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Year 8

A typical day: perfect tense, 'jouer', 'faire', jobs

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I can use a range of vocabulary and structures including the perfect tense in the context of a school day.

I can distinguish and pronounce a range of sound-symbol correspondences, including liaison between words.

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A typical day: perfect tense, 'jouer', 'faire', jobs

Learning outcomes

I can use a range of vocabulary and structures including the perfect tense in the context of a school day.

I can distinguish and pronounce a range of sound-symbol correspondences, including liaison between words.

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Key learning points

  1. Regularly revisiting SSCs supports accurate spelling and pronunciation, building confidence.
  2. To form the perfect tense with -er verbs, use the present tense of ‘avoir’ and a past participle ending in 'é'.
  3. ‘Which’ agrees with the gender and number of the noun it describes; 'quel', 'quelle', 'quels' and 'quelles'.
  4. The preposition 'à' follows 'jouer' with sports, 'de' follows 'jouer' with musical instruments and 'faire' with sports.
  5. To make job nouns feminine, add -e, change the spelling from -eur to -rice/euse, or just change the article..

Keywords

  • Sound-symbol correspondence - relationship between letters and their sounds, referred to as SSC

  • Perfect tense - a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past e.g. 'I said', 'she played'

Common misconception

Only change your main verb into a past verb in French like we can do in English to form the past tense, e.g. I do → I did.

In French you need two verbs in the perfect tense for it to make sense; the correct part of 'avoir' and the past participle.


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6 Questions

Q1.
Match the French noun to its English translation
Correct Answer:collège,school
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school

Correct Answer:fête,party
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party

Correct Answer:match,game
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game

Correct Answer:chose,thing
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thing

Q2.
What is the feminine form of 'médecin'?
Correct Answer: médecin, Médecin, It stays the same, There is no change
Q3.
Which of the following is a feminine noun?
frère
enfant
Correct answer: lettre
exercice
Q4.
What does 'élève' mean?
Correct Answer: student, Student, a student, pupil, a pupil
Q5.
Put the words in order to make a sentence: une/ belle/ chanteuse/ est/ elle.
1 - Elle
2 - est
3 - une
4 - belle
5 - chanteuse
Q6.
Complete the following sentence with the correct word: 'L'histoire que j'ai entendue était très ____.'
famille
Correct answer: amusante
exercise
college

6 Questions

Q1.
Which form of 'faire' would you use with 'ils'?
fais
fait
faites
Correct answer: font
Q2.
Which of the following is the correct way to say 'I played' in French, using the perfect tense?
Je jouais
Je joue
Correct answer: J'ai joué
Je vais jouer
Q3.
Put the following words in the correct order to form a sentence using the perfect tense: 'ai / j' / partagé / un / repas'.
1 - J'
2 - ai
3 - partagé
4 - un
5 - repas
Q4.
Which of the following is a feminine noun?
ami
Correct answer: activité
acteur
repas
Q5.
Which sentence correctly uses 'jouer à'?
Il joue à la guitare.
Elle joue à football.
Nous jouons à tennis.
Correct answer: Vous jouez à un jeu.
Q6.
What is the feminine form of 'vendeur'?
Correct Answer: vendeuse

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