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Year 10 - French

Où habiter : extended writing

My neighbourhood: Là où j'habite

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 write about different places to live using a writing frame for support.

Key Notes

  • 'Moi', 'toi', 'lui', 'elle', 'nous', 'vous', 'eux', elles mean me, you, him, her, us, you and them as emphatic pronouns.
  • It is important to plan both the ideas and language needed and to think about structure when writing a longer 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
  • conditional: verb form used to mean what could or would happen under certain conditions
  • emphatic pronoun: used to emphasise a person, or when the pronoun stands alone, or after certain prepositions

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Sentences such as 'when I was little, I would do the shopping with my mother' can be translated by using both the imperfect tense and the conditional mood.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.

'Moi', 'toi', 'lui', 'elle', 'nous', 'vous', 'eux', elles mean me, you, him, her, us, you and them as emphatic pronouns. It is important to plan both the ideas and language needed and to think about structure when writing a longer text.

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: Sentences such as 'when I was little, I would do the shopping with my mother' can be translated by using both the imperfect tense and the conditional mood. Correction: In French, when writing or translating sentences about what used to happen, all verbs should be in the imperfect tense. 'Used to' and 'would' (meaning habitually) are translated by the imperfect.

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