A school trip: -re verbs like 'entendre' 1st and 2nd persons plural
Learning outcomes
I can use verbs like 'entendre' in the 1st and 2nd persons plural to describe a school trip.
I can distinguish between and pronounce a range of SSCs with [il/ill] in them.
A school trip: -re verbs like 'entendre' 1st and 2nd persons plural
Learning outcomes
I can use verbs like 'entendre' in the 1st and 2nd persons plural to describe a school trip.
I can distinguish between and pronounce a range of SSCs with [il/ill] in them.
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Key learning points
- Sound-symbol correspondences [aill/ail], [eill/eil], [euill/euil] and [ouill/ouil] are pronounced like a vowel + 'yih'.
- 'Les faux amis' or 'false friends' are words that look like cognates but have different meanings in English and French.
- The endings for verbs like 'entendre' in the present tense in the 1st and 2nd persons plural are 'ons' and 'ez'.
Keywords
Sound-symbol correspondence - relationship between letters and their sounds
1st person plural - form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'we'
2nd person plural - form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to 'you' (plural)
Common misconception
If a word looks the same in French and English, it will always be a cognate.
There are lots of cognates, where English and French words are the same or similar. However, there are some words, known as 'false friends'. These are words whose meanings are not what they look like e.g. 'attendre' meaning 'to wait' not 'to attend'.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
to depend, depending
care
mum
possible
alone (m)
hi
please (informal)
please (formal)
to describe, describing
experience
schedule
product
Exit quiz
4 Questions
è + 'yih'
ou + 'yih'
a + 'yih'
open eu + 'yih'
story, history
to go down, going down
at the bottom
rule, ruler
ski slope