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Year 8 · Languages · Holidays · Lesson 3

Weather and accommodation in the past (French)

Describing holiday weather (il faisait, il y avait, il pleuvait, il a plu) and accommodation (j'ai logé...) in French, introducing the imperfect for descriptions.

Whiteboard video lesson: Weather and accommodation in the past (French)

19-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

  • Describe past weather
  • Say where you stayed
  • Describe accommodation with c'était and il y avait
  • Tell apart perfect and imperfect

The method

  1. Weather.
  2. Stay.
  3. Describe.
  4. Mix tenses.

Key words: holidays, weather, il faisait, imperfect, j'ai logé, il y avait.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

Translate: il faisait beau

  1. Step 1: Weather

Answer: it was nice weather

Question 2

Translate: il faisait froid

  1. Step 1: Weather

Answer: it was cold

Question 3

Translate: il y avait du vent

  1. Step 1: vent = wind

Answer: it was windy