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Summer time: understand a longer text

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 understand and respond to a letter in French about summertime activities.

Key Notes

  • Regular practice of sound-symbol correspondences is important to ensure good pronunciation.
  • To say 'play' with sports use 'jouer' + 'à', e.g. 'je joue au tennis' ('I play tennis').
  • To say 'do' with sports, use 'faire' + 'de', e.g. 'je fais du sport' ('I do sport'). We call this the partitive article.
  • The partitive article is also used to mean 'some' (an unspecified amount) with food and drink.
  • For masculine nouns, use 'du', for feminine use 'de la' and for nouns starting with a vowel or silent 'h' use 'de l''.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • faire: French verb meaning 'to do, doing' or 'to make, making'
  • jouer: French verb meaning 'to play, playing'
  • partitive article: refers to parts of things; often means 'some' in English

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • To say 'I'm eating pizza' in French it's 'je mange pizza'.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

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

Regular practice of sound-symbol correspondences is important to ensure good pronunciation. To say 'play' with sports use 'jouer' + 'à', e.g. 'je joue au tennis' ('I play tennis').

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

French verb meaning 'to do, doing' or 'to make, making'. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.

3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.

Mistake: To say 'I'm eating pizza' in French it's 'je mange pizza'. Correction: In English we often leave out the article, but in French we must use the partitive article when referring to an unspecified amount of food or drink. So we would say: 'Je mange de la pizza' because 'pizza' is feminine.

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