Les pour et les contre d'un travail : extended writing and speaking | French

Starter quiz

Which words are adverbs?

mauvais

mal ✓

réellement ✓

rapide

lentement ✓
Match the French and English adverbs.

différemment

⇔

differently ✓

suffisamment

⇔

sufficiently ✓

prudemment

⇔

carefully ✓

facilement

⇔

easily ✓

sensiblement

⇔

sensitively ✓

malheureusement

⇔

unfortunately ✓
What is the adverb meaning 'apparently' formed from the French adjective 'apparent'?

'apparemment' ✓
'Juste' means fair. What is the French for unfair?

'injuste' ✓
Put the words in order to make this sentence: His dual role is hard for him.

1

⇔

son

2

⇔

double

3

⇔

rôle

4

⇔

est

5

⇔

dur

6

⇔

pour

7

⇔

lui
Which adjective completes the sentence? 'Elle est ______ de son équipe.'

utile

responsable ✓

importante

ennuyeuse

Exit quiz

Which letters are part of an acronym to remind what to include when describing a picture?

P ✓

A ✓

E

L ✓

M ✓
To which adjectives can the prefix in- be added to make the antonym (opposite meaning)?

possible

juste ✓

probable

différent ✓

visible ✓
What is the antonym of 'poli'?

'impoli' ✓
Which sentence goes with each focus when describing a picture?

People, objects

⇔

Je vois plusieurs personnes, un homme, deux femmes et cinq enfants. ✓

Action

⇔

Ils sont en train de faire le ménage. ✓

Location

⇔

Il me semble qu'ils sont dans la cuisine. ✓

Mood

⇔

Ils ne sont pas heureux. Peut-être, ils n'aiment pas aider. ✓

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Key learning points

Pre-rehearsal, focusing on range of language and accuracy of pronunciation, improves performance in speaking tasks.
Being able to apply word patterns, such as creating antonyms or adverbs from adjectives, expands our vocabulary.
Listening to texts and identifying sound-spelling links is crucial to good pronunciation of trickier sounds e.g. im/in.

Common misconception

To create antonyms in French, always add the prefix in- to the start of an adjective or adverb e.g. 'utile' becomes 'inutile'.

Some antonyms are formed by adding the prefix im-. This is when the original word begins with p, b or m: possible become impossible; buvable (drinkable) becomes imbuvable (undrinkable); 'mature' becomes 'immature'.

Keywords

Adverb - word that describes a verb or an adjective
Antonym - a word that has the opposite meaning to another word