French Year 7 booklet

Bonjour Year 7!

Over the next 5 weeks, you will be completing work based on knowledge that we have covered in lessons. This booklet is designed to give you practice with:

reading translation guided writing

This booklet comprises of 6 lessons (including a bonus for half term) 1. w/c 20th April 2. w/c 27th April 3. w/c 4th May 4. w/c 11th May 5. w/c 18th May 6. w/c 25th May (half term)

There is a quiz to complete at the end of each lesson, and there is an end of booklet quiz to complete after the 5 weeks. Ensure you complete the quizzes without looking at your lesson, so that you can check that you have understood. Additional work with access to the internet: Remember to protect yourself when accessing online websites.

Practise pronunciation- online https://ttsmp3.com/text-to-speech/French/ (type the word down and click “read”, the computer will read it to you. This can be accessed from a smart phone or on a computer. Practise grammar-online www.languagesonlines,org

Bonne chance!!

Team French

Week 3: Using ‘jouer’, ‘aller’ and ‘faire’ in the present tense

sent tense

Task 1: Practice: Using the pattern from ‘regarder’ above , match up the endings to make the present tense of ‘jouer’.

je jou__

tu jou___

il/elle/on jou___

nous jou______

vous jou______

ils/ elles jou_____

Task 2: Translate into French

a) We play - _________________________b) She plays - ________________________c) I play - ___________________________d) You play (singular, informal) - __________________________e) You play (plural, formal) - ______________________________f) He plays - _________________________

ez ons

ent e

e es

Prior Knowledge check: Fill in the gaps, using the words in the yellow box

An infinitive is the basic form of the ____________. It is found in the

_____________. It means ‘_____’ do something. Examples of ___________

include ‘jouer’ (to play), ‘aller’ (to go) and ‘__________’ (to do/ make).

faire

dictionary

to

verb

infinitives

Task 3: Practice: Choose the correct verb

The verb “aller” is an odd one out and will NOT follow the regular pattern

Example: 1) Elle va à la piscine.

Task 4: Correct the mistake!

1) Je fait - _____________2) Nous faitons - _____________3) Il faite - _____________4) Elles fait - ____________5) On fais - _____________6) Vous faisons - _____________

Task 5: Translate into French

1) I do - _____________2) I go - _____________3) I play - _____________4) We go - ___________________5) We play - __________________6) He does - __________________7) She goes - _________________8) You (singular) play - ______________9) You (plural) go - _________________10) We do - ___________________

Challenge! Translate into English.

Normalement, le weekend, je vais au cinéma, ou je vais au parc avec mon frère.

______________________________

______________________________

______________________________

W3:End of Lesson Quiz

Knowledge Checker – What have you learned this week?

One thing I feel confident about is: _______________________________________________________________

I want to revise or learn more about:

_______________________________________________________________

I will do this by:

_______________________________________________________________

1) Which of these is an infinitive?

A je joue C jouer

B nous D joué

2) Which of these describes what you are currently doing?

A the present tense C the future tense

B the perfect tense D adjectives

3) What does ‘nous regardons’ mean?

A I watch C we watched

B we watch D we play

4) Which one of these means ‘she’?

A il C elle

B elles D vous

5) How do we say ‘I play’?

A je jouons C je jouer

B je joué D je joue

6) How do we say ‘she goes’

A elle va C nous allons

B elle aller D il va

7) What does ‘je vais’ mean?

A I went C I go

B he goes D they go

8) What does ‘faire’ mean?

A to be C to go

B to play D to make/ do

9) Which of these does not make sense?

A je faire C ils font

B nous faisons D tu fais

10) Which of these would we use to mean ‘you’ if we were speaking to one person who we know well?

A vous C je

B il D tu