Summer time: understand a longer text
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can understand and respond to a letter in French about summertime activities.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Regular practice of sound-symbol correspondences is important to ensure good pronunciation.
- To say ‘play’ with sports use ‘jouer’ + ‘à’, e.g. ‘je joue au tennis’ (‘I play tennis’).
- To say ‘do’ with sports, use ‘faire’ + ‘de’, e.g. ‘je fais du sport’ (‘I do sport’). We call this the partitive article.
- The partitive article is also used to mean 'some' (an unspecified amount) with food and drink.
- 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
To say 'I'm eating pizza' in French it's 'je mange pizza'.
In English we often leave out the article, but in French we must use the partitive article when referring to an unspecified amount of food or drink. So we would say: 'Je mange de la pizza' because 'pizza' is feminine.
Teacher tip
This lesson concludes the unit using 'faire' and 'jouer' to describe different activities. If taught at the end of the school year, students could be encouraged to write a postcard in French to the school from a summer holiday destination, even if they are having a staycation!
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.'Tu __________ maison'. Choose the correct missing words.
Q2.Match the French and English.
cycling
gymnastics
market
swiming pool
skiing
exercise
Q3.Match the French and English.
to drink, drinking
to correct, correcting
to explain, explaining
to close, closing
to wash, washing
to exchange, exchanging
Q4.Order the words to say: 'I go to the park and you go to the beach'.
Q5.Write in English: 'j'aime faire du sport'.
Q6.Write in French: 'I am in France'.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Match the words and missing sounds.
[u]
[ou]
[eu]
[au]
[eau]
[ien]
Q2.Which sentence is correct?
Q3.Write in French: 'I play football'.
Q4.Write it French: 'I do swimming'.
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