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Activities at home: negation

What I and others do: 'faire' singular persons, qu'est-ce que

Unit Summary

In this unit, pupils use singular 'faire' and 'jouer' to talk about activities and sports. They extend sentences, using subordinate clauses with 'quand'. and use 'qu'est-ce que' and quel/quelle to ask what sports others do. Pupils further embed knowledge of a range of previously learnt sounds.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to form positive and negative sentences with singular forms of 'faire' to describe what you and others do, and don't do, at home.

Key Notes

  • Numbers 1-31 in French are tricky to remember and so they must be practised regularly.
  • The verb 'faire' means both 'to do, doing' and 'to make, making'.
  • 'I do, make' is 'je fais', 'he does, makes' is 'il fait' and 'she does, makes' is 'elle fait'.
  • Negative sentences in English have 'don't' before the verb. In French we 'sandwich' the verb between 'ne' and 'pas'.
  • For example: 'je fais le lit' (positive) and 'je ne fais pas le lit' (negative).

Vocabulary To Learn

  • negative: expresses negative meaning, showing that something is not true, does not happen or does not exist
  • ne ... pas: used around a verb to make the sentence negative: je ne fais pas l'activité

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • To make sentences negative in French, you need to put the equivalent of 'don't' before the main verb.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

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

Numbers 1-31 in French are tricky to remember and so they must be practised regularly. The verb 'faire' means both 'to do, doing' and 'to make, making'.

2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'negative'

expresses negative meaning, showing that something is not true, does not happen or does not exist. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.

3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.

Mistake: To make sentences negative in French, you need to put the equivalent of 'don't' before the main verb. Correction: To make sentences negative in French, you 'sandwich' the main verb between 'ne' and 'pas'. There are two elements which need to be in place. For example: 'je fais le ménage' (positive) 'je ne fais pas le ménage' (negative).

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