Pour se préparer au GCSE, les 9ièmes ont préparé des petites présentations sur le présent et les verbes. J'espère que cela les aidera l'année prochaine!
We have done the perfect. It is used in the past as well. What is the difference?
The imperfect describe an action in the past. You would use was or were in English. (The weather was nice. They were lots of beaches to explore)
It could also something that you used to do ( I used to play a lot of sport when I was your age. I did not use to watch telly all the time.)
How do you form the imperfect tense?
You need to look at the present tense of the verb that you want to use so for I used to play, you would look at to play= jouer in the present tense: Je joue etc. Then look at the nous form- nous jouons. When you have this, remove the nous and the -ons. You are left with the stem jou-
Use this to conjugate your verb and add the following endings:
Nearly all of them. To be: être is the only exception- You use the stem ét- instead.
Can we have some examples?
faire --- nous faisons. Remove nous and ons and conjugate
je faisais
tu faisais
il/elle/on faisait
nous faisions
vous faisiez
ils/elles faisaient
Now listen to this song. It is quite an old song but it tells the story of a young man who used to buy a pain au chocolat every morning at the bakery's. The young lady behind the counter was in love with him ......
Look at the worksheets below- You listen and complete with the appropriate missing verb. You can also cut the sentences and put them in the right order. I am also including the lyrics. To follow up make a cartoon of the song, you can use toondoon or Go animate.
Before embarking on jobs, year 9 have revised the family. I wanted to revise personal pronouns especially mon, ma, mes as students will use these for written tasks. Claude François (aka Cloclo) was one of my favorite singer and "Si j'avais un marteau" springs to my mind when mentioning members of the family. We listened to the song and I issued each table of 4 students with a word from the song. They had to stand up every time they heard it. It was a fun activity and certainly raised their listening skills.
The words are below
Suggested words to listen for:
Marteau, cloche, ferme, bonheur, le jour, la nuit, la soupe, chanson, heureux, liberté, coeur,
Afterwards we concentrated on the personal pronouns and students did not have any problems in identifying the personal pronouns. We were able to establish the following rule:
Je is I and my is mon for masculine, ma for feminine and mes for plural
Tu is you and your is ton for masculine, ta for feminine and tes for plural
Il is he and his is son for masculine, sa for feminine and ses for plural
Elle is she and her is son for masculine, sa for feminine and ses for pluraI
An idea would be to create a little rap to remember the pronouns, here is an idea, please submit yours! A prize for the best one brought to me in class next week!
As you know, I a very keen to use songs and poetry to teach grammar. Year 10 have been revising the future tense.
One of my favorite poem is "Demain dès l'aube" by Victor Hugo. Previously, we had looked at how the future is formed. We looked at the following Powerpoint (not mine! thanks to the author if (s)he reads this post. Download Futur
Voici les questions que j'ai posées après avoir écouté la chanson:
Comment est la chanson? (gaie / triste/ mélancolique etc..)
Quel instrument de musique reconnaissez-vous?
Quels mots avez-vous reconnus?
We then looked at this website. We talked about Victor Hugo and his work especially the work that they all knew but were not aware of- "Notre Dame de Paris" and "Les Misérables".
We read the poem and looked at the photos and listened to the music.
J'ai ensuite posé ces questions
Qu'est-ce que la musique représente pour vous?
Quel est le thème du poëme?
Quels sont vos impressions - Je pense que / A mon avis c'est...
Soulignez les verbes au futur en orange, présent en vert.
Surlignez les mots transparents
Recherchez 5 mots dans le dictionnaire - comparez avec votre partenaire et les autres élèves sur votre table.
Everybody enjoyed the poem, we translated it together and they read it in pairs. One student volunteered to record herself, she did it spontaneously and this is her first attempt:
We have been using different tools in the classroom to produce role-plays. Recently, I was recommended xtranormal, a progamme which produces movies from texts. Here is my first attempt, make yourown and send it to me
Year 8 and 10 have been working on le "Passé-Composé. During the lessons, I have used the following Powerpoints which I acquired from another on MFL resources forum a few years ago. I do not know the author but would like to thank him or her. The Powerpoints are easy to follow and should help you undestand / revise
You can also get a lot of help from The languages on line website- choose French and then scroll down to Grammar and do the exercises on Perfect tense.
In class, we have been listening to "Les bêtises by Bébé Lily"- this is the story of a little girl who gets up to a lot of mischief when her parents are out
Practise some the sentences from the song on this Task magic exercise :Download Bebe lily You will need to download the home version if you want to use it from home.
