Où habiter : extended writing | French | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

Which words are feminine nouns?

rôle

sortie ✓

veille ✓

point

timide
Which sentence is in the imperfect tense?

Je vais en ville avec mes amies.

Je voudrais aller en ville avec mes amies.

Je voulais aller en ville avec mes amies. ✓

Je suis allée en ville avec mes amies.
Match the imperfect verb endings with the subject pronouns.

tu

⇔

-ais ✓

elle

⇔

-ait ✓

elles

⇔

-aient ✓

nous

⇔

-ions ✓

vous

⇔

-iez ✓
Match the French and the English verb phrases.

j'allais

⇔

I used to go ✓

j'étais

⇔

I used to be, was ✓

j'avais

⇔

I used to have ✓

je voyais

⇔

I used to see ✓

je faisais

⇔

I used to do, make ✓

je buvais

⇔

I used to drink ✓
Complete the translation: 'Réussir à l'école est difficile ______'. (Succeeding at school is difficult for her)

'pour elle' ✓
Put the words in order to make a sentence.

1

⇔

ils

2

⇔

aiment

3

⇔

aller

4

⇔

aux

5

⇔

fêtes

6

⇔

comme

7

⇔

nous

Exit quiz

Which tense is needed to write this sentence in French? When I was young, I would eat vegetables.

'Imperfect' ✓
Translate the missing part of the sentence into French: 'Quand j'étais petit(e), ______ à l'école'. (When I was little, I would walk to school)

'je marchais' ✓
What does the O in BORDER stand for?

Ordinary

Order

Opinion ✓

Onomatopoeia

Original
Which sentence contains an example of Development?

J'aime ma ville.

Il y a beaucoup de choses à faire.

Mes parents n'aiment pas habiter ici. ✓

Je vais souvent en ville avec eux et ça me plait beaucoup.

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Key learning points

Moi, toi, lui, elle, nous, vous, eux, elles are used to mean me, you, him, her, us, you and them as emphatic pronouns.
It is important to plan both the ideas and language needed and to think about structure when writing a longer text.

Common misconception

Sentences such as 'when I was little, I would do the shopping with my mother' can be translated by using both the imperfect tense and the conditional mood.

In French, when writing or translating sentences about what used to happen, all verbs should be in the imperfect tense. 'Used to' and 'would' (meaning habitually) are translated by the imperfect.

Keywords

Imperfect tense - tense used to describe how things were or used to be in the past, or to say what was happening
Conditional - verb form used to mean what could or would happen under certain conditions
Emphatic pronoun - used to emphasize a person, or when the pronoun stands alone, or after certain prepositions