Year 11 - French
On fait les magasins et les courses : extending vocabulary
Popular culture: La vie quotidienne
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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 understand texts about shopping, mastering topic-specific vocabulary and you can complete a role-play on this topic.
Key Notes
- Listening and reading texts can be exploited to enrich our topic-specific vocabulary.
- Account for every word when translating from French, but remember there might be a different number of words in English
- In role-play keep answers short and focus on accurately conveying meaning to cover each bullet point.
Vocabulary To Learn
- role-play: a task with a situation and prompts to ask and answer questions, simulating a conversation
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- The same amount of words are used when translating between French and English.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
Listening and reading texts can be exploited to enrich our topic-specific vocabulary. Account for every word when translating from French, but remember there might be a different number of words in English.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'role-play'
a task with a situation and prompts to ask and answer questions, simulating a conversation. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: The same amount of words are used when translating between French and English. Correction: Due to the nature of the languages, there may be differences in how some words or ideas are translated e.g. I need is 'j'ai besoin de' in French. More or fewer words might be necessary to complete an accurate translation.
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
- La vie quotidienne : perfect and imperfect tenses, relative clauses and 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 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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