Year 11 - French
Qui a fait le ménage ? Perfect tense, relative clauses, negation
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 conversation about everyday household tasks using the perfect tense, relative pronouns and negatives.
Key Notes
- The perfect tense is formed by combining part of 'avoir' or 'être' (the auxiliary verb) and a past participle.
- 'Qui' means 'who?' in a question, but it is the relative pronoun 'who', 'which', 'or 'that' in the middle of a sentence.
- When the relative pronoun relates to the object of the sentence, we use 'que' (who/whom, that or which), not 'qui'.
- In most negative phrases in the perfect tense, the negative structure goes around the part of 'avoir' or 'être'.
Vocabulary To Learn
- relative pronoun: a pronoun that introduces a relative clause
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- 'Qui' always means the question 'who?'.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
The perfect tense is formed by combining part of 'avoir' or 'être' (the auxiliary verb) and a past participle. 'Qui' means 'who?' in a question, but it is the relative pronoun 'who', 'which', 'or 'that' in the middle of a sentence.
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: 'Qui' always means the question 'who?'. Correction: When used in an interrogative sense, 'qui ?' means 'who?'. As a relative pronoun, 'qui' introduces more information about the subject in the main clause and can be translated as 'who', 'which' or 'that'.
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 fait les magasins et les courses : extending vocabulary Study Guide
- On peut acheter : present tense modal verbs Study Guide
- Une journée dans la vie d'un groupe francophone : reflexive pronouns Study Guide
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