Starter quiz
- Which verbs can be used to describe the weather?
- il veut
- il faut
- il y a ✓
- il peut
- il fait ✓
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- Which verb is missing? ______ huit heures.
- il fait
- il est ✓
- il faut
- il y a
- il veut
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- Complete the sentence: the verbs 'apparaitre', 'naitre', 'paraitre' and 'disparaitre' are all formed in the present tense like ...
- 'connaitre' ✓
- What is the past participle of 'naitre'?
- 'né' ✓
- Translate the sentence: We are familiar with the school in this town.
- 1⇔nous
- 2⇔connaissons
- 3⇔l'école
- 4⇔dans
- 5⇔cette
- 6⇔ville
- Match the vocabulary.
- châtain⇔brown (hair) ✓
- lunettes⇔glasses ✓
- marron⇔brown (eyes) ✓
- roux⇔red/ginger ✓
- fidèle⇔loyal, faithful ✓
- mental⇔mental ✓
Exit quiz
- Match the phrases together.
- il faut⇔it is necessary, must ✓
- il y a⇔there is, there are ✓
- il est difficile de⇔it is difficult to ✓
- il est⇔it is (time) ✓
- il fait⇔it is (weather) ✓
- il est facile de⇔it is easy to ✓
- Match the times of day.
- 06.25⇔Il est six heures vingt-cinq. ✓
- 14.30⇔Il est quatorze heures et demie. ✓
- 4.30⇔Il est quatre heures et demie. ✓
- 17.15⇔Il est dix-sept heures et quart. ✓
- 7.15⇔Il est sept heures et quart. ✓
- 16.25⇔Il est seize heures vingt-cinq. ✓
- Choose the correct translation of 'it is forbidden to'.
- il est interdit de ✓
- il faut
- il est facile de
- il fait
- il est difficile de
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- The impersonal verb structures 'il est difficile de', 'il est interdit de' and 'il faut' are followed by an ...
- 'infinitive' ✓
- Which words contain the sounds [i] or [y] in French?
- there ✓
- bed ✓
- to send, sending
- cat
- brother
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- Translate: he thinks that it is relatively cold today.
- 1⇔il
- 2⇔pense
- 3⇔qu'il
- 4⇔fait
- 5⇔relativement
- 6⇔froid
- 7⇔aujourd'hui
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Key learning points
- An impersonal verb is a verb and subject that don't refer to a particular person or thing.
- To say what time it is use impersonal verb il est + number + heure (s) + minutes.
- Il est + adjective + de + infinitive can be used to express it is difficult/easy/forbidden to + a verb.
- Il fait (with weather expressions), il y a (there is/are) and il faut (it is necessary) are useful impersonal verbs.
- [y] and [i] sounds like 'midi' and 'physique'.
Common misconception
The subject pronoun 'il' always means 'he'.
There are a number of impersonal verbs such as 'il faut', 'il neige' and 'il pleut'. Verbs such as 'il fait' and 'il est' can also be used in an impersonal sense. In these cases, the English meaning is 'it' or impersonal 'you', 'we' as appropriate.
Keywords
Impersonal verb - a verb that doesn't refer to a particular person or thing, and whose subject is most often 'il' (it)
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