Key learning points

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

Keywords

• 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 misconception