KS4 · French · Year 11
Un ado francophone : present tense, picture task (AQA)
Communication and the world around us: Révisions: la vie en francophonie
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Your learning goal
I can use regular and irregular verbs in the present tense to describe the life of a teenager.
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I can use regular and irregular verbs in the present tense to describe the life of a teenager.
Key learning points
- -er verbs take the following endings in the present tense: je-e, tu-es, il/elle/on-e, nous-ons, vous-ez, ils/elles-ent.
- Four groups of -re verbs are: verbs like entendre, verbs like prendre, verbs like traduire and verbs like écrire.
- Four groups of -ir verbs are: verbs like choisir, verbs like partir, verbs like venir and verbs like ouvrir.
- The verbs aller (to go), avoir (to have), être (to be) and faire (to do, make) are irregular in the present.
- The verbs voir (to see), boire (to drink), croire (to believe) are also irregular in the present.
Words to know
- simple present
- describes habitual events in the present: 'I do'
- present continuous
- describes events happening right now: 'I am doing'
Common mistakes
The present continous in English has a direct translation in French.
Students need to take care to translate both the simple present and the present continous with the present tense in French e.g. I listen and I am listening are translated exactly the same way: j'écoute.
For parents, carers and teachers
- There are two versions of the translation task in learning cycle 2. Option 1 is for higher students and Option 2 is for foundation students. Option 1 is included in the video.