The French colonial empire: perfect tense with verbs like 'venir' and 'entendre'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use verbs like 'entendre', 'venir' and 'mettre' in the perfect tense, including with inversion, to talk about French colonial history.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- [on] is pronounced as in 'non' and [om] is pronounced as in 'nom'. They become non-nasal before a vowel e.g. 'colonial'.
- To form the past participles of verbs like 'entendre' and 'venir', remove -re/ir from the infinitive, add the ending -u.
- With verbs like 'mettre', remove -ettre from the infinitive and add -is.
- Turn perfect tense sentences into questions by inverting the subject and auxiliary verb and adding a hyphen.
- Add -t- between il/elle and the verb to create a liaison.
Keywords
Past participle - verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with the auxiliary verb
Inversion question - when the subject pronoun and the verb switch place to form a question
Common misconception
When forming inversion questions in the perfect tense, you just have to swap the subject and the verb.
Swapping the position of the subject and the verb is an important step in forming inversion questions but remember to add a hyphen and -t- in the third person singular e.g. 'A-t-elle vendu sa maison ?'
Teacher tip
A wider discussion on French-speaking countries from across the globe would be stimulating and enriching if time permits.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What are DOM-TOM?
Q2.Which word has a non-nasal sound?
Q3.Which word or phrases means 'because of'?
Q4.Match the continents.
Amérique du nord
Amérique du sud
Asie
Afrique
Europe
Australie
Q5.Match the numbers.
soixante
soixante-dix
quatre-vingt
quatre-vingt-dix
cent
mille
Q6.Write in English: 'dix-septième siècle'.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.How would you ask your friends if they have been waiting long?
Q2.'Elles sont en train.' Choose the correct past participle.
Q3.Order the words to form a question.
Q4.'Tu es venu avec elle.' Turn this sentence into an inversion question.
Q5.Write in French: 'I put'.
Q6.Write in French: 'I heard'.
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