A typical day: partitive, liaison, perfect tense questions
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can ask and answer 'est-ce que' questions in the perfect tense to describe daily life.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- You can pronounce a usually silent final consonant if it is followed by a vowel; this is liaison.
- Use the partitive article with uncountable nouns/ non-specific amounts; change to 'de' after quantities/negatives.
- Use 'est-ce que' at the beginning of a sentence to signal questioning.
- To make perfect tense sentences negative, put 'ne … pas' around the form of 'avoir'.
Keywords
Liaison - pronouncing a usually silent final consonant because a word starting with a vowel follows
Partitive article - refers to parts of things; often means 'some' in English
Est-ce que - questioning device
Common misconception
Ne ... pas goes around the main verb (the past participle) in perfect tense sentences.
Just like in other double verb sentences, ne...pas goes around the first verb; in the perfect tense, that's the conjugated form of 'avoir'.
Teacher tip
For task C1, teachers organise the task as an information gap where pupils have to listen + understand the answer. This could be achieved if the responding pupil faces away and either a) chooses to answer negatively/positively or b) has a print out of the answer prompts rather than using the slides.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match up the French and the English words.
Q2.Which of these words are definite articles?
Q3.Match the beginnings and ends of the sentences which make the most sense.
Q4.Put the sentence in order.
Q5.Fill the gap in this sentence with the correct form of 'faire': Nous la cuisine.
Q6.Put the sentence in the correct order.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match up the French and the English.
Q2.Match the noun with the correct partitive article.
Q3.Which of these things are uncountable?
Q4.What can you add to the beginning of this sentence to turn it into a closed question? 'Tu aimes les maths.'
Q5.In which phrases would there be liaison?
Q6.Put this sentence in the correct order.
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