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FIRST STEPS
In
A’ Level French
This activity has been especially designed by
your Sixth Form Subject Tutors in order to
support you in making the adjustment
between GCSE and A’ Level studies.
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Pre – A’ Level French “pour commencer” Task :
The purpose of this task is to introduce you to
the first few weeks of the course where we talk about our
family, discuss the importance of friendship and evaluate
the characteristics and roles of friends.
Trouve les bonnes réponses
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Trouve les deux intrus : “Un bon ami est…”
a- fidèle
b- jaloux
c- sincere
d- constant
e- malhonnête
f- ouvert
2- Complète les phrases en utilisant les adjectives de la question
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Ma meilleure amie est fidèle,__________ et ___________.
Elle n’est pas _____________ et elle n’est pas_____________
non plus.
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3- Compléte les paires : sois logique!
copain + copine
petit ami + ________
_________ + fiancée
Mari +__________
_______ + épouse
REMEMBER, TO DO THE EXERCISES ABOVE YOU CAN USE
YOUR FILE FROM YEAR 11 AND A DICTIONNARY IF
NECESSARY
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DESCRIBE YOUR FAMILY
Write a description of your family and of your best friend using
as many adjectives, qualifiers, comparatives etc… to improve the
quality of your written work
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Now read the paragraphs below
Sacha:
Ça, c’est mon père, Brice. Il est très sympa et très
ouvert.
Je m’entends bien avec lui.
Et ma mère, Julie: elle est plus stricte avec moi que mon
père, mais elle est un peu timide aussi. Je m’entends
assez bien avec elle.
Olivier:
D’abord, mon père, Brice. Oui, il est sympa, surtout avec
ma sœur, Sacha et ses amis, mais il m’énerve.
Pourquoi? Parce qu’il me critique trop. On s’entend mal.
Par contre, ma mère, Julie, me critique peu. Elle est très
ouverte avec moi, alors on s’entend très bien.
Now, take the role of the son (1st paragraph) and the
daughter (2nd paragraph) and present your parents
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Now a bit of grammar to secure the accuracy of your
work. Read the notes and carry out the tasks
Reflexive verbs
Reflexive verbs are different from most ordinary verbs in two ways:
1) They always have a reflexive pronoun (me, te, se, nous, vous, se)
meaning the subject and direct object are the same person/thing.
Ma voiture? Je la lave. My car? I’m washing it.
Here the subject of the second sentence (Je / I) is different from its
direct object (la / it).
Et maintenant je me lave. And now I’m washing myself.
In the case of the reflexive verb above, the subject (Je / I) and direct
object (me / myself)
are the same (person).
2) They take être as their auxiliary in compound past tenses.
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Elle s’est disputée avec sa mère. She had a row / got herself into an
argument with her
mother.
Position of the reflexive pronoun
Like other pronouns, the reflexive pronoun generally comes before the
main verb, or the auxiliary (avoir or être) in the case of compound tenses
such as the perfect.
Reflexive verbs are always listed in the dictionary with se before the
infinitive:
present
perfect
se lever:
Je me lève tôt.
Je me suis levé(e)…
s’entendre bien avec:
On s’entend bien avec les profs. On s’est bien
entendus…
s’énerver:
Mes parents s’énervent facilement.
Mes parents se sont
énervés…
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Translate the following passage into French using the
reflexive verbs in brackets.
I get up (se lever) at eight o’clock. I wash (se laver) or I
shower (se doucher), then I get dressed (s’habiller). At
breakfast I row (se disputer) with my parents and get on
badly (s’entendre mal) with my brother and sister. At
school I have fun (s’amuser) then I lose my temper (se
fâcher) with my maths teacher. I hurry (se dépêcher) to
catch the bus. I get bored (s’ennuyer) with homework, so I
go to bed (se coucher) early and fall asleep (s’endormir)
straight away.
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Now translate it into the perfect tense
(Preterite/Past).
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Lots of reflexive verbs deal with relationships, emotions,
attitudes, (mis)trusting: you can often add se in front of a
verb to produce a reflexive:
s’aimer / s’adorer = to love one another se détester = to
hate one another
se méfier = to mistrust one another.
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Now assess your paragraph describing your family and
review/improve it by adding details about your
relationships with your parents using reflexive verbs as :
“s’entendre avec”
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SUMMER TASK
JE NE VEUX PAS ME MARIER.
À MON AVIS, IL N’EST PAS
NÉCESSAIRE D’ÊTRE MARIÉ
POUR VIVRE À DEUX
1- READ AND GIVE YOUR OPINION – DO YOU AGREE, DESAGREE?
WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON THE TOPIC?
2- DURING THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS MAKE SOME RESEARCH ON THE
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE RATES IN FRANCE AND BE READY TO
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DISCUSS YOUR FINDINGS WHEN BACK IN SEPTEMBER. YOU CAN
USE GRAPHS, FIGURES TO RE-INFORCE YOUR COMMENTS.
SOME USEFUL WEBSITES
http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=NATnon0
2326
insee = national institute of statistics
http://www.travail-solidarite.gouv.fr/1
ministry for the family
http://www.lemonde.fr/
French news with a search engine
Thank you for carrying out these tasks – please bring this
document to your first few lessons as you will be referring to
your work and discussing it.
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