Starter quiz
- [é], [er], [ez] and 'et' make different sounds.
- True
- False ✓
- When would you say 'Bonne année et bonne santé' to a French person?
- all through the year
- all through January ✓
- at New Year ✓
- at Christmas
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- Finish the sentence 'I sing a song': Je chante ...
- 'une chanson.' ✓
- What is a pronoun?
- the form of the verb giving its general meaning
- a word for a person, place, or thing
- a way to categorise all nouns as feminine or masculine
- the 'a' or 'an' that comes before a noun (a tree, an elephant)
- a word that takes the place of a noun, like 'it', 'you', 'she' ✓
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- Write the missing word: Tu portes un uniforme et un chapeau ______ la maison.
- 'à' ✓
- Write the correct verb form: 'Je ______ un film avec toi.'
- 'regarde' ✓
Exit quiz
- Find the words that have the [é] sounds.
- répétez ✓
- répéter ✓
- être
- et ✓
- règle
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- How do you say 'you' (one person) in French?
- 'tu' ✓
- 'Souhaiter', 'se régaler', 'skier', s'amuser', 'se déguiser' are all infinitive verbs.
- True ✓
- False
- Match the sentences.
- Elle porte un uniforme.⇔She wears a uniform. ✓
- Elle porte un cadeau.⇔She carries a present. ✓
- Il porte un chapeau.⇔He wears a hat. ✓
- Il porte un gâteau.⇔He carries a cake. ✓
- The endings of the verbs 'je regarde', 'tu regardes', 'il regarde', 'elle regarde' sound the same.
- True ✓
- False
- Match the words in French and English.
- pour⇔for ✓
- moi⇔me ✓
- toi⇔you ✓
- c'est⇔it is ✓
- parfait⇔perfect ✓
- mais⇔but ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The sound-symbol correspondence [-ez] and ‘et’, meaning and, sound the same as [é] and [-er].
- Verbs in the present tense change ending to match the pronoun: je-e, tu-es, elle, il-e.
- Endings -e and -es sound the same because of the silent final consonant.
Common misconception
All verb forms have the same ending.
A useful way to embed the pronoun-verb form-meaning connection is in reading activities that omit the pronouns; pupils are compelled to focus on the verb ending to complete the task.
Keywords
[-ez] and et - pronounced the same as [é] and [-er]
Pronoun - a word that takes the place of a noun, like 'it', 'you', 'she'
Il - French pronoun 'he'
Elle - French pronoun 'she'
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