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LESSON 1

VerbCast11_hi IMPERFECT

 

Having heard the verbcast, can you now tell the difference between an imperfect and a perfect tense verb?

What patterns do you spot?

Download Module 3 IMPERFECT list

LESSON 2

http://quizlet.com/2381070/french-imperfect-tense-flash-cards/

Complete the quizlet games on the IMPERFECT TENSE by clicking on the link below.  You will need to have your foreign accents sheet to hand*

When you have completed all the games and are confident that you have a good understanding of how to form the IMPERFECT tense, click on the COMMENT box and write 50+ words in French descrbing what you were doing in the video clip below. 

You may need a dictionary. 

Remember if you have a good grasp of how to form the imperfect tense, why not now have a go at trying to adapt other verbs e.g. surfer(to surf) - je surfAIS

TEACHER INVADERS - Y10 SPRINTERS - TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF TOWN VOCAB / GRAMMAR

Download Teacher Invaders J'habite a Grenoble

 SWF  

Download Teacher invaders j'habite a Grenoble 

HTML

 

 

Y10 Perfect Podcasts - Il y a / Il n'y a pas de... (En ville)

 

Crime au château - Y91FL IMPERFECT TENSE WHODUNNIT!

Download _Crime_au_Chateau

Là où j’habite - Places Il y a / Il n' y a pas de/d' and GENDER (Magic cards)

 

Download Places il y a il n' y a pas de MAGIC CARDS

 

MAGIC VERB CARDS - a fantastic resource I discovered recently!

These magic verb cards (available in German Spanish and French to my knowledge) are available from www.advancematerials.co.uk and cost less than £7 including VAT for a full set and a couple of "magic" cards.  As you can see from the photo, pupils get the card and can see the whole phrase including the correct part of the verb.  When they have had some time to study the card, they are asked to cover it with the "magic" red card which hides the orange text ie. the verb.  Awesome!  We had great fun and the pupils are all much better with verbs - result!

 

Odd one out - Cherch l'intrus (Thinking skills)

Year 10 have been studying modal verbs alongside the past tense in FRENCH.  Some of them have struggled!

We have been using these odd one out exs in class to try and get pupils to justify thier answers in groups and to peer support eachother - afterall they get fed up of hearing me going on all the time!

They were all 100% accurate with their reasons and sometimes these sorts of activities lend themselves to surprising and unpredicted answers which can be equally right bit maybe nor quite the answer the teacher was looking for.

Let me know what you think :)

 
 

IMPERFECTDUKO - Thinking skills starter Y91FL

Imperfectduko - Thinking Skills Starter

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Y91FL MC Solaar - Les temps changent - IMPERFECT tense recognition

Les Temps Changent MC Solaar - Imperfect Tense Recognition

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Year 9 are working on the IMPERFECT at the moment in the context of what school used to be like.  We will be using this song and lyrics to see how many IMPERFECT tenses we can spot as we watch the video and hear the song.  The document contains : pages 1&2 - the lyrics with the IMPERFECT tenses hilighted and page 3 - this page has been cut up and the 11 phrases placed in emvelopes so pupils can reorder them according to the correct order in which they hear them.

Year 10 End of Module 2 Edexcel Grammar and Tenses revision

Year 10 end of term Grammar and Tenses revision

 

http://quizlet.com/947772/french-past-tense-flash-cards/

 

http://quizlet.com/410255/french-past-tense-flash-cards/

 

http://www.zut.org.uk 

 

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zut

 

http://www.zut.org.uk/beginner/year9/10462.html

 

Y9 Grammar

 

http://www.zut.org.uk/intermediate/year10/10819.html

 

Y10 & 11 Grammar

Y91FL French - The Imperfect Tense VERBCASTS - Kick back, relax & learn some grammar!

VerbCast11_hi

VerbCast12_hi

VerbCast13_hi

Year 8 French sing about clothes - ce, cette, ces

Please leave them a comment and let them know what you think.

Très tuneful, non?!!!

Y91FL L'école primaire - IMPERFECT TENSE PLTS / CASSE-TETE

Imperfect Tense L'Ecole Primaire CASSE-TETE

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Past tense with AVOIR - Y11 Rosbif Radio Song

Download Y11Fr passe compose

L'histoire du poussin & La maison d'ETRE - Clever ways of recalling Past tense with ETRE

http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/home/smazurelle/dynamots/a2/m5/gr_poussin.htm

LA MAISON D'ETRE

Another clever way of remembering past tense verbs which take ETRE

 - mainly verbs of movement

 

Non non et non! Y10 - Negatives in French.

Download Mod 2 negatives

(modified from Sutton High Website - merci beaucoup)
 

Y10 Modal Verbs & Excuses excuses!!! Pt2 - Dustbin game and more...

http://classtools.net/widgets/dustbin_5/QGIKv.htm

Click here for full screen version

 

http://classtools.net/widgets/dustbin_9/idkt0.htm

 

Click here for full screen version

 

http://classtools.net/widgets/quiz_7/vUguG.htm

 

Expressions of time - Past - Present - Future // Still - Forwards - Backwards

 

 Which of these expressions signifies past, present or future?

Stand up in the aisle and when you hear each one respond accordingly -

If you hear a present tense, stay still.

If you hear a past tense, move one step backwards.

If you hear a future tense, move one step forwards.

 

Sounds simple - here we go!

