La journée d'un jeune migrant : Extended writing and speaking
I can use the simple past, the present perfect and present tense + depuis to describe past and ongoing events in the life of an immigrant.
La journée d'un jeune migrant : Extended writing and speaking
I can use the simple past, the present perfect and present tense + depuis to describe past and ongoing events in the life of an immigrant.
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Key learning points
- The perfect tense and present tense + depuis can usefully be combined to talk about completed and ongoing events.
- [e] sounds like 'je' and [ui] sounds like 'huit'.
- When talking or writing about someone else, change pronouns, verbs and possessive adjectives from first to third person.
- It is important to carefully plan use of tenses when creating a longer text.
Keywords
First person - form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to yourself
Third person - form of pronouns and verbs used to refer to others
Perfect tense - describes what you did or have done in the past
Present tense - describes what you do habitually or what you are doing now
Depuis - for, since
Common misconception
When writing, talking about what someone does, has done using a text written in the first person for information, only the subject pronoun needs to be changed in each sentence.
When writing, talking in the third person using a text in the first person for information, change the subject pronoun, verb, object pronouns and possessive adjectives (words like my, your, his, her).
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
August
had
drank, drunk
yet, again
to be, being
to have, having
suis
as
est
sommes
êtes
ont
Exit quiz
6 Questions
lui
va
a
est
son
sa