Year 9 - French
Occupied France: perfect tense with verbs like 'sortir' and 'choisir'
Historical events: perfect tense
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils consolidate the perfect tense with a range of known grammar and vocabulary. A key focus is revisiting prepositions of place and movement, consolidating past participle knowledge and contrasting present and perfect tenses.Inversion questions are also practised.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use the perfect tense, including past participles like 'sorti' and 'choisi' in the context of the Vichy regime in the 1940s.
Key Notes
- [ain/in] is pronounced as in 'train' and [aim/im] is pronounced as in 'faim'.
- The nasal sounds [aim/im] and [ain/in] become non-nasal sounds when they come before a vowel.
- During WW2, after Paris was captured by Germany, France was divided into different zones.
- Use the perfect tense to talk about past specific/one-off events/actions. Use part of 'avoir/être' + a past participle.
- The past participles of verbs like 'sortir' and 'choisir' both end in -i. To form, remove -r from the infinitive form.
Vocabulary To Learn
- past participle: verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with the auxiliary verb
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- The letters 'ain' and 'aim' are always pronounced the same way.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
[ain/in] is pronounced as in 'train' and [aim/im] is pronounced as in 'faim'. The nasal sounds [aim/im] and [ain/in] become non-nasal sounds when they come before a vowel.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'past participle'
verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with the auxiliary verb. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: The letters 'ain' and 'aim' are always pronounced the same way. Correction: Before a consonant or at the end of a word, [ain] and [aim] are nasal but before a vowel, they are non-nasal sounds.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Concorde the history: 'sortir', 'choisir', 'venir' verbs, -ion/-ation nouns Study Guide
- Concorde the history: prepositions of place and movement Study Guide
- The French colonial empire: more practice of verbs like 'entendre' and 'venir' Study Guide
- The French colonial empire: perfect tense with verbs like 'venir' and 'entendre' Study Guide
- The French Resistance: perfect tense with verbs like 'sortir' and 'choisir' Study Guide
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