Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 6
Medway
Lesson one
Promenons-nous dans les bois...........
(songs and stories)
Resources/preparation: Dans la forêt lointaine (text, translation and actions), animal flashcards (ou phoneme), soft cube
Framework
refs
Learning
Objective
Introduction/
Warm up
05.1
Prepare and
practise a
simple
conversation,
re-using familiar
vocabulary and
structures in
new contexts.
Use knowledge
of known words
and phrases to
help understand
an unfamiliar
song.
Ask children which
names of animals they
know in French.
Introduce le loup (wolf).
Get children to choose a
French name (revise
names from term 3
activities).
Throw soft cube with
animal pictures (including
wolf around room,
children have to
introduce themselves
matching their voice to
their animal.
Bonjour, je m’appelle
Henri, j’ai deux ans, j’ai
trois soeurs et deux
frères, j’habite dans le
bois et je suis une petite
souris. Comment
t’appelles-tu ?
Every time a wolf speaks
the rest of class hide
eyes behind hands.
05.3
Listen
attentively and
understand
more complex
phrases and
sentences
IU5.2 recognise
similarities and
differences
between places
Learn a French
round.
Revise the phoneme ou
with animal words
le loup (wolf), la poule (chicken),
le mouton (sheep), le coucou (cuckoo)
le kangourou (kangaroo), le hibou (owl)
Read or play
Dans la forêt lointaine
Which words do they recognise?
Can they work out the meaning of
unfamiliar words?
Some children may recognise it uses
same tune as the English version.
‘Twas on a summer’s evening
I walked the forest through
When suddenly I heard it
A sweet and low cuckoo
Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo,
cuckoo (x2)
Teach actions (see resource file)
Divide the class in
two. One half
sings the English
cuckoo song, the
other half sings the
French version.
Then swap over.
KAL
Phoneme
ou
loup
poule
mouton
coucou
kangourou
hibou
New
Language
un loup (wolf)
un coucou
(cuckoo)
un kangourou
(kangaroo)
un hibou (owl)
compare:
en haut de
(on top of)
du haut de
(from the top
of)
On entend
Literally:
One hears
Learn the song, try singing it as a
round (start by learning just the
chorus)
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
 Geography: compare forest environments in England and France
(IU5.2)
 Music – singing rounds
Evaluation
Plenary/
consolidation
Activities
ICT Links
http://descomptines.free.fr/chansons/ (sound file and text of
Dans la forêt lointaine song)
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 6
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Lesson two
Promenons-nous dans les bois…
(songs and stories)
Resources/preparation: traffic light flashcards, Promenons-nous dans les bois book and soundfile, ‘ou’ phoneme flashcards
Framework
refs
O5.3 Listen
attentively and
understand
more complex
words and
phrases
L5.1
Re-read
frequently a
variety of
short texts
Learning
Objective
Listen to an
unfamiliar story
and identify
known words.
Introduction/
Warm up
Revise sports activities
Teach adverb
lentement (slowly)
vite (quickly)
Use traffic light
flashcards. Call out
sport activity, children
do the action.
If you show green
traffic light they
perform the action
quickly, if you show the
amber light they
perform the action
slowly, if you show the
red traffic light they
freeze frame the
action.
Plenary/
consolidation
Activities
Say to the children ‘Promenons-nous
dans les bois.’ (Let’s go for a walk in the
woods)
Use the ou phoneme flashcards. Hold
them with picture facing you .
Show a tiny bit of a flashcard, or flick card
quickly. Ask the children, “Regardez,
qui est-ce ?” (Look, who is it ?)
Children guess “C’est le loup?” etc
Re-read the
story stopping
before the end
words in the
rhyming
sections, get
children to say
the missing
word.
KAL
Many French
adverbs use the
suffix ‘ment’
lentement
(slowly)
rapidement
(fast)
doucement
(softly)
New
Language
lentement
(slowly)
vite
(quickly)
Promenonsnous (let’s
go for a
walk)
Introduce the book “Promenons-nous..”
Read the text (or play sound file) and let
the children enjoy the illustrations. Don’t
worry at this stage about translating the
whole text. Can they remember the
words for the animals? (les cochons –
pigs, le lapin – rabbit, le canard – duck, le
mouton – sheep).