• Le week-end dernier

Demain

Ce soir

Le week-end

Hier

Le week-end prochain

Normalement

D'habitude

Samedi dernier

L'été dernier

 

Rosbif Radio - Y7 Pink Panther Techno - être

Here is a short song made by Y7 today to help them to remember one of

THE most important verbs in French - être.

Please leave us a comment and let us know what you make of our songsmith experiment!

 

 

The verb "to be" in French - chocolate and flowers and spiders!!!

Imagine a verb is like a bar of chocolate - made up of different pieces / parts.

Or like a flower with lots of different petals:

...or even a spider with eight legs!

 

 

Y8/9 Word order - future tense sentences

Je vais aller à la piscine avec ma mère car j’aime nager.

Le week-end prochain je vais faire du shopping en ville avec mes amis.

Samedi prochain je vais manger une crêpe en ville car j’adore les crêpes. 

Vendredi soir je vais aller au bowling avec mes parents car c’est mon anniversaire.

Je vais aller en boîte car j’aime danser à la disco avec ma copine et à mon avis ce sera génial.

 

 

Insert the sentences one by one by copying and pasting into www.tiny.cc/wordtiles and see if students can rearrange in correct order.

Y10 Thinking skills - categorisation ex Avoir and Être

 
Categorise the words above into the correct parts of the verbs to have and to be in French.

Think back to our beautifully tuneful (???) renditions of these verbs in class a few weeks ago :) Audio available as a podcast a few post down if you want to listen again!

la Maison d'Etre - will this help you to learn your past tense verbs which take ETRE?

Year 10 French Fling the Teacher - 25 vital verbs

Download Fling The Teacher 25 Vital Verbs French

 

Click on the link above to prove to Madame Bewell that you are SO BRILLIANT at French

that you can cope fine alone and quite literally fling her away!!!

Amusez-vous bien :)

The past tense in French - UPGRADE your work NOW!

 

 

French Timeline - PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE Tenses in French

Click below to download:

Download _French_time Line Verb_Tenses(1)

 

Learning Vocabulary Techniques

This Realplayer video teaches a few techniques to making it easier for students to remember vocabulary when learning a foreign language.

Download MFL_Memory

If you have trouble getting the video to play, go directly to the website:

http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/german/ger0018.html

NUDE PIGS!!! Giving Opinions in French.

GIVING OPINIONS

(Nude Pigs!!!)

 

Je pense que c’est – I think it’s

A mon avis, c’est -  In my opinion it’s

Pour moi, c’est – For me, it is

Je trouve que c’est – I find that it is

Personnellement,… - Personally,...

Don’t forget…

 

 

très – very  assez – quite

vraiment – really

N   nul

U  utile

D  drôle , débile , difficile           

    désagréable , dingue

E  extra , excellent, ennuyeux

P  passionnant , pénible,

I  intéressant , incroyable,        

     important , inutile

G  génial , gentil

S  super (cool), sensass ,

    stupide

 

 

Now test yourself...

N

 

U

 

D

 

E

 

P

 

I

 

G

 

S

 

-er verbs, IMPERFECT tense Y11 (French mp3 verbcast )

Click on the link below to access two of the twenty 15 min mp3 verbcasts (podcast).  They focus on -er verbs (episode 1) and the IMPERFECT tense  (episode 11).

If the download links do not work, click on the direct link to the website and scroll down until you find Episodes 1 and 11.

Don't forget to send your comments and tell me what you think :)

Download VerbCast01_hi ER VERBS AND NTRO

Download VerbCast11_hi IMPERFECT

http://www.verbcast.com/

VERBcast - Episode 1

 

Here's the first episode! Follow the links below to access the mp3 files. They can be downloaded and copied to your mp3 player, burned to CD, or listened to on your computer, but we would suggest that for best results you listen to each episode on headphones.

On today's show
This programme introduces you to the relaxation techniques you're going to be using in the series, and explains what verbs are. Regular -er verbs in the present tense are covered, using parler as an example.

 

VERBcast - Episode 11

 

Today's VERBcast is an important one. It's time to introduce a new tense, and we're covering quite important concepts today which you really need to understand. Hope you find the podcast useful.

On today's show
In episode 11 we're introducing the Imperfect tense, and the ideas behind it. We'll talk you through how it's used, and in particular the difference between the perfect and imperfect tenses. We'll give examples using a regular -er verb in the imperfect: parler

 

 

Here's the first episode! Follow the links below to access the mp3 files. They can be downloaded and copied to your mp3 player, burned to CD, or listened to on your computer, but we would suggest that for best results you listen to each episode on headphones.

On today's show
This programme introduces you to the relaxation techniques you're going to be using in the series, and explains what verbs are. Regular -er verbs in the present tense are covered, using parler as an example.

 

VERBcast - Episode 11

 

Today's VERBcast is an important one. It's time to introduce a new tense, and we're covering quite important concepts today which you really need to understand. Hope you find the podcast useful.

On today's show
In episode 11 we're introducing the Imperfect tense, and the ideas behind it. We'll talk you through how it's used, and in particular the difference between the perfect and imperfect tenses. We'll give examples using a regular -er verb in the imperfect: parler

 

 

How to form the past tense in French

Modern French Grammar E-book

Modern French Grammar

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French Grammar Workbook

Modern French Grammar - Workbook

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French Grammar Guide

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Voyage a l'avenir avec Docteur Qui! Travel into the future with Doctor Who!

French Verbs made Fun! ALL TENSES

http://www.takatamuser.com/jeu_verbe/menu.php?class_id=2

Follow the link and get to grips with a huge list of french verbs in a variety of tenses.  C'est vraiment génial! 

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