School reporter: past inversion questions
Learning outcomes
I can plan questions for a school report using inversion and the perfect tense
I can compare and contrast the SSCs (sound-symbol correspondence) [s], [tion] and [c/ç].
School reporter: past inversion questions
Learning outcomes
I can plan questions for a school report using inversion and the perfect tense
I can compare and contrast the SSCs (sound-symbol correspondence) [s], [tion] and [c/ç].
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Key learning points
- The French [s] can make a hard 'z' or a soft 's' sound: maison, société.
- The SSC [tion] makes a soft 's' sound: attention. The SSC [ç/c] makes a soft 's' sound: cinéma.
- Use the perfect tense to talk about an action that happened in the past: avoir + past participle.
- To ask a closed question in the perfect tense use inversion: swap the subject and the verb (avoir): as-tu commencé ?
Keywords
[s] - pronounced as in 'maison'
[tion] - pronounced as in 'attention'
[c/ç] - pronounced as in 'ici'
Perfect tense - a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past e.g. I listened, you played
Inversion - when the subject pronoun and the verb switch place to form a question
Common misconception
When forming an inversion question in the perfect tense, the past participle comes after 'avoir'.
When forming an inversion question in the perfect tense, only the verb avoir and the subject swap. The past participle remains at the end: as-tu commencé ?
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