KS4 · French · Year 10
Quelques difficultés au travail : past tense questions, indefinite adjectives
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Your learning goal
I can ask and answer questions in the perfect tense to discuss experiences in the workplace, and use indefinite adjectives to describe people and things.
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I can ask and answer questions in the perfect tense to discuss experiences in the workplace, and use indefinite adjectives to describe people and things.
Key learning points
- To ask a question in the perfect tense, use inversion, intonation or est-ce que.
- t-liaison is common in inversion questions in the perfect tense: A-t-il gagné?
- Indefinite adjectives are used to describe a noun in a non-specific sense. They go before the noun they describe.
- Même(s)', 'autre(s)', and 'quelque(s)', meaning 'same', 'other' and 'some', agree in number with the noun.
- 'Tout le' meaning 'whole' or 'all' agrees in number and gender. 'Chaque' (each) and 'plusieurs' (several) do not change.
Words to know
- t-liaison
- pronouncing a usually silent 't' because a word starting with a vowel follows
- indefinite adjective
- describes a noun in a non-specific sense, e.g. some, even, each
Common mistakes
'Chaque' and 'plusieurs' change form and can be written as 'chaques' and 'plusieur'.
The indefinite adjectives 'chaque' and 'plusieurs' are invariable and only have the one form. As they are highly useful, encourage students to use them frequently in their work.
For parents, carers and teachers
- If time permits, it would be useful vocabulary practice for students to translate task B1 into English.