KS2 · French · Year 6
School: Instructions in class
School: 'avoir', 'être' , 'il y a' and regular verbs in the present
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can greet different people, understand simple class instructions and ask/answer ‘How are you?’.
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can greet different people, understand simple class instructions and ask/answer ‘How are you?’.
Key learning points
- The final letter of a word is often silent in French due to SFCs (silent final consonants) and SFes (silent final 'e's).
- To greet a teacher we use 'bonjour' and to greet a classmate we use 'salut'.
- Learning classroom instructions as a rhyme helps us to remember when to give the teacher our full attention.
- The verb 'être' means 'to be' or 'being'. Use the verb être with adjectives to describe people: il est heureux.
- An adjective must agree with the gender of the noun it describes; this is called adjective agreement: elle est heureuse.
Words to know
- SFC
- silent final consonant: silent letter (d, s, t, x) at the end of a word
- SFe
- silent final ‘e’ at the end of a word
- être
- French verb meaning ‘to be, being’
Common mistakes
To say 'and you' I use 'et tu ?'
To say 'and you' we use the emphatic pronoun 'toi'; 'et toi ?'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- There are rhymes and songs in this lesson, so you might want to warm up the students' singing voices first. Perhaps singing the French oral and nasal vowel sounds.