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Year 8 · Languages · Free time · Lesson 5

Negatives, opinions and writing about the past (French)

French negatives in the perfect tense (ne...pas, ne...jamais), past opinions with c'était, time phrases and writing a paragraph about last weekend.

Whiteboard video lesson: Negatives, opinions and writing about 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

  • Make perfect tense verbs negative
  • Give opinions in the past with c'était
  • Use time phrases and sequencers
  • Write a paragraph about the past

The method

  1. Time phrase.
  2. Avoir and être.
  3. Negative.
  4. Opinion + reason.

Key words: ne...pas, ne...jamais, c'était, time phrases, perfect tense, writing.

Worked examples

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

Question 1

Make negative: j'ai mangé.

  1. Step 1: ne...pas round ai

Answer: je n'ai pas mangé

Question 2

Make negative: je suis sorti.

  1. Step 1: ne...pas round suis

Answer: je ne suis pas sorti

Question 3

Make negative: nous avons vu le film.

  1. Step 1: ne...pas round avons

Answer: nous n'avons pas vu le film