KS2 · French · Year 6
Activities at home: negation
What I and others do: 'faire' singular persons, qu'est-ce que
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Your learning goal
I can form positive and negative sentences with singular forms of 'faire' to describe what I and others do, and don't do, at home.
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I can form positive and negative sentences with singular forms of 'faire' to describe what I and others do, and don't do, at home.
Key learning points
- Numbers 1-31 in French are tricky to remember and so they must be practised regularly.
- The verb 'faire' means both 'to do, doing' and 'to make, making'.
- 'I do, make' is 'je fais', 'he does, makes' is 'il fait' and 'she does, makes' is 'elle fait'.
- Negative sentences in English have 'don't' before the verb. In French we 'sandwich' the verb between 'ne' and 'pas'.
- For example: 'je fais le lit' (positive) and 'je ne fais pas le lit' (negative).
Words to know
- negative
- expresses negative meaning, showing that something is not true, does not happen or does not exist
- ne ... pas
- used around a verb to make the sentence negative: je ne fais pas l’activité
Common mistakes
To make sentences negative in French, you need to put the equivalent of 'don't' before the main verb.
To make sentences negative in French, you 'sandwich' the main verb between 'ne' and 'pas'. There are two elements which need to be in place. For example: 'je fais le ménage' (positive) 'je ne fais pas le ménage' (negative).
For parents, carers and teachers
- If you have time, this lesson lends itself well to a survey-style 'sondage' activity where students have to find someone in the class who does and doesn't do the six main home activities mentioned in the lesson, as in exercise C3.