Projets pour le week-end: extended writing and speaking
I can use a range of impersonal verbs in speaking and writing about plans for the weekend with friends.
- Year 10
- AQA
Projets pour le week-end: extended writing and speaking
I can use a range of impersonal verbs in speaking and writing about plans for the weekend with friends.
Lesson details
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Using a range of impersonal verbs to your writing and speaking adds variety and complexity.
- Plan a speaking task answer carefully, pre-rehearse, and immediately repeat the task to improve performance.
- When a speaking scenario involves talking to a single friend, use the 'tu' form of the verb.
Keywords
Impersonal verb - a verb that doesn’t refer to a particular person or thing, and whose subject is most often ‘il’ (it)
Idiom - a saying which does not always have a literal meaning and which does not always translate directly into another language
Common misconception
Idioms are the same in different languages.
Idioms can be specific to a language, culture or group of people. They are often impossible to translate directly. Their use adds variety and authenticity to students' work but it is necessary to discuss the idiom carefully when it is taught.
Equipment
Mini whiteboards and pens would be useful if available.
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.How can 'il faut' be translated into English?
Q2.Write what type of word follows these impersonal verb structures: il vaut mieux, il vaut la peine de.
Q3.Write what type of word is used after the verb 'il manque'.
Q4.Put the times of day in order, starting with the earliest.
Q5.When used as an adjectival phrase, how might 'pas mal' be translated?
Q6.Match the French and English vocabulary.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Complete the description: 'il faut' is an verb.
Q2.Match the French idiom to its meaning in English.
Q3.Translate the phrase : I miss my friend, I want to see her.
Q4.Translate : this weekend I am going to go cycling.
Q5.Match the vocabulary together.
