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(speaking in foreign language) And we'll be learning how to talk about what we do in our free time and what we like to do in our free time.

We will also be revisiting some key sounds, (speaking in foreign language) And silent final letters.

Some of this learning will be familiar to you I'm sure, and some will be new and more challenging.

(speaking in foreign language) The following key words will be really helpful to us today throughout the lesson.

A subject pronoun is a little word like I, we, you, he, she.

And it represents the person, the people or the thing doing the action of the verb.

And infinitive is the basic form of the verb with no subject or tense yet indicated.

The form that you might find in the dictionary if you look up a new verb yourself.

We're going to start today by practising some key sounds.

(speaking in foreign language) And silent final letters.

(speaking in foreign language) Notice how we don't hear that final S at all.

(speaking in foreign language) So there we don't hear the E at the end of the word.

The last letter we hear is the letter preceding the final E.

So in this case with.

(speaking in foreign language) We hear the D.

(speaking in foreign language) As you read these four words aloud now, remember the final letter, whether it's the consonant or an E, is going to be silent.

(speaking in foreign language) Did you sound something like that? (speaking in foreign language) Now you can see three different spellings there of the same sound, E with an acute, ER and EZ.

And they're all going to make the same sound.

(speaking in foreign language) Now in that last one, hopefully you can see there are two different spellings of the same sound.

(speaking in foreign language) Now all three of those sound symbol correspondences are going to be key throughout today's lesson as we revise ER verbs.

(speaking in foreign language) Can you hear that that's quite a nasal sound.

(speaking in foreign language) Now that ONS ending there on.

(speaking in foreign language) We're going to see a lot today as well because we are revising ER verbs and that of course is the nu ending of ER verbs.

(speaking in foreign language) As I read this sentence aloud, which of A to D do you notice? (speaking in foreign language) Did you notice all of these sounds now highlighted in purple, we have some of the sound.

Did you write A? (speaking in foreign language) We have some silent final consonants there and we have some silent final Es.

Did you get some or all of those? (speaking in foreign language) Which sounds or silences do you notice there? Did you say B? Did you say silent final consonants? And did you see silent final Es there? The only one we are missing in that sentence is the sound.

(speaking in foreign language) Pause the video now and take your time to read those words aloud carefully.

(speaking in foreign language) Those last two sounded identical, didn't they? With two different spellings of the sound.

(speaking in foreign language) We're now gonna move on to expanding our range of ER verbs.

I'm sure you have a number of ER verbs that you know already.

Today, hopefully we're gonna revise some of those and expand your knowledge further.

As we go through these today, make a note of any that are new to you today or perhaps where you had forgotten the meaning.

(speaking in foreign language) To travel abroad.

(speaking in foreign language) Listen to music.

(speaking in foreign language) To sing songs.

(speaking in foreign language) To speak with friends or to chat with friends.

(speaking in foreign language) To visit museums. (speaking in foreign language) To watch films. (speaking in foreign language) Play tennis.

(speaking in foreign language) I'm sure we all do this from time to time, to dance in my bedroom.

(speaking in foreign language) To swim in the pool.

(speaking in foreign language) Now this means to draw some rare, unusual animals.

Maybe you'll use the verb.

(speaking in foreign language) But with a different object there.

(speaking in foreign language) To exchange messages, text messages.

(speaking in foreign language) To practise or we might just say to do a sport.

(speaking in foreign language) To swim.

(speaking in foreign language) Or exchange.

Can you see how similar that looks to our English word exchange? We have a neo cognate there, don't we.

(speaking in foreign language) Exchange.

(speaking in foreign language) To draw.

(speaking in foreign language) Looks a little bit like the English word to design, doesn't it? (speaking in foreign language) Design, draw.

(speaking in foreign language) Have a quick read through, were there any there that you weren't sure how to translate, just make a note of those and highlight those and try to use them over the course of the lesson.

If you need to rewind at any point to check the meanings, please do so.

We are gonna move on now to practise our subject pronouns and how to use these ER verbs that we've seen in the infinitive in sentences in the present tense.

So a subject pronoun.

One of our key words today is used to represent the person, people or thing doing the verb.

I'm gonna say the words in English.

I wonder if you can beat me to saying the words in French.

I expect you are familiar with many of these already.

