Un membre de la famille que j'admire : extended writing and speaking
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can describe family members and relationships using a range of articles, possessive adjectives, and gender and number agreement of nouns.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- 'Moi-même', 'toi-même', etc. emphasise a person's involvement in an action and are translated as myself, yourself, etc.
- It is important to plan the ideas, the vocabulary and the grammar to be included when writing a longer text.
- Careful planning of a speaking task, pre-rehearsal and immediate repetition of the task all improve performance.
- When developing a personal response, it's helpful to use a dictionary to look up new vocabulary.
Keywords
Même - pronominal adjective meaning 'same', e.g. 'la même personne'
Moi-même - emphatic reflexive pronoun 'myself'
Toi-même - emphatic reflexive pronoun 'yourself'
Elle-même - emphatic reflexive pronoun 'herself'
Lui-même - emphatic reflexive pronoun 'himself'
Common misconception
You can just learn set sentences by heart and produce them mechanically when requested.
Both writing and speaking must be adapted to the question and have a level of personalisation and spontaneity.
Teacher tip
There are two options in certain exercices to support differentiation.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Relie les mots.
réfugié.
chez nous.
la femme de sa cousine.
demande importante.
Q2.Complète la phrase : J'ai famille partout en France.
Q3.Complète la phrase : Il a enfants.
Q4.Relie les mots.
la chance
nouvelles ?
une bonne huître.
un chien méchant.
homme non-binaire est calme.
peu de malchance.
Q5.Comment traduit-on en anglais : ses sœurs ?
Q6.Coche la phrase grammatiquement correcte.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Comment dit-on 'same' en français ?
Q2.Relie les mots.
myself
yourself
herself
himself
Q3.Relie les questions.
Is there...?
Do you have...?
Do you like...?
Q4.What do you need to do with your voice at the end of the question 'Il y a ... ?'
Q5.What should each role-play prompt response contain?
Q6.What can you bring into your writing or speaking vocabulary that you don't remember or haven't learnt?
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