What people did: plural -er verbs in the perfect tense
Learning outcomes
I can identify and formulate verbs in the perfect tense in both the singular and plural forms to understand what people did.
I can distinguish the hard [c] with the soft [c] sound and the SSC (sound-symbol correspondence) [ç].
- Year 8
What people did: plural -er verbs in the perfect tense
Learning outcomes
I can identify and formulate verbs in the perfect tense in both the singular and plural forms to understand what people did.
I can distinguish the hard [c] with the soft [c] sound and the SSC (sound-symbol correspondence) [ç].
Lesson details
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Key learning points
- The letter 'c' is naturally soft (sounds like 's') before 'e' or 'i'. It is hard (sounds like k) before 'a', 'o' or 'u'.
- The 'c' is sometimes softened before 'a', 'o' or 'u' with a cedilla: 'ç'.
- The verbs 'partir' and 'quitter' both mean ‘to leave’ in English: 'je quitte la maison', 'je pars dans deux heures'.
- Use 'quitter' followed by a direct object and 'partir' followed by a preposition or an adverb of time (or on its own).
- Use the perfect tense to talk about an action that happened in the past: avoir + past participle.
Keywords
[c/ç] - pronounced softly as in ‘ici’ before ‘e’ or ‘i’, but as a hard sound before ‘a’, ‘o’ and ‘u’, as in ‘content’; [ç] is as in ‘français’
Perfect tense - a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past, e.g., I listened, you played
Past participle - verb that forms the perfect tense, usually together with a present tense form of ‘avoir'
Common misconception
The letter 'c' always makes the same sound in French.
The letter 'c' is naturally soft (sounds like 's') before 'e' or 'i'. It is hard (sounds like k) before 'a', 'o' or 'u'. The 'c' is sometimes softened before 'a', 'o' or 'u' with a cedilla: 'ç'.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match each French day of the week to its English equivalent.
Q2.Which of these sentences is in the perfect tense?
Q3.Write the 'tu' form of the verb 'avoir' in the present tense.
Q4.Put the words in the correct order to make a sentence in the perfect tense.
Q5.Which of these is the correct past participle of the verb 'faire'?
Q6.Which of the following sentences correctly uses the word 'tout', 'toute', 'tous' or 'toutes'?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the letter ‘c’ to how it sounds in these examples.
