Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 3
Medway
Lesson one Favourite lessons
Resources/preparation: Early Start French 2 DVD, flashcards of subjects, mini flashcards for pairs
Framework
refs
Learning
Objective
5.2
Understand
and express
simple
opinions
To learn the
French words for
school subjects.
Introduction/
Warm up
Play game revising
J’aime, je n’aime pas
Using known vocab –
food/sport
Plenary/
consolidation
Activities
Watch DVD section 14
‘ Quelle est ta matière ?’
Use flashcards of subjects and
echoing activities to learn new words
with phrases :
‘j’aime, j’adore, je n’aime pas,
je déteste’
Play true or false – sometimes
showing the wrong activity picture
with the correct symbol, or wrong
symbol correct activity.
Play pairs – lay out on table, take in
turns to turn over, say subject, take
the cards if you find a pair.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
 Use French subject words on displayed class timetable
Evaluation
Where have you
heard the sound
before?
technologie
bonjour
rouge
j’aime
KAL
New
Language
le sport (sport,
P.E.)
la technologie
(technology,
computing)
l’anglais (m)
(English)
le français
(French)
les maths (f)
les
mathématiques
la matière
préférée
(favourite
subject)
ICT Links
www.linguafun.eu Click on à l’école for sound file of school
subjects and activities to learn and revise words
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 3
Medway
Lesson two
Resources/preparation: subject flashcards, ppt Ma Matière Préférée, teacher’s text, pupil sheet, bingo grids
Framework
refs
Learning
Objective
Introduction/
Warm up
5.3
Listen
attentively and
understand
more complex
phrases and
sentences
To be able to
understand the
main points from
a text about
school subjects.
Numbers 60 -100
Get children to draw
bingo grid on
whiteboards and put in
even numbers from 60
– 100. (or use bingo
grid sheets).
Plenary/
consolidation
Activities
Review subject vocabulary.
Introduce actions (Mime the activity)
les maths – count in 5’s
le sport – jump up and down
le français – say French alphabet
la technologie – mime typing on
keyboard
l’anglais – mime ‘heads and
shoulders’ song.
Call out j’aime… pupils perform action
in happy way, je n’aime pas….
Perform action as if they hate doing it.
Read through
the text again.
Children mime
the actions in the
appropriate way.
Teacher reads text of ppt ‘Ma matière
préférée’ (don’t show powerpoint at
this stage) or play sound file.
Children listen and tick once for
j’aime, twice for j’adore, x once for je
n’aime pas, xx for je déteste on
subject pictures.
Show ppt
Children check number of ticks and
crosses.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
 In any lesson ask children e.g. ‘tu aimes l’art?’
 ICT – survey – find out favourite school subjects
Evaluation
ICT Links
ppt Ma Matière Préféré
KAL
New
Language
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 3
Medway
Lesson three
Resources/preparation: ppt Ma Matière Préférée, jumbled text cards
Framework
refs
5.1
Prepare and
practise a
simple
conversation,
reusing familiar
vocabulary in
new contexts
5.2 Understand
and express
simple opinions
5.2
Make simple
sentences and
short texts
Learning
Objective
To be able to
rearrange
jumbled
sentences into
the correct
order.
Introduction/
Warm up
Play a game to revise
colours and classroom
objects
E.g. hide two
flashcards/have 2
words hidden on the
board - guess the
object and the colour
Get all pupils to draw a picture to
represent one of the subjects.
Show a flashcard saying
‘Moi, j’aime les maths – et toi Marie?’
Marie replies ‘Oui, j’aime les maths’ if
she has the same picture, ‘Non, j’aime
l’anglais’ if she has drawn something
different.
Move round the room, asking and
answering the questions.
Play mime the
activity (see
week 2)
Show ppt from last week, rereading
text. Arrange jumbled sentences
around the room for groups to sort out
in given time then re-jumble for next
group, moving round the room.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

