Year 8 - French
A typical day: perfect tense, 'jouer', 'faire', jobs
Everyday activities: preposition 'de', partitive, frequent -IR and -RE verbs
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Unit Summary
Pupils embed irregular -ir and -re verbs. They distinguish between jouer à, jouer de and faire de, and practise 'de' as a partitive article (du, de la, des, de l'). They use de, d in negatives, expressions of quantity and learn adverb positioning. SSCs -s-, th, -ill-, -ille, -aill-, -ail are taught.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use a range of vocabulary and structures including the perfect tense in the context of a school day.
Key Notes
- Regularly revisiting SSCs supports accurate spelling and pronunciation, building confidence.
- To form the perfect tense with -er verbs, use the present tense of 'avoir' and a past participle ending in 'é'.
- 'Which' agrees with the gender and number of the noun it describes; 'quel', 'quelle', 'quels' and 'quelles'.
- The preposition 'à' follows 'jouer' with sports, 'de' follows 'jouer' with musical instruments and 'faire' with sports.
- To make job nouns feminine, add -e, change the spelling from -eur to -rice/euse, or just change the article..
Vocabulary To Learn
- sound-symbol correspondence: relationship between letters and their sounds, referred to as SSC
- perfect tense: a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past e.g. 'I said', 'she played'
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Only change your main verb into a past verb in French like we can do in English to form the past tense, e.g. I do → I did.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
Regularly revisiting SSCs supports accurate spelling and pronunciation, building confidence. To form the perfect tense with -er verbs, use the present tense of 'avoir' and a past participle ending in 'é'.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'sound-symbol correspondence'
relationship between letters and their sounds, referred to as SSC. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: Only change your main verb into a past verb in French like we can do in English to form the past tense, e.g. I do → I did. Correction: In French you need two verbs in the perfect tense for it to make sense; the correct part of 'avoir' and the past participle.
More Lessons In This Unit
- A typical day: partitive, liaison, perfect tense questions Study Guide
- Food and drink: 'boire' singular, write about own eating routines Study Guide
- Food and drink: definite and partitive articles Study Guide
- Food shopping: partitive articles 'du, de la, de l', des' Study Guide
- Shopping and other activities: 'faire' and 'de', questions with 'quels, quelles' Study Guide
- What is it like? Singular verbs like 'dire' and 'prendre', adjectives Study Guide
- When, where and how? Singular verbs like 'sortir', 'venir', adverb placement Study Guide
- Where is that? prepositions with 'de' Study Guide
- Who likes doing what? 'jouer' with 'à' and 'de' Study Guide
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