KS4 · French · Year 11
Au Maroc : read and respond to texts
Lifestyle and wellbeing/Travel and tourism: la culture francophone
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IllumED Slides
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Your learning goal
I can read and respond to extended texts about cultural groups in Morocco and I can use regular and irregular present participles.
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Au Maroc : read and respond to texts: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
Original teaching resources
The original illustrated PowerPoint is available as well as the IllumED text slides. It retains the publisher’s design and credits.
Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can read and respond to extended texts about cultural groups in Morocco and I can use regular and irregular present participles.
Key learning points
- Some regular present participles are: partant, venant, ouvrant, choisissant, entendant, prenant, connaissant, écrivant.
- The present participle of faire is 'faisant'; 'faisant de' + noun means making something.
- The irregular present participles of être and avoir are 'étant' and 'ayant'.
- Extended reading texts can be exploited to enrich our thematic vocabulary and use of complex structures.
Words to know
- present participle
- a verb form used to show how something happens, something that is happening at the same time, or to give a reason for something
Common mistakes
Present participles are always preceeded by 'en'.
The present participles 'ayant', 'étant' and 'faisant de' can be used without the preposition 'en' e.g. 'Ayant une grand-mère musulmane, je sais beaucoup sur l'Islam' - having a muslim grandmother, I know a lot about Islam.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Task B2b has two options. Option 1 is aimed at the majority of students and Option 2 provides a more structured and shorter format to the task, for students who need more support with completing the task.