The Objectives

• We chose three objectives from the national curriculum guidelines as the aims for the session.

• 3.1 – Listen and respond to simple stories. • 3.2 – Recognise and respond to words. • 4.2 – Listen for specific words.

The Story

• We chose to tell the story of the Billy Goats Gruff to the children.

• We tried to ensure that we used simple language and repeated phrases so that the children could join in.

• The children were asked to repeat the phrase “Ne me mange pas.”

Lesson Plan

• Introductions in French• Read the story and ask the children to guess

what the story was, using masks. • Introduce children to key characters and ask

them to repeat. • Re-read the story with the children joining in

with some key vocab.

Lesson Plan

• Children to complete matching activity using key words.

• To complete activity as a whole group, matching words to images.

• Played ‘beat the teacher’ to assess pupil learning.

Il etait une fois trois Boucs Bourrus. Ils veulent traverser le petit pont.

Le plus petit des Boucs Bourrus commencea traverser le pont. Il recontre le troll. “Ne me mange pas! Voici un bouc plus grand.”

Le moyen des Boucs Bourrus commence a traverser le pont. Il recontre le troll. “Ne me mange pas! Voici un bouc plus grand.”

Le grand des Boucs Bourrus commence a traverser le pont. Il recontre le troll. “Ne me mange pas! Je suis trop gros.”

Le plus grand des Boucs Bourrus pouse le troll. Le troll tombe dans l’eau. PLOUF!!

Le trois Boucs Bourrus vecurent heurex.

The ResourcesMasks – used when telling the story. We gave them to a few children in the group so that they could be one of the characters.

Large images – These images were used to practice the language skills of the children, and were also used to play ‘beat the teacher.’

The Resources

Cue cards – These were given to the children and were used for many different language consolidation activities such as ‘word matching’ and a ‘pairs’ game. The children were encouraged to say the language out loud when they were matching the images.

Reflection on the Lesson.

• On the whole the lesson went well and the children were really enthusiastic to learn a new language and counted the number of new words they learnt at the end of the session.

• The children appeared engaged with the story and picked up the key language well.

Positives of the lesson.

• The use of cue cards in the lesson was effective. This meant that we could adapt the activities given to the children depending on how quickly the children completed the task.

• Also, we feel the adaptions that we introduced in the lesson demonstrated constant appraisal of the children’s learning.

• The different tasks introduced also allowed the children plenty of different ways to consolidate their learning.

What we would change?• If we were to teach the lesson again, there would be

a few aspects we would change. • We would plan more activities for the children to

do, this would mean that we could have stuck to our plan.

• Also, I would have ensured there were more resources available before the lesson, as we had prepared resources for the first group but the second group had to use the same cue cards which meant they were a little unorganised.