KS4 · French · Year 11
Un portrait coloré : extended speaking
Lifestyle and wellbeing/Travel and tourism: la culture francophone
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Your learning goal
I can describe a picture in detail, incorporating a range of language and opinions, with reasons.
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Un portrait coloré : extended 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 a picture in detail, incorporating a range of language and opinions, with reasons.
Key learning points
- Including a range of direct object, indirect object and emphatic pronouns and possessive adjectives adds complexity.
- When describing a picture mention: people, action, location, mood and season.
- It is important to listen carefully for question type and tense in conversation questions.
Words to know
- possessive adjective
- a word that goes before a noun to show ownership or belonging
- 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
- emphatic pronoun
- used to emphasise the subject of a sentence, in comparisons, and after 'c'est'
Common mistakes
Direct object pronouns can be used with verbs followed by 'à' like 'demander' and 'donner'.
Indirect object pronouns should be used with these verbs because you ask 'of' and give 'to' someone in French. In English, the 'to' is often dropped with these kinds of verbs, e.g. 'je lui donne un cadeau' - 'I give (to) him, her a present'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Teachers may wish to change the images that have been chosen to provide stimulus for written and spoken responses.