Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 2
Medway
Lesson one Les Passe-temps
Resources/preparation: Early Start 2 DVD, soft ball/cube, flash cards of activities
Framework
refs
Learning
Objective
05.1
Prepare and
practise a
simple
conversation,
re-using
familiar
vocabulary
To be able to
express a simple
opinion about
hobbies and
activities.
05.2
Understand
and express
simple
opinions
Introduction/
Warm up
Revise using
J’aime, je n’aime pas
with food items
Throw soft ball –
j’aime les bananes
et toi Marie ?
Je n’aime pas les
bananes, j’aime les
oranges, et toi Paul?
Plenary/
consolidation
Activities
Watch DVD section 13.
Echoing activities with flashcards of
activities and smiley/sad faces.
Class respond with thumbs up
thumbs down.
Repeat warm up activity expressing
likes and dislikes (limit choice to 6
practised activity phrases) – le
football, le roller,
la natation, la voile, regarder la
télé.
Listen out for key
sound in
natation
équitation
Where have you
heard them
before?
marron
crayon
ans
onze
Echo activity – say
activities and
familiar words,
children repeat
with tapping desk
action if they hear
the sound.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

Evaluation
KAL
J’aime le
football
J’aime le
fromage
J’aime
regarder la
télé (I like
watching
television)
J’aime faire
du cerfvolant
(I like flying
kites)
New
Language
Le football
Le roller (roller
skating)
La natation
(swimming)
L’équitation
(horse-riding)
La voile
(sailing)
Le char à voile
(sand yacht)
Faire du cerf
volant (to go
kite flying)
Regarder la
Télé (watch TV)
ICT Links
www.linguafun.eu Click on Les Sports > presentation 1 in
both parties introduce sports
Presentation 2 introduces “J’aime..”
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 2
Medway
Lesson two
Resources/preparation: flashcards of activities, foods/classroom objects, IWB activity
Framework
refs
05.1 Prepare
and practise a
simple
conversation
re-using familiar
structures in
new contexts
05.2
Understand
and express
simple opinions
L5.2
Make simple
sentences and
short texts
L5.3
Write words,
phrases and
short sentences
using a
reference
source
Learning
Objective
To be able to
have a simple
conversation
asking and
answering
questions about
activities.
Introduction/
Warm up
Pass round a bag filled
with flashcards of
food/classroom
objects.
Play French music,
when the music stops
child holding bag
takes out a picture and
says
“Dans le sac il y
a…une pomme”etc.
(In the bag there is..)
Revisit the activity phrases from last
week.
Introduce miming actions for each
flashcard. Say the word and do the
action, guess the word from the action etc
Get each child to choose one of the
activities that they like and draw it on a
piece of paper and write the phrase e.g
.“j’aime le football”.
Teacher holds a flash card and says
“Moi, j’aime la natation. Tu aimes la
natation, Marie?” Child responds ‘Oui,
j’aime la natation’ if her picture is the
same. ‘Non, je n’aime pas la natation’ if
different.
Children circulate the room asking and
answering questions in the same way.
Play activity as a game.
Play the French music, children circulate,
when music stops they ask the nearest
child.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
 Play paired snap saying activity as card is played.
 Literacy: Dictionary skills – look up French words (and German/Spanish
etc.) for other sports and pastimes and compare them to English.
Evaluation
Plenary/
consolidation
Activities
Use the IWB
matching activity
to compare
sports words in
other European
languages.
(or use flash
cards and words
on the board)
KAL
Many of the
words for different
sports are similar
in English, French
and other
European
languages.
New
Language
le tennis
le rugby
le cricket
le judo
le football,
el fútbol (Spain)
der Fußball (Ger)
le tennis
el tenis(Spain)
der Tennis (Ger)
In German
common nouns
begin with a
capital letter.
ICT Links
IWB – Match up the French, Spanish and German words
to the activity picture
www.linguafun.eu click on Les sports
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 2
Medway
Lesson three
Resources/preparation: Early Start DVD, flashcards of sports
Framework
refs
Learning
Objective
05.2
Understand
and express
simple
opinions
To be able to
give reasons as
to why they like
or dislike a sport.
L5.2
Make simple
sentences and
short
statements
Introduction/
Warm up
Watch the DVD clip
again for
reinforcement.
Plenary/
consolidation
Activities
Introduce new phrase from clip
‘c’est cool’ thumbs up
Teach new words and phrases :
pourquoi? (why)
c’est super - two thumbs
facile – easy (hands on hips)
difficile – hard (fold arms)
Teach additional
reason phrases
use flashcards of sports
CT - ‘Aimes-tu le football?’
