French Year
4
La Belle au Bois Dormant
Learning Objectives
Key questions/New
Learning
Pupils will be able to:
Le prince
Le sort
Cent ans
La belle (au bois dormant)
La méchante fée
La haie d’épines
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Listen & respond to words &
actions
Recognise key words in a story
Understand that stories from
different cultures may be similar
Translation in order:
The prince
The spell
Hundred years
The beautiful
princess/Sleeping Beauty
The wicked fairy
The hedge of thorns
La belle au bois dormant
literally means “The
beautiful princess in the
sleeping wood”
(la/belle/oh/bwah/dormohn)
Assessment Opportunities
KS2 Framework Objective
Oracy 4.2 4.3
Comments
Literacy
Lesson 1
Date
Activities
Tell pupils they will be learning a version of
Sleeping Beauty – La Belle au Bois Dormant – in
French. Ask them what happens in the version they
know. Tell them how the new version differs and
that it is a story/song.
Introduce nouns using picture flashcards.
Say each new noun in French – without showing the
picture flashcards. Do actions/mime to help convey
meaning. When pupils guess meaning correctly,
show the picture flashcard.
Say each noun again, pupils repeat and place
flashcards on board under 2 columns – for
masculine nouns and feminine nouns (Ask pupils
why the nouns are under 2 different columns.
Take cards down and play miming/pictionary game
with pupils or another game from “Ideas for
language games”.
Show a pupil one of the cards, they mime/draw it
and other pupils try to guess the mimed/drawn word
by saying it in French.
Daily Activity
Practise the words – gender/singular or plural
Intercultural Understanding
4.3
Knowledge about Language
Resources
Phonic
Focus
At end of unit: pic/word
flashcards, power point
with sound,
story/song words E and
F, nos in tens - activity
Silent ‘t’ in
sort and
dormant and
silent ‘h’ in
haie
Nouns in French are
either masculine or
feminine:
Masculine - un (a/one),
le (the - singular), les
(the - plural)
Feminine - une (a/one),
la (the - singular), les
(the - plural)
M
prince
sort
(100) ans
F
belle (au
bois
dormant)
(méchante)
fée
haie
d’épines
Language Learning Strategies
2, 4