KS3 · French · Year 8
Weekday routine: inversion questions, negation
Everyday life: -ER verbs in the present and past
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Your learning goal
I can use inversion and negation to ask and answer questions about my everyday activities.
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I can use inversion and negation to ask and answer questions about my everyday activities.
Key learning points
- Change statements into questions in French with raised intonation; a question word at the end gets more information.
- More formal inversion yes/no questions swap subject and verb; question words go at the start of information questions.
- For negation meaning 'not', put ne … pas around the first verb in a sentence; ne shortens to n' before a vowel.
- To develop productive skills, keep a bank of vocabulary with words from texts, glossaries or the dictionary.
Words to know
- intonation
- rise and fall of the voice in speaking
- inversion
- when the subject pronoun and the verb switch place to form a question
- negation
- two elements e.g. ne … pas around the main verb expressing negative meaning
Common mistakes
If you use inversion and add a question word, you don't need to change your intonation.
Even when using inversion and/or question words, still raise your voice at the end of a sentence in French when asking a question.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Activity 2a could be extended as a speaking or writing exercise where students make all the sentences questions with question words. You could encourage students to have part of their books/folders where they have their own list of vocabulary they add to when lessons mention 'personal repertoire'.