Des industries françaises : relative clauses
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can understand longer texts about French industry and jobs, with extended sentences including a range of relative pronouns.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- When the relative pronoun relates to the object of the sentence, we use 'que' instead of 'qui'.
- Où and quand can also be used in relative clauses to detail where or when something happens.
- [qu] sounds like 'question' or 'quatre', [en/an] sound like 'enfant' and [e] sounds like 'je'.
- Dont is another relative pronoun; it means 'of which' or 'whose'.
Keywords
Relative pronoun - a pronoun that introduces a relative clause, e.g. 'qui', 'que'
Object-relative clause - adds information about the object in the main clause
Common misconception
'Que' can be used in a subject-relative clause, e.g. 'le prof que s'appelle M. Jones est sympa.'.
'Que' introduces an object-relative clause where a new subject and verb is used, e.g. 'la voiture que je voudrais est très chère'. 'Que' shortens to 'qu'' in front of a vowel.
Teacher tip
In learning cycle 2 there are two options for tasks B2 and B3. Option 1 is for Higher students and contains Higher and exam board specific grammar. Option 1 for both tasks is included in the video.
Equipment
Mini whiteboard and pens are useful if possible for the quick check tasks.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.When 'qui' is in the middle of a sentence, which translations are possible? E.g J'ai un chat qui est noir.
Q2.Tick the examples of intonation questions.
Q3.Reorder the vocabulary to translate : They are paying me a very good salary here.
Q4.Match the French and English vocabulary together.
pollution
to increase, raise
to be in the middle of
gas
planet
to threaten, threatening
Q5.Which nouns are places of work?
Q6.Complete the sentence: The relative pronoun 'qui' adds information about the in the main clause.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Tick the words which can function as relative pronouns.
Q2.What is the translation of the relative pronoun 'où'?
Q3.Tick the examples of object-relative clauses.
Q4.Choose 'qui' or 'que/qu'' to complete the sentence: les projets vous avez sont très compliqués. (The plans that, which you have are very complicated).
Q5.Which Sound Symbol Correspondence (SSC) is common to the French translations of: window, I, horse?
Q6.Choose the word in French containing the SSCs [qu], [en/an] or [e]. Some may contain more than one.
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