Year 10 - French
La vie en ville : extended writing and speaking, photo description
My neighbourhood: Là où j'habite
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Unit Summary
This unit develops knowledge of the imperfect tense by focusing on the irregular verbs avoir, être and faire. The prepositions sans, pour and avant are also revisited, along with the use of emphatic pronouns (such as moi, toi, lui) after prepositions.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to describe a town in detail, using the imperfect and present tenses. you can describe a photo and draw comparisons between two photos.
Key Notes
- We use present tense for describing a photo, but a range of tenses, including imperfect, to extend the discussion.
- Use 'plus' and 'moins' followed by adjectives and 'plus de' and 'moins de' followed by nouns for contrasts.
- Immediate repetition of a speaking task, with reduced support, improves performance.
- It's important to plan to incorporate a range of past, present and future tenses when writing an extended text.
Vocabulary To Learn
- imperfect tense: tense used to describe how things were or used to be in the past, or to say what was happening
- adjective: a word that gives more information about a noun
- noun: word for a person, place, or thing
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Only the near future and future tenses can be used to refer fo the future.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
We use present tense for describing a photo, but a range of tenses, including imperfect, to extend the discussion. Use 'plus' and 'moins' followed by adjectives and 'plus de' and 'moins de' followed by nouns for contrasts.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'imperfect tense'
tense used to describe how things were or used to be in the past, or to say what was happening. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: Only the near future and future tenses can be used to refer fo the future. Correction: It is possible to refer to the future using the conditional mood: phrases like 'je voudrais' and 'il voudrait' which are followed by an infinitive. This creates the idea of what someone would like to do, clearly referring to possible future events.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Chez moi, chez toi : prepositions and emphatic pronouns 'moi', 'toi' ... Study Guide
- Découvrir d'autres pays : prepositions and emphatic pronouns 'nous' and 'vous' Study Guide
- Découvrir de grandes villes : prepositions and emphatic pronouns nous and vous Study Guide
- La transformation des villes : imperfect of être, avoir and faire Study Guide
- La vie quotidienne ici et ailleurs : extended speaking and writing Study Guide
- Ma ville avant : imperfect of 'être', 'avoir' and 'faire' Study Guide
- Ma ville, mon pays : prepositions and emphatic pronouns lui, elle, eux, elles Study Guide
- Où habiter : extended writing Study Guide
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