KS2 · French · Year 4
Family activities: singular regular -er verbs
Activities: singular regular -ER verbs
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I can use singular -er verbs to say what I do at the weekend.
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I can use singular -er verbs to say what I do at the weekend.
Key learning points
- Accents can change the pronunciation of a letter in French. The SSCs [e], [è] and [é] make different sounds.
- 'Manger' (to eat) and 'passer' (to spend) are two regular -er verbs.
- In French, there is only one way to talk about things in the present tense: je regarde.
- In English, there are two ways to refer to the present: I watch and I am watching.
- Regular -er verbs have the following endings in the singular form: (je) -e, (tu) -es, (il) -e and (elle) -e.
Words to know
- [e]
- prnounced as in 'cheval'
- [è]
- pronounced as in 'frère'
- [é]
- pronounced as in 'répéter'
- -er verb
- a verb which has an infinitive form ending in -er
- present tense
- describing an action that is currently happening, or an event that happens regularly
Common mistakes
There are two ways of referring to the present tense in French, as in English. For example: I watch and I am watching.
There is only one way to refer to the present tense in French: je regarde. This can be translated as both 'I watch', and 'I am watching'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Ask pupils to share what they do at the weekend, using the nine verbs learnt today in class.