Ongoing past events: imperfect tense
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Why this why now
In this units, pupils revisit known vocabulary and grammar whilst applying être and avoir in the imperfect tense. Aller and faire are also practised to discuss habitual events which 'used to' happen. When narrating what happened pupils enrich their conversations and written production through use of imperfect for ongoing events vs perfect tense for specific events. Question words with est-ce que and the imperfect tense are practised.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know how to form singular persons of the imperfect tense of regular verbs.
- Pupils know to use the imperfect tense to talk about what and how things used to be.
- Pupils can ask ‘est-ce que’ questions with and without questions words in the perfect tense.
- Pupils are familiar with the sound-symbol correspondences open and closed eu, œu, and r.
Threads
Why this why now
In this units, pupils revisit known vocabulary and grammar whilst applying être and avoir in the imperfect tense. Aller and faire are also practised to discuss habitual events which 'used to' happen. When narrating what happened pupils enrich their conversations and written production through use of imperfect for ongoing events vs perfect tense for specific events. Question words with est-ce que and the imperfect tense are practised.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know how to form singular persons of the imperfect tense of regular verbs.
- Pupils know to use the imperfect tense to talk about what and how things used to be.
- Pupils can ask ‘est-ce que’ questions with and without questions words in the perfect tense.
- Pupils are familiar with the sound-symbol correspondences open and closed eu, œu, and r.
Ongoing past events: imperfect tense
In this unit, pupils re-examine être and avoir in the imperfect tense in singular form, and add aller and faire in the imperfect what people used to do. The imperfect is then contrasted with the perfect tense to distinguish between ongoing vs specific events. The verb 'voir' is introduced.
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