KS4 · French · Year 11
Une visite à Cannes : past versus present, conversation (Edexcel)
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Your learning goal
I can use present and perfect tenses, including reflexive verbs, to describe a visit to Cannes.
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I can use present and perfect tenses, including reflexive verbs, to describe a visit to Cannes.
Key learning points
- Combining the perfect tense and the present tense is a useful way to contrast past and present activities.
- When translating, it's important to pay attention to the gender and number of nouns and alter endings accordingly.
- In conversation, it is useful to combine tenses when giving an answer to develop the conversation.
Words to know
- perfect tense
- a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past, e.g. 'I said', 'she played'
Common mistakes
I can only answer conversation questions in the same tense as the question.
After responding appropriately to the initial question, it is a good idea to use different tenses in your answer to develop your response and to give interesting detail.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Task C2 could be scaffolded for more support by giving students a list of topic related questions or by writing/displaying relevant questions on the board for pupils to refer to.