Year 4/5/6 Notre école Lesson 3
Lesson Objective
To talk about where different members of staff work within the school.
Framework objectives covered within the lesson.
O 4.2, O4.3, L 4.3,
O 5.2, O 5.3 L 5.2 L 5.3
L 6.4, LLS Using a dictionary.
Many KAL and LLS objectives are also covered in this lesson.
Success Criteria
I must know how to say the words for different people’s jobs within the school.
I should be able to say where each person works.
I could say where people do not work.
I might even be able to say where other professionals work.
Song
To the tune of ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush.’
Je lis dans la bibliothèque
Je mange dans la salle à manger
Je joue dans la cour
Je jardine dans le jardin
Je travaille dans la salle de classe
Starter
On the IWB, using spotlight tool to identify different places around the school. Ask Quest ce tu fait dans la salle à manger?
Children to respond with “je mange dans la salle à manger”.
Main Teaching
Flash card teaching to introduce 4 job descriptions from within the school: la directrice, la secretaire, les instites, la bibliotécaire.
1. say the word + a mime, ask children to repeat in various ways.
2. la directrice? Chi ldren to respond with “oui” or “non” and give correct answer - “c’est la secretaire “ (some maybe able to use ce n’est pas...)
3. La directrice ou les instites?
4. Qui est celle - ci? or Qui est les personnes ici?
On IWB, model forming sentences. Drag and Drop pictures into the sentence and read the sentence together, ie:
La directrice travaille dans la salle de profs.
When forming a sentence with the plural les instites drag the
–nt suffix onto the end of travaille (travaillent). Take suggestions as to why, (the

plural ending for written verbs). Draw attention to the fact that this does not alter the sound of the word, (when spoken, the suffix is silent).
Ask children to come up and drag and drop their own sentences. Class to read the sentence.
When possible introduce inserting ne and pas around the verb, ie:
La directrice ne travaille pas dans la bibliothèque.
Activities
TA led group (lower ability). Play a game of Pelmanism, matching person’s job to where it is carried out.
If an incorrect pair is cho sen child to respond with “C’est faux!” and replace the cards. If a correct pair is chosen, child to respond with the matching sentence -
“les profs travaillent dans les salles des classes”, and keep the cards.
Independent group. Play Pelmanism. When an incorrect pair are chosen child to respond with the matching sentence -
“Les profs ne travaillent pas dans la bibliothèque”, and replace the cards. If a matching pair is chosen, child to respond with matching sentence - “la bibliotécaire travaille dans la b ibliothèque”, and keep the cards.
Extension group (working with teacher). Use a dictionary to find the french for different proffessions and the places in which they work, ie mechanic/garage, doctor/hospital. Write information in a sentence, ie:
Le médecin travaille dans l’hôpital.
Discuss the use of un and une in the dictionary and how this needs to be changed when writing the sentences.(un = le and une = la).
As a further challenge complete a table to show the spellings of both the masculine and the feminine professionals. (In a following session, this could lead onto further work into the rules for spelling masculine and feminine forms of a word.)
Plenary
Peer assessment. Refer back to the success criteria for the lesson. For each criteria children indicate whether they think their partner is confident
(thumb up), OK (wavering hand) or not very confident (thumbs down). Ask for volunteers to demonstrate their knowledge.

Context of the lesson.
The aims of this unit, notre école, is to learn to talk about our school in order to create a presentation to send to our partner school in France. The
Photostory software will enable us to put our own narration into the presentation.
Objectives:
Lesson 1 - To be able to name the main rooms/areas of the school
(classroom, library, dining room, playground, garden, staffroom etc.)
Children use language dictionaries to find french words for different places around the school.
Lesson 2 - To be able to say what we do in each room/area of the school (je joue dans le cour, je travaille dans la salle de classe etc.) Key vocabulary taught - je joue, je travaille, je jardine, je lis, je mange.
Lesson 3 - To talk about where different members of staff work within the school. Key vocabulary taught - la secreta ire, la directrice, la bibliotécaire, les instites.
Lesson 4 - To talk about which lessons we take and which of them we like.
Key vocabulary taught -
Revision of j’aime and je n’aime pas.
Lesson 5/6 - To use the language we have learnt to talk about our school.
In these sessions children will practice putting the language they have learnt into a short spoken passage. Use of dictaphones will allow the teacher to assess what language the children are confident in using.
Children will suggest suitable sentences to accompany each picture in the
Photostory and each child will be given the chance to record some narration onto the presentation.
Useful resources
Flashcards are an essential resource. There are many commercially produced packs but Clip art provides most pictures you will need.
Mini flashcards to be used in a variety of games, especially Pelmanism.
Finger puppets - great for those children who lack confidence. If it is the puppet who is speaking they seem to lose their inhibitions!
Simple language dictionaries for the children to use.
A detailed French dictionary for your own use.
A book of French verbs.
A good selection of songs and games to practice the language without the children necessarily realising! There are many books and CDs available to buy. J’aime Chantez and Chantez Plus Fort are both very good.

The QCA Scheme of Work unit plans. You may not necessarily want to stick to them but they do give some very good ideas for games and songs.
Teachers Talking French Course - A 4 CD language course for teachers which provides you with all the language you will need to direct your class in the target language. Highly recommended.
Useful websites www.primarylanguages.org.uk
(training zone) www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/talk (cultural videos) www.ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/languages (great interactive big books and unit plans based around traditional stories) www.wsgfl.westsussex.gov.uk
(cross curricular resource packs) www.espressohome.co.uk
(good video links). www.bbc.co.uk/schools/french www.newburypark.redbridge.sch.uk/langofmonth (school website introducing children who speak languages from across the world). www.mamalisa,com/world/index.html
(songs from around the world). www.etwinning.net
(register and set up school links across Europe). www.epals.com
(to find pen pals from around the world).