As part of our Year 6 French Fashion topic, we worked in groups to pull apart a text called Paris - la capitale de la mode?
We each had different roles as part of our group work: to try and pick out cognates, to focus on adjectives, to pull out all the proper nouns that do not need much translation and then building the sentences back up to make sense in English.
This is how you too can show understanding of the 'gist' of a text - you do not need to understand every single word, just show you can follow it with some understanding. Focus on what you can understand, rather than stress about what you cannot.
"It's really hard but I love a challenge!"
"It's fun working in groups when we all have a different role in the team"
"I feel like I actually understand a lot more than first thought when we break it down like this"
