The French colonial empire: more practice of verbs like 'entendre' and 'venir'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use verbs like 'entendre' and 'venir' in the present and perfect tenses in the context of French colonisation, including in information questions.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- [un/um] is pronounced as in 'un' (a). [un/um] becomes non-nasal before a vowel e.g. 'unité'.
- Verbs like 'entendre' are similar in the present/perfect tenses but verbs like 'venir' are very different.
- Listen for an auxiliary verb to identify the tense, only the perfect tense has an auxiliary verb.
- Add question words to the start of a sentence to ask an information question.
- There is no subject-verb inversion when 'qui' is the first word of clause.
Keywords
Perfect tense - a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past e.g. 'I said', 'she played'
Information question - question starting with a wh- word that has more information in the answer than yes/no
Common misconception
The verbs 'entendre' and 'venir' have the same auxiliary verb.
Although their past participles are formed in the same way (ending in u), ‘venir’ is always formed with the auxiliary verb 'être' and never with ‘avoir’.
Teacher tip
It might be worth reminding students that there are more natural ways to ask the questions in English in C2 but they are there to prompt the students to use inversion in French. Teachers could change the English wording if they felt it necessary.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What does 'J'ai besoin d'une serviette' mean?
Q2.'Vol' has 2 meanings. Which are correct?
Q3.What brand is it? C'est quelle ? Insert the missing word.
Q4. mon père, je suis intelligent! Insert the French word for 'according to'.
Q5.Match the words.
safety
crime
theft, flight
criminal
responsibility
police officer
Q6.What is the métropole'?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these sounds are nasal?
Q2.What is the meaning of the word 'mode'?
Q3.Match the parts of the perfect tense of 'vendre' (to sell, selling).
ai vendu
as vendu
a vendu
avons vendu
avez vendu
ont vendu
Q4.Elles sont . Insert the correct form of the past participle (venir)
Q5.Which of these verbs use être in the past tense?
Q6.Put the words in order to ask about the ice cream.
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