Emergency services: -er verbs in the perfect tense with 'être'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use the perfect tense to talk about medical situations in France.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- 'S' at the beginning of a word is soft 's' (sont) but a single 's' between vowels is a hard 's' ('vous êtes').
- All French people have a 'Carte Vitale' necessary to use French health services. Call the SAMU in a medical emergency.
- The present tense has one conjugated verb; the perfect tense has two verbs, a part of avoir/être + a past participle.
- Use a conjugated form of 'avoir' with most verbs but use 'être' with movement verbs, and past participles must agree.
Keywords
's' liaison - pronouncing a usually silent final consonant because a word starting with a vowel follows
Perfect tense - a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past e.g. 'I said', 'she played'
Common misconception
Every 's' at the end of a word is silent because of the silent final consonant rule.
Usually 's' is silent at the end of a word but if the next word starts with a vowel, you usually hear liaison, whereby the final consonant is pronounced. When the final consonat is 's', it sounds like the hard 's' in 'maison'.
Teacher tip
Task C3 could be adapted to add practice of question words in the perfect tense or even made into a more independent writing task, where students describe a (real or fictional) accident they have had.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these is essential for a French person to use French health services?
Q2.In which of these words does the 's' sound like the 'z' in 'zebra'?
Q3.Which auxiliary verb is used with most verbs in the perfect tense?
Q4.Put the following words in the correct order to form a grammatically correct sentence in the perfect tense.
Q5.Consider the sentence: 'Les amis sont allés à l'hôpital.' Why does 'allés' have an 's' at the end?
Q6.Which of the following verbs would use 'être' as its auxiliary verb in the perfect tense?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.In the sentence 'J'ai eu mal à la tête' (I had a headache), which word is the past participle?
Q2.If you wanted to say 'She fell' in French, which of these would be correct?
Q3.What does 'liaison' primarily help with in French pronunciation?
Q4.Match the verb on the left to the auxiliary verb it uses in the perfect tense on the right.
avoir
etre
avoir
avoir
etre
etre
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