Starter quiz
- Match the French and English.
- avenir⇔future ✓
- encore⇔again ✓
- en retard⇔late ✓
- madame⇔Miss ✓
- monsieur⇔Sir ✓
- assez⇔quite ✓
- What does the verb 'dire' mean?
- to go, going
- to say, tell; saying, telling ✓
- to leave, leaving
- to take, taking
- to choose, choosing
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- Put the French numbers in descending order (biggest to smallest).
- 1⇔trente
- 2⇔vingt
- 3⇔seize
- 4⇔quatorze
- 5⇔douze
- 6⇔dix
- 7⇔cinq
- What's the French word for 'today'?
- aujourd'hui ✓
- entre
- partout
- peut-être
- pour
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- Write in French: 'I have'.
- 'j'ai' ✓
- Write the feminine form of the adjective 'new'.
- 'nouvelle' ✓
Exit quiz
- Match the French and English.
- ambitieux, ambitieuse⇔ambitious ✓
- prudent(e)⇔careful ✓
- travailleur, travailleuse⇔hard working ✓
- appartement⇔apartment ✓
- banque⇔bank ✓
- marché⇔market ✓
- Which letters are usually silent final consonants in French?
- c
- r
- s ✓
- t ✓
- x ✓
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- Which places contain the sound [gn] in French?
- France
- England
- Germany ✓
- Spain ✓
- Algeria
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- Which words are past participles?
- dis
- dit ✓
- fais
- fait ✓
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- We use the ______ tense to refer to completed past actions in French.
- 'perfect' ✓
- Order the words to say: 'Yesterday, I went on a trip and now I'm doing the housework'.
- 1⇔hier
- 2⇔j'ai
- 3⇔fait
- 4⇔un voyage et maintenant
- 5⇔je
- 6⇔fais
- 7⇔le ménage
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- [gn] sounds like 'ligne'.
- Use the perfect tense to say what you did in the past.
- To say what I did, use 'j'ai' and a past participle.
- The past participles of 'dire' and 'faire' are 'dit' and 'fait'.
- The past participles 'dit' and 'fait' sound identical to the present tense verb forms.
Common misconception
There is no difference in French between the present and perfect tense forms 'I do' and 'I did', 'I say' and 'I said', because they sound the same.
The spellings of the past participles 'fait' and 'dit' are different to the first person (I) present tense but sound the same because of silent final consonants. Another difference is using 'j'ai' before past participles to say 'I did'.
Keywords
[gn] - pronounced as in 'ligne'
Perfect tense - a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past, e.g. 'I said', 'she did'
Past participle - verb that forms the perfect tense, usually together with a present tense form of 'avoir'
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