KS4 · French · Year 10
Chez moi, chez toi : prepositions and emphatic pronouns 'moi', 'toi' ...
My neighbourhood: Là où j'habite
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Your learning goal
I can use a range of prepositions and emphatic pronouns to contrast where I and other people live.
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I can use a range of prepositions and emphatic pronouns to contrast where I and other people live.
Key learning points
- Emphatic pronouns are often used after prepositions.
- Emphatic pronouns include 'moi' ('me') and 'toi' ('you'). They apply only to people, not things.
- 'Sans' (without), 'pour' (for), 'avant' (before) and 'chez' (at the house/place of) are followed by emphatic pronouns.
- [an] sounds like 'enfant' and [oi] sounds like 'voir'.
Words to know
- preposition
- a word that is used before a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun, connecting it to another word
- emphatic pronoun
- used to emphasise a person, or when the pronoun stands alone, or after certain prepositions
Common mistakes
The letter combinations [en] and [an] are pronounced differently in French.
The letter combinations [en] and [an] make the same sound in French, as can be heard in the word 'enfant'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Task B2 focuses on Higher-level structures. There are two version of the task. Option 2 is designed to support students in accessing the material who may otherwise struggle.