Tu aimes le sport?

Year 5 have been giving their opinion about sports and talking about their favourite and least favourite sports.

We first learnt the names of the sports with choral repetition and some flashcards games featuring our French buddy Toto.

The Framework for Languages states that in Year 5, children should understand and express likes and dislikes and join in a simple conversation using good pronunciation. So we decided to take a class survey on the most and the least favourite sport in French.

In the following lesson, Y5 extended their sentences by justifying their opinions. First, we did human sentences to reinforce the word order and then the children wrote their own sentences.

Listen to these super long and amazing sentences! What a fantastic pronunciation Year 5!

Homme de Couleur

Today Year 6 have read the poem "Homme de couleur" by Léopold Sédar Senghor.

We read a brief biography and understand why Léopold Sédar Senghor is an important writer and politician in the history of Sénégal and why we were going to read one of his poems to celebrate
Black History Month.

Before reading the poem, we looked at the different verbs we use in French in expressions like "I am cold, I am hungry, I am scared".

Then, the students had to listen to the story and put the sentences of the poem in the correct order.

We checked our work and read aloud the sentences in French, then, translated them in English.

The children loved the story and demonstrated great reading strategies by looking at pictures, decoding unknown words and trying to understand the meaning of the sentences even if they didn´t know all the vocabulary or verbs.

They also looked at the different verb tenses in the poem and inferred which verbs where in past, present or future tense. In addition, they noticed the different endings for the je form and the tu form. In year 6 we are learning a lot about conjugation!

It was a fun lesson and Year 6 loved the poem and understood the message straight away.

We hope you like the poem too!

Quel est ton caractère?

This term, Year 6 have been doing some description activities.
The National curriculum for KS2 Languages states that children should understand feminine and masculine forms and the conjugation of high-frequency verbs. In addition, children should know how to apply the basic grammar they have learnt to build sentences.

We first looked at the different forms of the adjectives for masculine and feminine and learn how to build sentences using Je suis and Je ne suis pas looking at our negative sandwich structure.

Then, the children wrote these fantastic descriptions of theirselves using Clare Seccombe's pillar portrait template. 

But Year 6 not only know the 1st person singular of the verb être! They applied understanding of the term conjugation to the verb in the 2nd and 3rd person singular. They wrote some famous people descriptions and read them to the class, who had to guess who the famous person was!