Food and drink: 'boire' singular, write about own eating routines
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use the irregular verb 'boire', partitive articles and negation to describe my eating and drinking habits.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- [i] sounds like 'midi'.
- [ill/ille] sounds like 'fille'.
- 'Boire' (to drink) is irregular but has the same singular present tense endings as verbs like 'sortir' and 'venir'.
- Uncountable nouns cannot be counted, only measured; they always need the partitive article.
- In negative sentences, change the partitive article to 'de' or 'd'' before nouns starting with a vowel/h.
Keywords
[i] - pronounced as in 'midi'
[ill/ille] - pronounced as in 'fille'
Partitive article - refer to parts of things; often mean 'some' in English
Uncountable noun - noun which cannot be counted, only measured, e.g. (lots of) luck, (some) music, (1kg) rice.
Common misconception
Always use the partitive article after food and drink items, even with negative sentences.
The partitive article changes to 'de' to say what you don't eat and drink e.g. 'je ne mange pas de pizza'.
Teacher tip
Although there is no explicit productive speaking task in the final cycle, C4 is a great opportunity for partner speaking and there are multiple opportunities for reading aloud.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Order the numbers 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 30 in French.
Q2.Which is the French word for 'first'?
Q3.Tick any words with the [i] sound.
Q4.Match the definition to the example.
une
l'
du
nous
puisque
gérer
Q5.What is the French word for meal?
Q6.Put the sentence 'Last summer, during the holidays, I visited Brussels' into the correct order in French.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the high frequency vocabulary in French and English.
a lot
little
then
as, because
first
also
Q2.Tick any words with the [i] or [ille] sounds in French.
Q3.What's the French word for a glass?
Q4.What's the French infinitive 'to drink'?
Q5.What is the missing word in the sentence 'Je ne bois pas lait.' ?
Q6.Put the sentence 'I'm buying bread and he's bringing a cake' into the correct order in French.
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