KS4 · French · Year 11
La vie quotidienne : perfect and imperfect tenses, relative clauses and negation
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Your learning goal
I can discuss everyday life in the past, combining imperfect and perfect tenses, negation and relative clauses.
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I can discuss everyday life in the past, combining imperfect and perfect tenses, negation and relative clauses.
Key learning points
- Using the perfect tense and imperfect tense together enables us to express ongoing and isolated events in the past.
- Using qui, que, où and quand in relative clauses provides more information and adds complexity.
- Using a range of negative structures adds subtlety and complexity to descriptions and opinions.
- Combining different tenses allows students to give a more developed answers to conversation questions.
Words to know
- relative pronoun
- a pronoun that introduces a relative clause
Common mistakes
Answers to conversation questions should only be given in the same tense as the question.
Students should develop answers to conversation questions in order to give additional information and detail. Using different tenses allows students to give a more detailed and complex answer.
For parents, carers and teachers
- For the final speaking task, C1, encourage students to only make brief notes to refer to as prompts in order to encourage more spontaneity and interaction.