Quelques difficultés au travail : past tense questions, indefinite adjectives | French

Starter quiz

Match the French and English.

usine

⇔

factory ✓

école

⇔

school ✓

bureau

⇔

office ✓

hôpital

⇔

hospital ✓

magasin

⇔

shop ✓

caisse

⇔

checkout ✓
Translate the sentence: I wear a shirt and tie in the office.

1

⇔

je porte

2

⇔

une chemise

3

⇔

et

4

⇔

une cravate

5

⇔

dans

6

⇔

le

7

⇔

bureau
Match the English question word to the French equivalent.

Combien ?

⇔

How much, how many? ✓

Qui ?

⇔

Who? ✓

Comment ?

⇔

How? ✓

Pourquoi ?

⇔

Why? ✓

Où ?

⇔

Where? ✓

Quel ?

⇔

Which, what? ✓
Choose the correct word to fill the gap: ______ usine as-tu visité ? (Which factory have you visited?)

quel

quelle ✓

quels

quelles
Choose the correct word to fill the gap: ______ hôpital.' (This hospital.)

ce

cette

cet ✓

ces

c'
What is the correct translation of 'rubbish'?

excellent

moyen

le mieux

nul ✓

pire

Exit quiz

Use ______, inversion or 'est-ce que' to ask questions in the perfect tense.

'intonation' ✓
Which letter is inserted in an inverted perfect tense question in order to help pronunciation?

s

t ✓

x

e

d
Indefinite adjectives go ______ the noun they describe.

'before' ✓
Tick the indefinite adjectives.

plusieurs ✓

beaucoup

quelque ✓

chaque ✓

parfois
Match the sentence halves.

Chaque

⇔

jour, je vais au boulot. ✓

Quelques

⇔

jours, je suis trop fatigué. ✓

J'ai le même

⇔

problème que toi. ✓

Toutes

⇔

usines sont fermées. ✓

Il y a plusieurs

⇔

collègues qui sont sympas ici. ✓

As-tu une autre

⇔

idée ? ✓
Match the English to the French.

occasion

⇔

chance, opportunity ✓

lourd

⇔

heavy ✓

étage

⇔

floor ✓

efficace

⇔

efficient, effective ✓

importance

⇔

importance ✓

secours

⇔

help, aid, assistance (in an emergency) ✓

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Key learning points

To ask a question in the perfect tense, use inversion, intonation or est-ce que.
t-liaison is common in inversion questions in the perfect tense: A-t-il gagné?
Indefinite adjectives are used to describe a noun in a non-specific sense. They go before the noun they describe.
Même(s)', 'autre(s)', and 'quelque(s)', meaning 'same', 'other' and 'some', agree in number with the noun.
'Tout le' meaning 'whole' or 'all' agrees in number and gender. 'Chaque' (each) and 'plusieurs' (several) do not change.

Common misconception

'Chaque' and 'plusieurs' change form and can be written as 'chaques' and 'plusieur'.

The indefinite adjectives 'chaque' and 'plusieurs' are invariable and only have the one form. As they are highly useful, encourage students to use them frequently in their work.

Keywords

T-liaison - pronouncing a usually silent 't' because a word starting with a vowel follows
Indefinite adjective - describes a noun in a non-specific sense, e.g. some, even, each