I.

(speaking in foreign language) You, singular or informal, talking to a friend or I'm talking to you.

(speaking in foreign language) He.

Maybe you have a partner you can point to here.

I'm gonna point to my imaginary friend.

He or it.

(speaking in foreign language) She or it, point the other way.

(speaking in foreign language) What about we? There are two possibilities here.

Did you say? (speaking in foreign language) Or both.

(speaking in foreign language) We're gonna have another look at in a moment if you're not sure about that one.

You, if we are being polite or formal or you in the plural.

(speaking in foreign language) They, masculine or mixed form.

(speaking in foreign language) And the feminine form of that.

Perhaps look at the words above and see if you can spot the pattern if you're not sure, if you can't quite remember they in the feminine is.

(speaking in foreign language) Okay, we're gonna have a little look at some of those in more detail.

The ones that tend to catch us out a little bit.

(speaking in foreign language) Can be used not only for people but also to talk about things, animals, objects, et cetera.

And in this case.

(speaking in foreign language) Are going to be translated as it rather than he or she.

The plural forms will still be translated as they, let's have a look at this in action.

(speaking in foreign language) Now an English speaker who's not too experienced with French might translate that as, do you like this dress? Yes, she is beautiful but of course the.

(speaking in foreign language) There is referring to the dress.

So we need to be careful to make sure we translate that as it rather than she.

Less of an issue in the plural.

(speaking in foreign language) Do you like these shoes? (speaking in foreign language) Yes, they are beautiful because we in English use they for things and for people, less confusion on the translation there.

So which subject pronoun do we use to translate it for a feminine word? That's right, we use.

(speaking in foreign language) For a feminine word, for she but also for it.

Let's have a look at now.

(speaking in foreign language) A really useful question for today because we're talking about what we like doing in our free time.

(speaking in foreign language) Now if I ask that question, I could be in any number of different scenarios as Jacob tells me here, there are three different possible scenarios.

I could be talking formally to one adult.

So perhaps your school principal has just walked in.

(speaking in foreign language) I could be talking formally to more than one adult.

So perhaps there's a whole group of teachers in front of you now.

(speaking in foreign language) and this is the one people often forget, it could also be informal to more than one friend.

So still (speaking in foreign language) If you are asking this question to a group of your mates.

(speaking in foreign language) so in which two situations can be used to mean you? Did you say.

(speaking in foreign language) Of course for B, that's when we would use.

(speaking in foreign language) Instead of.

(speaking in foreign language) Talking to one friend or being informal.

Final pronoun I want to focus on quickly is this little word.

(speaking in foreign language) We are really good at pronouncing this 'cause we practised the phonic at the beginning of the lesson, didn't we? That nasal sound.

We can use to mean we.

It's usually a more informal version of.

(speaking in foreign language) So perhaps when you are talking about what you and your mates do at break time.

(speaking in foreign language) We play football every day.

You will also see though used to talk about you or one if we're being very formal or people in general.

So for example, you, one can, people can visit the castle.

So not you specifically here, but talking about people in general.

So which subject pronoun of these three cannot be translated as we? (speaking in foreign language) With a S of course means they.

(speaking in foreign language) Can both mean we.

Okay, let's see if we can combine our subject pronouns and our ER verbs now to make conjugated verbs and to make sentences with these.

So to use an ER verb in the present tense, I first need to take my infinitive, I have taken.

(speaking in foreign language) As my example here, to speak.

I'm gonna knock off the ER to leave what's called the verb stem.

(speaking in foreign language) And then I'm gonna add these endings to the stem.

Now, when I was young, I just learned these as.

(speaking in foreign language) It's not particularly snappy, but you do what works for you.

You may have already memorised these.

If you haven't, try and find a way during the course of today's lesson to really get those ingrained and so that you can apply them and use all persons of the verb.

(speaking in foreign language) There you can see my endings on the verb.

(speaking in foreign language) Now just before I read those for you, I wonder if you can have a think about the endings there, given that we've focused on some of these phonics already today.

Which of these endings do you think, and Jacob's asking you there, sound different to the others and therefore, which sound the same? Did you say the form and the form might sound different to the others, in which case he'd be correct.

(speaking in foreign language) I'm gonna knock off the ER first of all.

So I've got my verb stem.