Re-read the book stopping at each picture
of eyes and ask “Qui est-ce?”
Re-read the text and get children in pairs
to write as many French words as they
can that they know just from listening to
the sound. Reveal the text and get
children to count correct words.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES


Use lentement andvite with instructions throughout the day eg asseyez-vous
lentement, mettez-vous en rang (line up), vite.
Literacy – adverbs and suffixes
Evaluatio
ICT Links
www.linguafun.eu click on Les sports, Les animaux for revision activities
Ppt Promenons-nous (translation notes under each page
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 6
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Lesson three
Promenons-nous dans les bois… (songs and stories)
Resources/preparation: Promenons-nous book, Le Loup song and translation,
Framework
refs
O5.1
Prepare and
practise a
simple
conversation,
reusing familiar
vocabulary in
new contexts
O5.3
Listen
attentively and
understand
more complex
words and
phrases
L5.1 re-read
frequently a
variety of short
texts
Learning
Objective
Introduction/
Warm up
Understand and
Revise clothes
use action words. words then play
a variation of
Learn a French
Grandmother
song and identify went to market.
familiar
First child says
vocabulary.
Je porte un
short,
Second child
says
Je porte un
short, et un
chapeau and
so on.
Plenary/
consolidation
Activities
Teach action words from the text of the book.
Promenons-nous (let’s take a walk – walk on the
spot)
Restons (let’s stay – statue)
Bougeons (let’s move – dance)
Mangeons (let’s eat – mime eating)
Retournons (let’s go back – change direction)
Play miming game.
Introduce ‘bougeons pas’ (Let’s not move)
Listen to Le Loup song (web link sound file)
Can they recognise the words from the book?
Talk about the meaning and teach the song.
Play a game. Select a child each time you sing
the song to answer the question “Que fais-tu?”
(what are you doing?) with a sport action in a
wolf’s voice.
E.g. je fais du football, je fais du cricket, je fais du
rugby, je fais de la natation. Class then hum/la
the song doing the action. (Use the traffic light
cards to make children go faster/slower or freeze
frame the action)
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
 Use the action words as a warm-up activity for PE/at the start of lessons.
Arrange lines
from the song in
the wrong order
on the board or
use the IWB
resource.
Timed
challenge to
reorder the
song.
KAL
Nous promenons
(we take a walk)
Promenons-nous!
(imperative – let’s
take a walk!)
(No ‘nous’
needed to make
the other verbs
imperative as
they are not
reflexive)
Vous asseyez
(you sit down –
plural)
Asseyez-vous!
(imperative – sit
down!)
ICT Links
www.linguafun.eu Mon uniforme scolaire
http://www.hello-world.com/French/song/loup.php
(Le Loup song – words and sound file)
IWB – jumbled lines from Le Loup song
Evaluation
New
Language
Restonsnous
Bougeonsnous
Mangeonsnous
Retournonsnos
Que fais-tu?
Je fais
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 6
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Lesson four
Promenons-nous dans les bois… (songs and stories)
Resources/preparation:
Framework
refs
L5.3
Write words,
phrases and
short
sentences
using a
reference.
Promenons-nous dans les bois, text of story with gaps.
Learning
Objective
To be able to
find and write
missing words
from a familiar
text.
Introduction/
Warm up
Revise weather
phrases. Divide
class into teams.
Whisper different
weather phrase to
each team leader.
Children then
draw weather
symbol on team
members backs –
continue round
team, last team
member has to
say the weather
phrase.
Plenary/
consolidation
Activities
Revise action words from last week.
Re-read story book.
Discuss the meaning of the first sentence
‘Trois petit feux dans la nuit.’
(Three little lights in the night)
‘C’est parti!’ (Here we go!)
‘Nom d’un loup!’ (dash it!)
Check that the children have used the
illustrations and known words to
understand the unfamiliar text.
Give the children a copy of the text with
missing words. Get them to fill in the
missing gaps by copying words from a
list.
Ask the children to identify which words
the pigs would say.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES


Produce a storyboard of the text with captions and speech/thought bubbles.
