Family activities: translating French present tense into English | French

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Match the French to the English.
- chanter
  
  ⇔
  
  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