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Food and drink: 'boire' singular, write about own eating routines

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I can use the irregular verb 'boire', partitive articles and negation to describe my eating and drinking habits.

I can pronounce and spell the sound-symbol correspondences [i] and [ille].

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Food and drink: 'boire' singular, write about own eating routines

Learning outcomes

I can use the irregular verb 'boire', partitive articles and negation to describe my eating and drinking habits.

I can pronounce and spell the sound-symbol correspondences [i] and [ille].

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Key learning points

  1. [i] sounds like 'midi'.
  2. [ill/ille] sounds like 'fille'.
  3. 'Boire' (to drink) is irregular but has the same singular present tense endings as verbs like 'sortir' and 'venir'.
  4. Uncountable nouns cannot be counted, only measured; they always need the partitive article.
  5. In negative sentences, change the partitive article to 'de' or 'd'' before nouns starting with a vowel/h.

Keywords

  • [i] - pronounced as in 'midi'

  • [ill/ille] - pronounced as in 'fille'

  • Partitive article - refer to parts of things; often mean 'some' in English

  • Uncountable noun - noun which cannot be counted, only measured, e.g. (lots of) luck, (some) music, (1kg) rice.

Common misconception

Always use the partitive article after food and drink items, even with negative sentences.

The partitive article changes to 'de' to say what you don't eat and drink e.g. 'je ne mange pas de pizza'.


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6 Questions

Q1.
Order the numbers 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 30 in French.
1 - treize
2 - quatorze
3 - quinze
4 - seize
5 - vingt
6 - trente
Q2.
Which is the French word for 'first'?
par
Correct answer: premier, première
plat
puis
puisque
Q3.
Tick any words with the [i] sound.
poisson
j'ai
Correct answer: cuisiner
pain
Correct answer: prix
Q4.
Match the definition to the example.
Correct Answer:indefinite article,une
tick

une

Correct Answer:definite article,l'
tick

l'

Correct Answer:partitive article,du
tick

du

Correct Answer:subject pronoun,nous
tick

nous

Correct Answer:conjunction,puisque
tick

puisque

Correct Answer:infinitive,gérer
tick

gérer

Q5.
What is the French word for meal?
Correct Answer: repas, le repas, un repas
Q6.
Put the sentence 'Last summer, during the holidays, I visited Brussels' into the correct order in French.
1 - l'été
2 - dernier
3 - pendant
4 - les vacances
5 - j'ai
6 - visité
7 - Bruxelles

6 Questions

Q1.
Match the high frequency vocabulary in French and English.
Correct Answer:beaucoup,a lot
tick

a lot

Correct Answer:peu,little
tick

little

Correct Answer:puis,then
tick

then

Correct Answer:puisque,as, because
tick

as, because

Correct Answer:d'abord,first
tick

first

Correct Answer:par,also
tick

also

Q2.
Tick any words with the [i] or [ille] sounds in French.
parfois
Correct answer: riz
Correct answer: ville
Correct answer: famille
lait
Q3.
What's the French word for a glass?
un thé
Correct answer: un verre
une place
une recette
une saison
Q4.
What's the French infinitive 'to drink'?
Correct Answer: boire
Q5.
What is the missing word in the sentence 'Je ne bois pas lait.' ?
Correct Answer: de
Q6.
Put the sentence 'I'm buying bread and he's bringing a cake' into the correct order in French.
1 - J'achète
2 - du
3 - pain
4 - et
5 - il apporte
6 - un
7 - gateau

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