KS4 · French · Year 10
Mon voyage dangereux : extended writing and speaking
My neighbourhood: Mon nouveau pays
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can exploit a longer written text to improve my vocabulary and grammar knowledge, to develop my reading skills and to create my own extended text on a contemporary issue.
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Mon voyage dangereux : extended writing and speaking: 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 exploit a longer written text to improve my vocabulary and grammar knowledge, to develop my reading skills and to create my own extended text on a contemporary issue.
Key learning points
- Direct and indirect object pronouns precede both parts of the verb (auxiliary and past participle) in the perfect tense.
- Direct and indirect object pronouns can be usefully combined to create complex texts.
- It is important to plan both the ideas and language needed and to think about structure when writing a longer text.
- It is important to create a checklist both for range of language and for accuracy when creating a longer text.
Words to know
- verb
- word that communicates actions or states
- direct object pronoun
- replaces the noun receiving the action of the verb, e.g., me, you, it, them
- indirect object pronoun
- replaces the person, people or thing(s) that the verb action is done to, when the action is to me, for you, to them
Common mistakes
The noun 'un être', meaning 'a being', changes to 'une être' when referring to a girl or woman. 'Un être humain' changes to 'une être humaine' in the feminine.
The noun 'être' is masculine, even when referring to a girl or a woman. The phrase 'un être humain', 'a human being', refers to both genders.
For parents, carers and teachers
- When teaching the slide about the start of an account of a difficult journey, take time to talk through all the verb phrases. Explain why each is in the form it is in (tense, person agreement, etc.) and remind students that the theme requires phrasing to refer to the past.