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The children learn to respond to and give simple instructions, learn and use vocabulary for items commonly found in a school bag, and begin to build simple sentences using, 'I have a ... ' and 'I don't have a... ' constructions and simple connectives, 'and' and 'but' . By the end of the unit, the children use all they have learned, including rules on adjectival position, to write short descriptions in French and to give a presentation on what is in their school bag.\u003Cbr>A circle of life in French (2 lessons) Source new vocabulary from the dictionary and apply the appropriate indefinite article (un/une) for animals, in French. Build a range of sentences from the model, selecting appropriate vocabulary. Create a sentence in the negative form. |\n| 4 | Portraits-describing in French (5 lessons)\u003Cbr>This unit is about describing someone’s appearance, including eye and hair colour and characteristics such as how happy or serious they are. The unit teaches the position of adjectives in a sentence and how the adjective changes to 'agree' with the noun it describes (masculine, feminine, singular, plural) . Starting with the subject of painting and the Louvre in Paris to build cultural awareness, the children complete the unit by writing a description of one of their friends in French.\u003Cbr>Clothes-getting dressed in French (5 lessons)\u003Cbr>Learning about 'les vêtements' children learn to recognise several items of clothing, understand the different forms of the indefinite article and possessive adjective as well as practice using the correct adjectival agreement and describe what people are wearing. | French numbers, calendars and birthdays (5 lessons)\u003Cbr>Children learn French numbers 1-31, the days of the week, months of the year, dates and seasons through maths and songs and class surveys; they research of dates of French festivals and revise the unit by having a traditional French birthday celebration in the classroom. | French food-miam, miam! (5 lessons)\u003Cbr>French food, cafés, ordering and menus-‘Yum Yum’-or‘Miam, Miam’! This unit introduces food vocabulary and revises numbers to 100, this time in the context of money and prices. The unit encourages children to develop their language detective skills and confidence with practical conversational French. |\n\n\n| 5 | French monster pets (5 lessons)\u003Cbr>Using monsters and body part vocabulary, this unit revises noun gender, using the correct article to go with nouns, making adjectives agree with the noun they describe and sentence constructions, placing the adjectives in the correct place. The children look at an authentic French text to identify key facts about an animal and characteristics of a factual text, and work towards writing paragraphs to describe their own monster creations. 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