Cover lesson · MFL · Year 7 · Beginner
LNF: Numeracy → Understanding the number system helps us to represent and compare relationships between numbers and quantities → The number system
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What this practises: place value and reading, writing, ordering and rounding numbers up to the thousands, in French. French builds 70 to 99 with sums (70 is “sixty-ten”, 80 is “four twenties”), so pupils must think about how each number is made. They decode the building blocks, turn 12 real facts about Wales from French words into digits, put them in a place value table, order and round them, write numbers in French, and play a listening game in pairs. The facts are real; this builds towards the numbers, dates and statistics in GCSE French.
Print: this sheet, one per pupil, and the stimulus sheet “Le pays de Galles en chiffres”, one between two. No computers or calculators are needed.
Run: 8 min Step 1, the building blocks · 12 min Step 2, facts into digits · 10 min Step 3, place value, ordering and rounding · 10 min Step 4, writing numbers in French · 10 min Step 5, the pair game. Total 50 minutes. Steps 1 to 4 are written; Step 5 is spoken in pairs, so expect some noise.
Collect: this sheet.
Quick checks: Step 2 digits: A 1085, B 886, C 893, D 1283, E 1826, F 1896, G 1400, H 285, I 74 000, J 2026 and 96, K 58, L 307 and 1805. Step 3: mountains in order 1085, 893, 886; dates in order 1283, 1805, 1826, 1896, 2026. Rounding: 1085 to the nearest 100 is 1100; 886 to the nearest 10 is 890; 285 to the nearest 100 is 300. The worked example has every answer.
A French-speaking family is visiting Wales and has a guidebook page called Le pays de Galles en chiffres (Wales in numbers). Every number is written in words. You will work out each number, check that it makes sense, and become an expert in the way French builds its numbers.
Key words:
Read Part A of the stimulus sheet. Then write the sum and the number in digits for each French number. Two are done for you.
| French | Sum | Digits |
|---|---|---|
| soixante-quinze | 60 + 15 | 75 |
| quatre-vingt-dix-sept | 4 × 20 + 17 | 97 |
| soixante-dix-huit | ||
| soixante et onze | ||
| quatre-vingts | ||
| quatre-vingt-six | ||
| quatre-vingt-treize | ||
| quatre-vingt-dix-neuf |
Why could quatre-vingt-dix confuse an English speaker who hears it quickly?
Read the 12 facts in Part B. Write every number in bold as digits, and write what it is about in English.
| Fact | Number in digits | What it is about (in English) |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
| B | ||
| C | ||
| D | ||
| E | ||
| F | ||
| G | ||
| H | ||
| I | ||
| J | ||
| K | ||
| L |
(a) Put these 4 numbers from Step 2 into the place value table.
| Fact | Ten thousands | Thousands | Hundreds | Tens | Ones |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A (Yr Wyddfa) | |||||
| H (Offa’s Dyke Path) | |||||
| I (Principality Stadium) | |||||
| L (the aqueduct’s length) |
(b) In fact L, the aqueduct is 307 metres long. What is the 0 doing? What would happen if you left it out?
(c) Put the 3 mountains in order, highest first: ______________________________
(d) Put these dates in order, earliest first: Conwy castle, the aqueduct, the Menai bridge, the mountain railway, the bigger Senedd.
(e) Round: 1085 to the nearest 100 = ______ 886 to the nearest 10 = ______ 285 to the nearest 100 = ______ 1826 to the nearest 1000 = ______
Use Part A to write these numbers in French words. Watch the spelling rules for vingts, cents and mille.
| Number | In French |
|---|---|
| 73 (pupils in a year group at a small school) | |
| 80 (minutes in a long lesson) | |
| 92 | |
| 300 | |
| 450 | |
| The year you were born |
Partner A reads the 8 numbers in the left column of Part C aloud in French, in any order. Partner B covers the stimulus sheet and writes each one in digits. Then swap. Check your answers together and score 1 point for each one right.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers I heard |
Which number was hardest to hear, and why?