People and lifestyle: Ma famille
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Why this why now
Pupils will build on their already sound KS3 knowledge of adjectives across this unit, ensuring accuracy in both word order and gender and number agreements. Also refocusing on the use of articles and possessive adjectives, this unit enables pupils to apply the new adjectival rules alongside familiar language and in familiar contexts, talking about family relationships. This unit prepares pupils for following units which will focus on comparative and superlative use of these adjectives.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know the definite articles le, la, les, the indefinite articles un, une, des and the partitive articles du, de la, des.
- Pupils know the possessive adjectives mon/ma/mes, ton/ta/tes, son/sa/ses.
- Pupils know that person nouns change according to gender and number.
- Pupils know that adjectives often have different masculine, feminine and plural forms.
- Pupils know that adjectives often come after the noun but that some are positioned before the noun.
Threads
Why this why now
Pupils will build on their already sound KS3 knowledge of adjectives across this unit, ensuring accuracy in both word order and gender and number agreements. Also refocusing on the use of articles and possessive adjectives, this unit enables pupils to apply the new adjectival rules alongside familiar language and in familiar contexts, talking about family relationships. This unit prepares pupils for following units which will focus on comparative and superlative use of these adjectives.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know the definite articles le, la, les, the indefinite articles un, une, des and the partitive articles du, de la, des.
- Pupils know the possessive adjectives mon/ma/mes, ton/ta/tes, son/sa/ses.
- Pupils know that person nouns change according to gender and number.
- Pupils know that adjectives often have different masculine, feminine and plural forms.
- Pupils know that adjectives often come after the noun but that some are positioned before the noun.
People and lifestyle: Ma famille
This unit revisits definite, indefinite and partitive articles, possessive adjectives, as well as adjective agreement and positioning rules. Pupils will learn one further adjective agreement rule. Lessons also further practise liaison and silent final letters.
6 lessons in unit
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