WWI and daily routine in French KS2: write a letter from 'un poilu': a French soldier from WWI.

This is a sequence of activities using stories, song, role play and research to plan and write an authentic looking letter in French, from a French soldier in the trenches in WWI. I taught this alongside the Year 6 topic on WWI- enriching their knowledge of WWI from a French perspective.
These activities:

• provide plenty of listening and speaking practice in preparation for reading and writing
• teach ‘daily routine’ in the present tense
• recycle previously learned language such as weather, food and clothes in a new context
• link French to the KS2 history curriculum
• encourage creativity through writing and finding ways to make letters look authentic

I recommend the resource, La premiere guerre mondiale 1914-1918 produced by Sandra 1972 on this site for, among other tasks, teaching items in a soldier’s backpack.