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- Year 11
- AQA
Une visite à Cannes : past versus present, conversation (AQA)
I can use present and perfect tenses, including reflexive verbs, to describe a visit to Cannes.
- Year 11
- AQA
Une visite à Cannes : past versus present, conversation (AQA)
I can use present and perfect tenses, including reflexive verbs, to describe a visit to Cannes.
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Key learning points
- Combining the perfect tense and the present tense is a useful way to contrast past and present activities.
- When translating, it's important to pay attention to the gender and number of nouns and alter endings accordingly.
- In conversation, it is useful to combine tenses when giving an answer to develop the conversation.
Keywords
Perfect tense - a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past, e.g. 'I said', 'she played'
Common misconception
I can only answer conversation questions in the same tense as the question.
After responding appropriately to the initial question, it is a good idea to use different tenses in your answer to develop your response and to give interesting detail.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the verbs.
to thank
to dream
to participate
to close
to remember
to build
Q2.Find the correct translation for 'elle est en train de manger'.
Q3.Translate 'l'addition'.
Q4.Translate 'déjà'.
Q5.Which of the following means 'he is dead'?
Q6.You will see 2 spellings of the verb 's'asseoir / s'assoir' (modernised). Both mean to sit down. Match the old with the new.
je m'assois
tu t'assois
il s'assoit
elle s'assoit