KS4 · French · Year 10
Un membre de la famille que j'admire : extended writing and speaking
My personal world: Ma famille
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can describe family members and relationships using a range of articles, possessive adjectives, and gender and number agreement of nouns.
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Un membre de la famille que j'admire : 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
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can describe family members and relationships using a range of articles, possessive adjectives, and gender and number agreement of nouns.
Key learning points
- 'Moi-même', 'toi-même', etc. emphasise a person's involvement in an action and are translated as myself, yourself, etc.
- It is important to plan the ideas, the vocabulary and the grammar to be included when writing a longer text.
- Careful planning of a speaking task, pre-rehearsal and immediate repetition of the task all improve performance.
- When developing a personal response, it's helpful to use a dictionary to look up new vocabulary.
Words to know
- même
- pronominal adjective meaning 'same', e.g. 'la même personne'
- moi-même
- emphatic reflexive pronoun 'myself'
- toi-même
- emphatic reflexive pronoun 'yourself'
- elle-même
- emphatic reflexive pronoun 'herself'
- lui-même
- emphatic reflexive pronoun 'himself'
Common mistakes
You can just learn set sentences by heart and produce them mechanically when requested.
Both writing and speaking must be adapted to the question and have a level of personalisation and spontaneity.
For parents, carers and teachers
- There are two options in certain exercices to support differentiation.