KS2 French curriculum

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Year 6

Languages and me: I am secondary ready

6 lessons

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  • Cultural spotlight
  • Listen and respond to songs and rhymes

Description

In this unit, pupils review their own linguistic resources, creating a ‘language passport’ to share on transition to secondary school. They explore aspects of culture in the new language they are learning, including its representation in French sounds, words and structures.

This unit anchors pupils’ linguistic knowledge in the broader context of their own personal linguistic heritage and the wider world’s rich linguistic resources, as an appropriate bridge between primary and secondary language learning, building pupil readiness continue their linguistic journey into secondary school. The cultural knowledge in this unit is broad in scope, exploring how culture is represented in language itself – its sounds, words and structures, as well as more overtly in places and celebrations.

  1. Identity: my languages
  2. Which language? Bonjour in multiple languages
  3. The world: colours and cultures
  4. The world: no word for word translations
  5. Codes and patterns
  6. Language explorers: Francophonie

  • Pupils have secure knowledge of the most common sound-symbol correspondences.
  • Pupils know how the grammatical concepts of gender and number effect nouns, adjectives, determiners, possessive adjectives and verbs.
  • Pupils have a growing repertoire of around 400 words.

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