Then I'm going to add my endings.

(speaking in foreign language) Just have a look down.

Have I got those endings correct there? (speaking in foreign language) I think so, okay.

(speaking in foreign language) find the verb stem, apply those endings.

Try and say the whole verb aloud as I just did there with.

(speaking in foreign language) So your verb stem should be.

(speaking in foreign language) We've knocked off the ER and then we should have.

(speaking in foreign language) Again, only those two endings are going to sound different to the others.

Did you sound something like that? Okay, one exception we're going to look at really quickly today is when we have a verb ending in GER.

I wonder if you can think of the verb to eat or the verb to swim or the verb to travel.

All of those end in GER, don't they? In this case, we need to be careful just with the new form where we're going to insert an extra E.

So let's take the verb.

(speaking in foreign language) To swim.

The form is as you would expect.

(speaking in foreign language) But in the form, can you see the E has just gone in there ahead of the ONS and that softens the G.

(speaking in foreign language) Let's have a look with.

(speaking in foreign language) Now, perhaps a new verb for you today, but it's one of those that ends in GER.

(speaking in foreign language) I exchange, as we would expect.

(speaking in foreign language) Just softens that G there.

Maybe you can have a think about how it would sound with.

(speaking in foreign language) As well.

(speaking in foreign language) As you listen to this sentence, you'll notice the pronoun is beeped out and you need to listen to the verb ending to decide who is speaking.

Should it be or should it be? (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) We heard the there, didn't we? (speaking in foreign language) We heard the A, the Z ending there, bravo.

In this final one, you're going to hear a noun and a verb and you are going to need to decide which pronoun.

(speaking in foreign language) With an S would replace the noun.

(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) We heard there the boy swims at the pool.

We can't tell which verb ending that is there because the El singular and the el plural actually sound the same, don't they? The E and the ENT.

But the fact that we heard.

(speaking in foreign language) Helps us to know that must be in the singular.

Often, as well as paying attention to verb endings, we need to pay attention to surrounding words and context to help us in these situations.

(speaking in foreign language) Okay, you are going to do some listening a little bit more independently now.

You're going to listen to these five sentences and for each one you need to do three things.

First of all, who is the sentence about? (speaking in foreign language) Singular or.

(speaking in foreign language) Plural, the second thing you're going to do is think about what the verb ending would be.

And thirdly, you're going to write down which pronoun could replace the noun that you hear.

Do as many of those things as you can.

Rewind the video and listen to the audio as many times as you need to do.

(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) We've got an E on the verb because it's singular, the boy and therefore he.

(speaking in foreign language) Plural, ENT, E with an S.

(speaking in foreign language) ENT, L with an S.

(speaking in foreign language) Now if you are unsure of any of those and you need to listen again, by all means listen again, if you are unsure because of the verb endings, just go back a little bit in the video and recap how we were applying those different endings for the different pronouns there.

If you managed to get all or most of that information, really well done, there was a lot to focus on there.

(speaking in foreign language) Sienna's gonna start by talking about herself here, but quickly moves on to talk about other people in her family.

See if you can work out which pronoun is missing in each of these gaps.

(speaking in foreign language) Have a look at the verb endings following those pronouns if you didn't get any of those correct and also have a look at the words surrounding.

So for example, I knew that after.

(speaking in foreign language) I needed the word for she, and also the verb ending was an E.

So that seemed right, really important that you use the verb endings and you use the other words in the context to help you there.

Okay, finally, today we are going to look at how to use plus infinitive to talk about what we like doing, and we're going to contrast that with our use of present tense verbs, talking about what we do.

So we are going to use the verb.

(speaking in foreign language) Followed by the Infinitive of the activity verb.

(speaking in foreign language) For example, she likes to send text messages to her friends.

Can you see the M there has got the correct ER verb ending on for she, and it's followed by the infinitive in bold there.

I I wonder if you can translate the next couple before I do.

(speaking in foreign language) We like to swim in the sea.

(speaking in foreign language) My parents like to travel abroad.

(speaking in foreign language) Okay.

(speaking in foreign language) What's missing here? We need the infinitive.

We've got, I like, we then need to travel.

(speaking in foreign language) What about now? (speaking in foreign language) Here, we've already given the infinitive, aren't we, to play? And we'd need therefore the.

