Winter celebrations: partitive articles
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use the partitive article to talk about traditional food and drink on festive occasions in the French-speaking world.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Use un/une to talk about whole things, and du/de la/de l' (the partitive article) to talk about 'part' of something.
- Whole things are normally countable – you can put 'a' or a number in front of them.
- Some nouns are uncountable. You can't put 'a' or a number in front of them. Uncountable nouns only take the partitive.
- The partitive article changes to 'de' after a quantity and in negatives.
Keywords
Partitive article - refers to part of something; often means 'some' in English
Common misconception
Use the partitive article with all uncountable nouns, even negatives.
After quantities and negatives use 'de/d' instead of the partitive article. E.g Il y a beaucoup de riz. Il n'y a pas de riz.
Teacher tip
It would be useful for students to have individual copies of the text for A2 and the activity could be extended by correcting the false answers. The texts in B1 and B2 also have scope to be translations into English and/or read aloud activities.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which word means 'happiness'?
Q2.Match the French to the English.
to contain, containing
to belong to, belonging to
to believe, believing
to raise, raising
to support, supporting
to translate, translating
Q3.Order the words to say 'for Hanukkah, doughnuts are eaten to remember the oil'.
Q4.Order the words to say 'Christmas is an important festival for Christians'.
Q5.'Le dinde est un plat traditionnel.' Translate this sentence into English.
Q6.'She receives a small present.' Translate this sentence into French.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the French to English.
Canadian
Christian
Muslim
Algerian
European
Jewish
Q2.Which word means 'non-religiousness'?
Q3.Order the words to say 'when we celebrate Christmas, we watch television together'.
Q4.Order the words to say 'you spend the winter holidays at your home'.
Q5.Order the words to say 'for dessert, one has cakes'.
Q6.'Il mange une tarte avec du sirop.' Translate this sentence into English.
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