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La vie quotidienne ici et ailleurs : extended speaking and writing

I can compare daily life in different countries in speaking and writing, using prepositions and emphatic pronouns.

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La vie quotidienne ici et ailleurs : extended speaking and writing

I can compare daily life in different countries in speaking and writing, using prepositions and emphatic pronouns.

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Key learning points

  1. moi, toi, lui, elle, eux, and elles are used to mean me, you, him, her, and them as emphatic pronouns.
  2. Emphatic pronouns can also be used after a comparative e.g. Il est plus sérieux que toi.
  3. Planning a speaking task answer carefully, pre-rehearsal and immediate repetition of the task improve performance.

Keywords

  • Comparative - a form of adjective or adverb used to compare people, things or ideas

  • Emphatic pronoun - a word used to emphasise a person, or when the pronoun stands alone

Common misconception

'Elle' only means she and 'elles' only means they when naming a group of girls or women.

When used as emphatic pronouns, 'elle' means her and 'elles' means them.


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6 Questions

Q1.
Which words are adverbs?
Correct answer: uniquement
Correct answer: souvent
zéro
Correct answer: parfois
à bientôt
Q2.
Match the tense, mood with the French sentence.
Correct Answer:present tense,Je vais souvent en ville.
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Je vais souvent en ville.

Correct Answer:perfect tense,Je suis allé(e) en ville.
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Je suis allé(e) en ville.

Correct Answer:imperfect tense,J'allais en ville.
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J'allais en ville.

Correct Answer:conditional mood,Je voudrais aller en ville.
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Je voudrais aller en ville.

Correct Answer:immediate future tense,Je vais aller en ville.
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Je vais aller en ville.

Q3.
The imperfect tense stem for most verbs is formed by ...
Correct answer: taking the 'nous' form of the verb in the present tense and removing -ons.
taking the 'vous' form of the verb in the present tense and removing -ez.
taking the 'ils, elles' form of the verb in the present tense and removing -ent.
taking the 'il, elle' form of the verb in the present tense and removing -e.
Q4.
Which verb does not use the 'nous' for in the present tense to create its imperfect tense stem?
Correct Answer: être
Q5.
Which is the missing word in this sentence? 'Quand j'étais petit(e), je le ménage pour aider mon père.'
Correct Answer: faisais
Q6.
Put the words in order to make this sentence: We used to eat lunch at school in the past.
1 - nous
2 - mangions
3 - le
4 - déjeuner
5 - à
6 - l'école
7 - avant

5 Questions

Q1.
Which pronoun is never an emphatic pronoun?
moi
lui
Correct answer: ils
elles
eux
Q2.
What do 'elle' and 'elles' mean in this sentence? 'Elle sort souvent avec ses amies et va en ville avec elles.'
she and they
her and they
Correct answer: she and them
her and them
Q3.
Match the English and French emphatic pronouns.
Correct Answer:moi,me
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me

Correct Answer:toi,you
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you

Correct Answer:lui,him
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him

Correct Answer:elle,her
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her

Correct Answer:eux,them (m)
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them (m)

Correct Answer:elles,them (f)
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them (f)

Q4.
Which emphatic pronoun is missing here? 'Mes frères sont négatifs. Je suis plus positif qu' .
Correct Answer: eux
Q5.
Which emphatic pronoun is missing here? 'Ma sœur est malade mais je suis plus malade qu' .
Correct Answer: elle

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