(speaking in foreign language) To match the.

(speaking in foreign language) We need the correct verb ending, the form on our verb.

(speaking in foreign language) We like to play.

Now, I'm sure you've all come across.

(speaking in foreign language) Before for negating sentences, for turning a sentence negative.

And we're gonna use that today to talk about what we don't like to do.

(speaking in foreign language) Is going to go round.

(speaking in foreign language) Part of your sentence.

(speaking in foreign language) Is going to be shortened to N apostrophe because of course.

(speaking in foreign language) Starts with a vowel.

Let's have a look then at those same sentences, but now negated.

(speaking in foreign language) She doesn't like to send text messages to her friends.

(speaking in foreign language) We don't like to swim in the sea.

(speaking in foreign language) My parents don't like to travel abroad.

You can try and bring in one or two negatives about yourself or about other people that really helps to broaden what you're able to say in French and makes your text a little bit more interesting.

(speaking in foreign language) We are trying here to say, my brother doesn't like to exchange messages.

In B, as Alex is telling us here, we don't have the infinitive.

They've forgotten to put the ER on the end of the verb.

C doesn't fit at all really because if we were going to say my brother just exchanges messages, then it would have to have an E ending, not an EZ.

(speaking in foreign language) Our negative is correct there.

(speaking in foreign language) Okay, we had a look at a text earlier by Osean and your job was to fill in the pronouns to match the verbs.

Amir here is describing his free time and his hobbies and you mostly have, well, you have the pronouns and some nouns to help you.

What's missing this time is the verbs.

Now in pink you can see the English of the verbs that you need to replace.

Sometimes it's going to be an ER verb.

So where for example, you see.

(speaking in foreign language) You're gonna have to think what's the form of the verb to play there? But sometimes it says like to swim, for example.

In which case you're going to need to take part of the verb.

(speaking in foreign language) and your infinitive.

(speaking in foreign language) Did you notice that was a plural? It was talking about the sisters in the plural there.

(speaking in foreign language) Now that's the form of our question that we saw earlier.

(speaking in foreign language) We've now got.

(speaking in foreign language) This speaking brings together everything we've covered today, our phonics verbs, pronouns, and plus infinitive.

Just take a moment to listen to Aisha and Jacob here.

(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) So Aisha and Jacob there have used a good combination of ER verbs and emir plus infinitive.

They've kept it quite simple to focus on accuracy.

You might want to talk about other people as well.

You might want to use a range of different verbs and also add some extra opinions and reasons.

It's important that you work at a level that's right for you as you do this speaking activity now.

I've given you some verbs on the right hand side that you might want to try and incorporate into your conversation, or you might have your own that you would like to try and include.

If you're working in pairs, that's great, but if you're working on your own, do please still speak aloud as well.

It's important that you hear yourself practising your pronunciation and when to pronounce those ER verb endings and when to stay silent as well.

Okay.

(speaking in foreign language) Okay, how did you get on? Did you manage to include a good range of ER verbs there? If you've got time, pause the video and have one more go now without using the help on this slide.

Did you manage to include a range of different ER verbs in the.

(speaking in foreign language) Forms and in the infinitive form after.

(speaking in foreign language) As well? (speaking in foreign language) Nice simple example from Laura and Izzy there.

Or perhaps you managed to go further and include reasons for your opinions, and did you manage to use ER verb endings to talk about other people too? You can see here that Laura manages to bring in information about her sisters.

She tells us that they dance very well.

Izzy replies to say that she dances with her family and we sing every day.

So nice variety there in the ER verb endings used.

Maybe you can go back and have another go and add some of those extra bits in now.

So that brings us onto the summary of today's lesson.

Most consonants and the letter E are silent at the end of words.

(speaking in foreign language) All sound like the.

(speaking in foreign language) Is a nasal sound.

Subject pronouns are used to represent the subject of the verb.

(speaking in foreign language) Can represent things as well as people.

To form the present tense of verbs ending with ER, we remove the ER, first of all to find the verb stem, and then we add on our endings.

(speaking in foreign language) And finally, we talked about activities we like to do using the verb.

(speaking in foreign language) Followed by the infinitive of the activity verb.

(speaking in foreign language) Well done for your focus and hard work today.

(speaking in foreign language).