Pupil - ‘Oui’ or ‘Non’
CT - ‘Pourquoi?’
Pupil – parce que ‘c’est cool/facile
/super/difficile’ etc.
C’est amusant
(it’s fun)
Wave hands in
air
Use dictionaries to look up favourite
sports.
Get children to produce a labelled
picture of their favourite sport with a
speech bubble ‘J’aime le football.
C’est cool/ c’est super/facile’ etc. for
display
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
 Produce a class display of favourite sports
 Maths – survey of favourite sports
 Use facile/difficile during other lessons as a self-assessment tool
Evaluation
ICT Links
C’est ennuyeux’
(it’s boring)
Facial gesture
and use of voice
KAL
New
Language
c’est cool
c’est super
facile
difficile
pourquoi?
Parce que
ennuyeux
amusant
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 2
Medway
Lesson four
Resources/preparation:
Framework
refs
IU5.1
Look at
further
aspects of
their
everyday
lives from the
perspective
of someone
from another
country.
flashcards of sports
Learning
Objective
To understand
how frustrating
it is for a nonnative speaker
to be able to
express
themselves in a
new country.
Introduction/
Warm up
Revise directions –
hide a flashcard of a
sport in the
classroom. Child at
door, rest of class
have to guess where
he/she has to move
to get to the card.
‘C’est à gauche?’
Non
‘Tout droit?’
Oui, allez tout droit.
Stop!
‘C’est à droite ?’
etc
Activities
Imagine someone new has joined
the class who only speaks French.
You have to explain the rules of a
sport using only the French you
know and gestures/mime and
pictures.
Which words/phrases do we know
that would be useful?
Revise :
Numbers
Il y a – there are
Directions – à droite etc.
Compass points to label a court
Au sud, au nord etc.
Pairs work on presentation of the
rules of a sport.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
 PSHE seeing things from other people’s point of view
Evaluation
ICT Links
Plenary/
consolidation
Select pairs to
present the
rules of their
sport to the
class.
Discuss how
frustrating it is
not to be able to
express yourself
clearly when
you have limited
language
knowledge.
KAL
New
Language
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 2
Medway
Lesson five
Resources/preparation: sports object flashcards, ppt Mon vélo est blanc poem, IWB rhyming words, poem text
Framework
refs
05.3
Listen
attentively
and
understand
more
complex
words and
phrases
Learning
Objective
Listen to a
poem. Pick out
key words
making
sensible
guesses based
on the word
clues.
Introduction/
Warm up
Use food cards
j’aime (thumbs up)
j’adore (hands
waving)
je n’aime pas
(thumbs down)
je déteste (stamp
feet)
Activities
Plenary/
consolidation
Call out a rhyming
word. Children
have to answer
with a word that
rhymes.
Use IWB activity
to sort words
which have the
same end sound.
KAL
New
Language
le cyclisme
(cycling)
Introduce new sport activity
Cycle –
word :
origin
Le cyclisme – can they guess
Greek
Kyklos
the sport ? Discuss words in
English that use the same
circle
word root (cycle, cyclist,
cyclone)
Show flashcard and introduce
un vélo (bike)
Show ppt of Mon vélo poem
reading (or listening to sound
file)
Which words do they
recognise? Guess the
meaning using word clues.
Give out copy of text to pairs
and ask them to find the
rhyming words.
ICT Links
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
ppt Mon vélo est blanc, IWB rhyming words
 Literacy – link into word level activity locating word roots and their
origins
Evaluation
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 2
Medway
Lesson six
Resources/preparation
Framework
refs
L5.2
Make simple
sentences
and short
texts.
05.2
Understand
and express
simple
opinions
letter sorting activity, sport flashcards
Learning
Objective
Reorder the
text of a letter
to Père Noël
(Father
Christmas)
so that it makes
sense.
Introduction/
Warm up
Revise months
of the year –
children jump
up when it is
their birthday.
Recite
backwards on
clap/forwards
on clap etc.
Activities
Show object flashcards :
un cheval (horse)
un vélo (bike)
un ballon (football)
une raquette (tennis racquet)
une batte (cricket bat)
which sport do they link with?
Sorting text activity. Robert has written a
letter to Père Noël, but he has got a bit mixed
up. Can you sort out his letter so that it
makes sense and he gets the things he
wants?
Paired activity sorting text.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES ICT Links

Write your own letter to Père Noël
Evaluation
Plenary/
consolidation
Ask the children
what they
would like for
Christmas.
Je voudrais un
cheval.
J’aime…..
KAL
New
Language