Places in town: 'aller' 1st and 3rd persons singular, 'au' and 'à la'
Learning outcomes
I can use 'je vais' and 'il, elle va' with the preposition 'à' to say and understand where I and others go.
I can recognise and pronounce [ou].
Places in town: 'aller' 1st and 3rd persons singular, 'au' and 'à la'
Learning outcomes
I can use 'je vais' and 'il, elle va' with the preposition 'à' to say and understand where I and others go.
I can recognise and pronounce [ou].
Link copied to clipboard
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Switch to our new teaching resources now - designed by teachers and leading subject experts, and tested in classrooms.
These resources were created for remote use during the pandemic and are not designed for classroom teaching.
Lesson details
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- The sound symbol correspondence [ou] sounds like the 'ou' in 'nous', meaning 'we in French.
- The verb 'aller' means to go, going. 'Je vais' is I go, I am going, 'il,elle va' is he, she goes, is going.
- The 's' in 'vais' is usually a SFC, but when it is followed by a vowel, it is pronounced like the English 'z'.
- To express 'to (the)...' we use 'au' or 'à la' depending on whether the noun which follows, is masculine or feminine.
Keywords
[ou] - sounds like the [ou] in 'nous', meaning 'we' in French
Je vais - French verb meaning 'I go', or 'I am going'
Il, elle va - French verb meaning 'he, she goes' or 'he, she is going'
Au, à la - preposition ‘à’ meaning to, at combined with ‘le’ or ‘la’ to mean ‘to the’ and ‘at the’
Common misconception
à + le = à le.
When à is followed by 'le' it becomes 'au'.
To help you plan your year 7 french lesson on: Places in town: 'aller' 1st and 3rd persons singular, 'au' and 'à la', download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 7 french lesson on: Places in town: 'aller' 1st and 3rd persons singular, 'au' and 'à la', download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
Explore more key stage 3 french lessons from the Places to go: singular 'aller' unit, dive into the full secondary french curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
Licence
Lesson video
Loading...
Some of our videos, including non-English language videos, do not have captions.
Starter quiz
6 Questions
to give, giving
to listen, listening
to go, going
to show, showing
to think, thinking
to ask, asking
I
you (singular)
he
she
moment
liste
effort
fenêtres
Exit quiz
6 Questions
the train
the park
the day
Saturday
the school
the checkout
when ?
where ?
how ?