KS4 · French · Year 11
L'histoire du Québec : articles and imperfect tense, role-play (AQA)
Communication and the world around us: Révisions: la vie en francophonie
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Your learning goal
I can use a range of articles, understand the history of Quebec described using the imperfect tense, and respond confidently to a role-play scenario centred on tourism.
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L'histoire du Québec : articles and imperfect tense, role-play (AQA): 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.
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can use a range of articles, understand the history of Quebec described using the imperfect tense, and respond confidently to a role-play scenario centred on tourism.
Key learning points
- Use le/la/les (definite articles) to mean 'the' and un/une/des (indefinite articles) to mean 'a' or 'some' in plural.
- Use un/une (indefinite article) to describe 'whole' things, and du/de la/de l' (partitive article) for 'parts' of things
- Indefinite articles (un, une, des) and partitive articles (du, de la, de l', des) change to 'de' after a negative.
- The imperfect tense is used to describe what 'was happening' or what you 'were doing' or what you 'used to' do.
- Quebec is the largest of the thirteen provinces of Canada and its official language is French.
Words to know
- imperfect tense
- tense used to describe how things were or used to be in the past, or to say what was happening
Common mistakes
Use the same articles for nouns after negative structures.
After a negative structures (e.g. 'je n'ai pas'), indefinite and partitive articles change to 'de', e.g. 'je n'ai pas d'information' - 'I don't have any information'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Encourage students to practise giving answers to the role-play task which include a verb. Brief answers (without a verb) are not able to be awarded marks.