KS4 · French · Year 10
Recherches en ligne : negation with 'ne...pas', 'ne...jamais' and 'ne...rien'
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Your learning goal
I can research French travel information online and understand negation in written texts.
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Recherches en ligne : negation with 'ne...pas', 'ne...jamais' and 'ne...rien': 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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I can research French travel information online and understand negation in written texts.
Key learning points
- Use 'ne ... pas' for saying what doesn't happen, 'ne ... jamais' for 'never' and 'ne ... rien' for 'nothing'.
- Wrap 'ne ... pas', 'ne ... jamais' or 'ne ... rien' around the conjugated verb to make the sentence negative.
- With 'aller' + infinitive, the negative words wrap around the conjugated form of 'aller'.
Words to know
- negation
- makes a word, phrase or sentence negative, typically using words like ‘not’ in English, or the two elements 'ne … pas' in French
Common mistakes
The French for 'the Internet' is 'l'Internet'.
In common usage, the Internet is translated as 'internet' in French. It does not require a capital letter as it counts as a common noun. It is one of very few common nouns that doesn't require a determiner in common usage.
For parents, carers and teachers
- There are brief references to French transport websites in the lesson. Teachers may wish to explore these sites with students to give them real-world experience of dealing with French language websites, although it would be necessary to select the French language versions.