Family activities: translating French present tense into English | French

Starter quiz

Match the French to the English.

chanter

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to sing, singing ✓

donner

⇔

to give, giving ✓

porter

⇔

to wear, wearing ✓

parler

⇔

to speak, speaking ✓

regarder

⇔

to watch, watching ✓

écouter

⇔

to listen, listening ✓
Which French word(s) have the [é] sound.

école ✓

tête

frère

été ✓

père
Which is the correct translation for 'he is preparing lunch'.

Il mange le déjeuner.

Elle écoute une chanson.

Il parle français.

Il prépare le déjeuner. ✓

Tu prépares le fruit.
Translate into the following sentence into English: 'Tu portes un chapeau'.

'You are wearing a hat.' ✓
Translate into French 'he is speaking English'

'Il parle anglais.' ✓
Match the French to the English.

Tu passes le weekend avec ton frère

⇔

You spend the weekend with your brother ✓

Je passe le weekend avec mon frère

⇔

I spend the weekend with my brother ✓

Il passe le weekend avec son frère

⇔

He spends the weekend with his brother ✓

Elle passe le weekend avec son frère

⇔

She spends the weekend with her brother ✓

Passer le weekend avec son frère

⇔

To spend the weekend with one's brother ✓

Which word(s) makes the [è] sound.

répéter

écrire

problème ✓

second

mère ✓
Match the French to the English.

le weekend

⇔

weekend ✓

le déjeuner

⇔

lunch ✓

le cadeau

⇔

present ✓

le chapeau

⇔

hat ✓

l'uniforme

⇔

uniform ✓

la chanson

⇔

song ✓
Which sentence means 'I am eating fruit'.

Je prépare le fruit.

Tu manges le fruit.

Elle mange le fruit.

Tu manges le déjeuner.

Je mange le fruit. ✓
Which of the following translate this sentence: 'Tu chantes à la radio' ?

You sing a song.

You sing on the radio. ✓

You listen to music.

I sing on the radio.

You are singing on the radio. ✓
Complete this sentence 'Il ______ un uniforme à l'école.'

'porte' ✓
Translate into French 'she gives a present to her mother'.

'Elle donne un cadeau à sa mère' ✓

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Accents can change the pronunciation of a letter in French. The SSCs [e], [è] and [é] make different sounds.
'Manger' (to eat) and 'passer' (to spend) are two regular -er verbs.
In French, there is only one way to talk about things in the present tense: je regarde.
In English, there are two ways to refer to the present: I watch and I am watching.
Regular -er verbs have the following endings in the singular form: (je) -e, (tu) -es, (il) -e and (elle) -e.

Accents are interchangable and do not change the pronunication of a letter. For example, [é] and [è] make the same sound.

Accents are not interchangable, they can change the pronunication of a letter. For example, [é] and [è] make different sounds.

[e] - pronounced as in 'cheval'
[é] - pronounced as in 'répéter'
[è] - pronounced as in 'frère'
-er verb - a verb which has an infinitive form ending in -er
Present tense - describing an action that is currently happening, or an event that happens regularly