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Year 8

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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Year 8

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

  1. Sound-symbol correspondences [aill/ail], [eill/eil], [euill/euil] and [ouill/ouil] are pronounced like a vowel + 'yih'.
  2. 'Les faux amis' or 'false friends' are words that look like cognates but have different meanings in English and French.
  3. 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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The text in C1 could be further exploited as a translation of new and revisited vocabulary. It's not included in this lesson to fit in the information gap speaking task C2. This lesson is another apportunity to show further maps of Nice and its proximity to other countries, in this case Italy.
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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of the following is the correct translation for 'to write, writing'?
entendre
lire
Correct answer: écrire
répondre
Q2.
Match the French and the English
Correct Answer:dépendre (de),to depend, depending

to depend, depending

Correct Answer:soin (m),care

care

Correct Answer:maman,mum

mum

Correct Answer:possible,possible

possible

Correct Answer:seul,alone (m)

alone (m)

Correct Answer:salut,hi

hi

Q3.
Match the French and the English
Correct Answer:s’il te plait,please (informal)

please (informal)

Correct Answer:s’il vous plait,please (formal)

please (formal)

Correct Answer:décrire,to describe, describing

to describe, describing

Correct Answer:expérience (f),experience

experience

Correct Answer:programme (m),schedule

schedule

Correct Answer:produit (m),product

product

Q4.
Fill in the missing word in the translation of 'I hear the announcements': 'J' les annonces. '
Correct Answer: entends
Q5.
How do you say: you (formal) learn?
Correct answer: vous apprenez
tu prends
vous apprendez
ils apprennent
Q6.
Fill in the gap in the translation of 'They understand quickly': 'Ils vite.'
Correct Answer: comprennent

4 Questions

Q1.
Match the sound-symbol correspondences with their sounds.
Correct Answer:eill/eil as in soleil,è + 'yih'

è + 'yih'

Correct Answer:ouill/ouil as in grenouille,ou + 'yih'

ou + 'yih'

Correct Answer:aill/ail as in taille,a + 'yih'

a + 'yih'

Correct Answer:euil/euill as in feuille,open eu + 'yih'

open eu + 'yih'

Q2.
Match the French to the English.
Correct Answer:histoire (f),story, history

story, history

Correct Answer:descendre ,to go down, going down

to go down, going down

Correct Answer:(en) bas ,at the bottom

at the bottom

Correct Answer:règle (f) ,rule, ruler

rule, ruler

Correct Answer:piste (f) ,ski slope

ski slope

Q3.
Which of the following words is a false friend (les faux amis)?
Correct answer: roman
texte
piste
histoire
Q4.
What are the endings for verbs like 'entendre' in the present tense for the 1st and 2nd persons plural?
-ent, -ez
Correct answer: -ons, -ez
-ons, -ent
-ez, -ons

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