafun.eu Click on mon uniforme scolaire for
activities to revise items of clothing
IWB Change the meaning activity
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 5
Medway
Lesson five
Une Histoire Sombre……………..
Resources/preparation: Une Histoire Sombre, numbered sentences from text, large pieces of paper
Framework
refs
O5.3
Listen
attentively
and
understand
more
complex
phrases and
sentences.
L5.3
Write words,
phrases and
short
sentences
using a
reference
source
Learning
Objective
Write a new
version of a
familiar story
using
dictionaries to
help find new
words.
Introduction/
Warm up
Play game using
preposition
mimes.
(see week 3)
Activities
Play ‘Pass the sentence’ parcel.
Pass round a bag containing word
cards from a sentence in the text
while music plays. When music
stops child takes out one card and
reads it aloud. Place words in
middle. Children discuss with their
partner what the sentence is.
Explain that you are going to create
a class version of the story with a
new title Une Histoire Claire . You
will keep the first sentence the
same, except for the word sombre.
How will the story change if we use
the adjective clair? What might
we find at the end of the story?
(something dark and scary to
contrast with the rest of the book)
Distribute numbered sentences from
the story to pairs/groups. They use
dictionaries to help them change the
sentences which they write on large
pieces of paper.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES


Literacy – traditional stories, antonyms
DT – make a pop-up book of Une Histoire Claire.
Evaluation
Plenary/
consolidation
Put the changed
sentences on the
board in number
order.
Read the new
story. Does it
make sense? Do
we need to
change any
words?
ICT Links
KAL
Add an e
to clair to
agree with
une
histoire.
New
Language
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 5
Medway
Lesson six
Resources/preparation
Framework
refs
L5.1
Re-read
frequently a
variety of
short texts
L5.3
Write words,
phrases and
short
sentences
using a
reference
Une Histoire Sombre, mini whiteboards, copies of text of Une Histoire Sombre
Learning
Objective
To be able to
read,
understand
and act out a
story.
Introduction/
Warm up
Dictionary Bingo
Children use
dictionaries in
pairs to choose
a four letter
French word
which they write
on their
whiteboards.
You call out
letters of the
alphabet,
children cross
out letters in
their word that
you say.
Winner is first
pair to have all
letters called
out.
Plenary/
consolidation
Activities
Have a list of prepositions, nouns, adjectives and
phrases listed on the board. Throw soft ball
around room, each catcher has to add a
word/phrase to a story eg. Dans – la cantine– il
y avait – un singe – bleu. – Devant – le singe – il
y avait – une souris – verte. (Support children by
seating in mixed ability pairs – ball passes to pair
who discuss which word/phrase they will choose)
Display the sentences created in the previous
week. Check for any additional word changes in
order to make the new story make sense.
Sort the class into 2 groups. One group will be
working on Une Histoire Sombre, the other group
will work on Une Histoire Claire.
Distribute numbered sentences from each story
to pairs who have to create a mime based on that
sentence. (Make sure you also have a copy of
the new story on the board),
When pairs have created their mime they should
practise reading the new and old version of the
story.
KAL
Choose two
confident
children to
alternately read
a line from Une
Histoire Sombre
and Une
Histoire Claire.
Pairs act out
their mime for
each sentence.
Ensure tone of
voice matches
the text.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES ICT Links


Literacy – drama
Children read their created story to younger children.
Evaluation
Children could create a powerpoint text/video
presentation of Une Histoire Claire.
New
Language