Year 8 · Languages · Holidays · Lesson 4
Writing about a past holiday (French)
Writing an extended paragraph about a past holiday in French, combining the perfect, imperfect and near future with opinions, reasons and a negative.
18-minute video lesson
Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.
Watch free for a monthWhat your child will learn
- Plan a holiday paragraph
- Combine perfect and imperfect tenses
- Add a near future sentence
- Check work against a success checklist
The method
- When, where, who.
- Transport, stay, weather.
- Activities + opinions.
- Next year.
Key words: holidays, writing, perfect, imperfect, near future, je vais, opinions.
Worked examples
The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.
Question 1
Translate: l'année prochaine
- Step 1: prochaine = next
Answer: next year
Question 2
Translate: je vais aller en Italie
- Step 1: Near future
Answer: I'm going to go to Italy
Question 3
Translate: avec ma famille
- Step 1: avec = with
Answer: with my family