KS4 · French · Year 11
Une visite en ville : role-play
Lifestyle and wellbeing/Travel and tourism: la culture francophone
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Your learning goal
I can ask and answer questions in a role-play scenario in a Francophone city, incorporating the imperative.
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I can ask and answer questions in a role-play scenario in a Francophone city, incorporating the imperative.
Key learning points
- Using the imperative in conversation enables the speaker to give instructions and advice, or to make suggestions.
- In a role-play it's important to work out whether you will be addressed as ‘vous’ (formal) or ‘tu’ (informal).
- You need to use the correct 'please': 's'il vous plait' in a formal setting, and 's'il te plait' for a friend.
Words to know
- imperative
- a mood used to tell somebody to do something or give instructions or commands
- role-play
- a task with a situation and prompts to ask and answer questions, simulating a conversation
Common mistakes
When making suggestions, 'let's' needs to be said in French as a separate idea.
In French, use the imperative in the 'nous' form to create the phrase 'let's + verb', e.g. 'allons ...' means 'let's go ...'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Task B1 has two parts to allow students to practise role-play scenarios in pairs. The first is informal, the second in a formal setting. Teachers can use either or both as appropriate. However, the ability to understand formal register in spoken language is important for both specifications.