Evaluation
Plenary/
consolidation
Activities
ICT Links
Ppt Ma Matière Préférée
KAL
New
Language
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 3
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Lesson four
Resources/preparation:
Framework
refs
05.1
Prepare and
practise a
simple
conversation
reusing familiar
vocabulary and
structures in a
new context.
flashcards of characters, rooms and classroom objects, IWB Cluedo
Learning
Objective
To compare
French and
English names.
Introduction/
Warm up
Revise rooms
Give mini flashcards
of rooms to pupils.
Call out a name of a
room (e.g. la cantine)
Pupils with picture
hold it up. Vary
pace, repeating
same one several
times in a row to try
and catch pupils out.
Swap pictures.
Activities
Plenary/
consolidation
Do any children
in the class
have French
equivalent
names?
How would a
French native
speaker
pronounce your
name?
KAL
New
Language
dans (in)
avec (with)
In most
Talk about French names,
European
compare with English names.
countries the
Play Cluedo – There is a thief in
given name
school, who is it, where are they
becomes before
hiding and what have they
the family name.
In other cultures,
taken? Introduce flashcards of
especially E.
characters
Asia (and
Gabrielle, Isabelle, Martine,
Hungary), the
Alain, Dominique, François.
IU5.2
family name
Hide a person, room and
Recognise
comes first.
similarities and
classroom object.
differences
Team guessing game
between places
‘C’est Gabrielle avec le stylo
dans la cantine ?’
Award points for each correct
choice.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
ICT Links
www.linguafun.eu Click on Bonjour, ça va Activity 3 for
 Intercultural Understanding: Find out the meaning of French and
examples of French names
English names. Compare similar names in different languages.
IWB Cluedo
 Find out lists of common names of cultures of pupils in the class.
 PSHE get children to find out why they were given their names.
Evaluation
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 3
Medway
Lesson five
Resources/preparation: subject flashcards
Framework
refs
05.1
Prepare and
practise a
simple
conversation,
reusing
familiar
vocabulary
and
structures in
new
contexts.
Learning
Objective
To be able to
ask and
answer
questions
about favourite
subjects.
Introduction/
Warm up
Revise ‘c’est cool’
‘c’est super’
‘c’est facile’
‘c’est difficile’
Say an activity and a
reason.
If children agree they
put their thumbs up.
If they disagree
thumbs down.
Activities
Introduce new classroom
subjects. Invent new mimes to
go with the new subjects.
Introduce ‘Ma matière
préférée c’est... parce que
c’est facile/difficile/ennuyeux’
etc.
paired conversation
‘Ma matière préférée c’est
.......’
‘Pourquoi ?’
‘C’est facile, et toi ?’
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

Produce display of favourite subjects with speech bubbles ‘c’est facile’
etc add to sports display
Evaluation
Plenary/
consolidation
Play mime activity
with new subjects
(j’aime, je n’aime
pas – mime in
happy/unhappy
way).
ICT Links
KAL
New
Language
la gym (gym)
l’éducation
physique (f)
(P.E)
l’art/le dessin
(art/drawing)
la géo
(geography)
l’histoire (f)
(history)
la musique
(music)
les sciences
(f) (science)
l’éducation
religieuse (f)
(R.E.)
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 3
Medway
Lesson six
Resources/preparation
Framework
refs
05.4
Prepare a
short
presentation
on a familiar
topic.
Early Start French 2 DVD, IWB timetable activity , Singing French CD
Learning
Objective
To prepare a
short
presentation
about a school
timetable.
Introduction/
Warm up
Revise days of
week
Singing French
lundi, mardi
Activities
Watch DVD again. Compare English and
French classroom and teachers (teachers
usually dressed very informally in France).
Compare French school day (9-4.30) and
curriculum (Early Start p.140).
Introduce phrase ‘Le mardi, on a les
sciences’ We have science on Tuesdays.
Plenary/
KAL
consolidation
Feedback on Le Mardi
On
timetables.
Le mardi on a
l’art. J’aime
l’art parce que
c’est cool.
Use IWB activity to sort a school timetable.
Get pupils to invent their own timetable. Add
symbols to indicate preferences.
Work in pairs.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES ICT Links

Evaluation
IWB timetable activity
Tuesdays
(no word
for on in
this case)
On a
We have
(literally
‘one has’)
New
Language
On a