Year 11 - French
La vie quotidienne : perfect and imperfect tenses, relative clauses and negation
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Unit Summary
This unit focuses on mastering the use of reflexive pronouns and verbs. It also revisits perfect and imperfect tenses, relative clauses and negation, and introduces the past participles of modal verbs. There is a further focus on avant de + infinitive and après avoir + past participle.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to discuss everyday life in the past, combining imperfect and perfect tenses, negation and relative clauses.
Key Notes
- Using the perfect tense and imperfect tense together enables us to express ongoing and isolated events in the past.
- Using qui, que, où and quand in relative clauses provides more information and adds complexity.
- Using a range of negative structures adds subtlety and complexity to descriptions and opinions.
- Combining different tenses allows students to give a more developed answers to conversation questions.
Vocabulary To Learn
- relative pronoun: a pronoun that introduces a relative clause
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Answers to conversation questions should only be given in the same tense as the question.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
Using the perfect tense and imperfect tense together enables us to express ongoing and isolated events in the past. Using qui, que, où and quand in relative clauses provides more information and adds complexity.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'relative pronoun'
a pronoun that introduces a relative clause. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: Answers to conversation questions should only be given in the same tense as the question. Correction: Students should develop answers to conversation questions in order to give additional information and detail. Using different tenses allows students to give a more detailed and complex answer.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Après avoir préparé : 'après avoir' + past participle Study Guide
- Avant de passer un examen : prepositions with the infinitive Study Guide
- Ils m'inspirent : extended writing Study Guide
- Ils s'entendent bien : reflexive pronouns Study Guide
- J'ai dû attendre : irregular past participles, modal verbs present and past Study Guide
- Je sortais la poubelle quand ... :perfect, imperfect, relative clauses, negation Study Guide
- On a fait les courses : irregular past participles, perfect tense modal verbs Study Guide
- On est prêt à tout : avant de, après avoir Study Guide
- On fait les magasins et les courses : extending vocabulary Study Guide
- On peut acheter : present tense modal verbs Study Guide
- Qui a fait le ménage ? Perfect tense, relative clauses, negation Study Guide
- Une journée dans la vie d'un groupe francophone : reflexive pronouns Study Guide
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