ICT – create a powerpoint presentation of the story.
Evaluation
Get children to
come to board and
draw a scene from
the story. Add a
thought or speech
bubble.
Children have to
decide what the
animal is
saying/thinking.
KAL
New
Language
Les feux
(lights)
La nuit
(night)
C’est parti!
Here we
go!
Nom d’un
loup!
Eg ‘C’est parti!’
‘Promenons-nous
dans les bois’
‘Loup y es-tu?’
‘Oui!’
‘Vite, retournons
dans la nuit.’
‘Nom d’un loup !’
ICT Links
www.linguafun.eu Quel temps fait-il? For weather revision
activities
(see resource file for additional songs/poems with
weblinks to sound files)
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Lesson five
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 6
Promenons-nous dans les bois… (songs and stories)
Resources/preparation: Animal sounds in English and French
Framework
refs
L5.3
Write words,
phrases and
short
sentences
using a
reference
source
Learning
Objective
Write a
French song
using
familiar
vocabulary.
Introduction/
Warm up
Play Which one is
missing? with
words learned in
year 5.
Write a word on
the board,
children close
eyes, rub out one
of the letters,
children have to
guess which letter
is missing. (Use
mini whiteboards
so that all class
take part with a
guess.)
Activities
Compare animal sounds in English and
French (resource file)
Revisit the song from week one
Dans la forêt lointaine
Explain that they are going to work in pairs
to write their own song about animals. They
can use the tune of Dans la forêt eg
Les cochons et le lapin,
Le petit kangourou
Le mouton et le chien
Le canard et le loup,
Le loup, le loup,
Le canard et le loup,
Le loup, le loup,
Le canard et le loup.
Or another tune they know, eg Frère
Jacques.
They can include animal sounds in their
songs eg
Monsieur Chien x2
Dit ‘Ouah! Ouah! ’ x2
Madame Chat répond,x2
‘Miaou, miaou, miaou ! ‘x2
(use dictionaries to find unfamiliar words)
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES



Music – song writing. Add percussion/sound effects to go with their
songs.
ICT – record songs, create a powerpoint presentation with sound
Compare common names given to pets in French and English
Evaluation
Plenary/
consolidation
Get children to
perform their
songs
KAL
New
Language
Monsieur
Chien dit
(Mr Dog
says)
Madame
Chat répond
(Mrs Cat
replies)
ICT Links
http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbo
tt/animal.html
multilingual list of animal sounds in different languages
Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 6
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Lesson six
Promenons-nous dans les bois… (songs and stories)
Resources/preparation
Framework
refs
IU5.3
Compare
symbols,
objects or
products
which
represent
their own
culture with
those of
another
country
flashcards or items of clothing, objects for preposition game
Learning
Objective
To understand
why countries
choose animal
symbols to
represent
them.
To revise
words and
phrases.
Introduction/
Warm up
Compare
national animal
symbols of
France and
England
E.g.
French cockerel
(see web link for
background
information)
English lion (3
lions on English
football and
cricket team
badges)
Plenary/
consolidation
Activities
Hold an end of year revision quiz. Set up teams in
same way as lesson one term 5 with team members
introducing themselves. To make it more fun you
could ask the children to sort themselves out into
animals and when they want to buzz with an answer
they need to make their animal sound!
KAL
New
Language
Announce
points totals
and find
les gagnants
(the winners)
Play ‘The price is right’. Have items of clothing with
different prices in euros, teams have to name the item
and guess the right price.
Play ‘Guess the name’ spell out a French name,
teams buzz in and guess the name, they must spell it
in full to get a point.
Play ‘C’est combien?’ Hold up two or more prepared
prices. Teams have to add up the bill correctly.
Play ‘The preposition game’ Give each team an
object. Call out a preposition. They have to put the
object somewhere to represent the preposition and
say a phrase. Eg Le crayon est devant Peter.
EMBEDDING OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES ICT Links

Make a display of sports team badges using animal symbols.
Evaluation
http://www.languedocfrance.info/06141212_cockerel.htm
http://www.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/motto.html
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Y5 French 30 minute Lesson Plans – Term 6