1. www.interhigh.co.uk Lesson Title File Name Last weekend
1617frey9W8past
The Big Idea
You will be able to talk about the activities you did in the past.
Lesson Objectives
All students will be able to recognise past tense phrases about activities they have done and not done.
Most students will be able to use the phrases they have learnt to speak and write about the past, to say what they have done and what they have not done. They will recognise the different parts of the verb “avoir”.
3. Some students will be able to speak and write about what others have and have not done using the correct past of the verb “avoir”
Lesson Resources
CGP GCSE Revision Guide pages 101 and 102
Key Words
Vocabulary
J’ai joué , j’ai fait, j’ai regardé, j’ai mange, j’ai bu
hier, samedi dernier, le week-end dernier,
Setting the Scene
Continuing to talk and write about yourself in French
Summary
Activities you did in the past.
Homework
30 mins
See slides
Suggested follow up
Complete any unfinished slides
See exercise on perfect tense on

2. Last weekend
1617frey9W8past
Learning objective: To talk about the activities you did in the past; say what you didn’t do and talk about what others did.

5. Vocabulary

6. had
drank
read
saw
said
did
wrote
took
learnt
put

7. Listen to your teacher tell you what these young people did.
Note down the letter that matches what each person did.
Example:
Nicolas: C / E / G / N
D’abord, il a joué aux cartes, puis il a bu du coca et mangé un hamburger. Ensuite, il a lu un livre.
du chocolat chaud
de l’eau
Il a fait un gateau
= he made a cake
= drank / read
= did/wrote

8. Use the correct part of the verb “avoir” to say that other people did these activities. Then translate each phrase.
Example: nous avons mangé du poisson – we ate fish
Il … bu du coca.
Elle … acheté une BD.
Nous … joué au hockey.
Il … fait de la danse.
Nous …fait du karate.
Elle … mangé un poulet-frites.
Nous…..bu de la limonade.
Il …joué au basket.

9. Say that you did these activities last weekend
Say that you did these activities last weekend. Complete each phrase with the correct verb in the past tense. Le week-end dernier….
A ……………………………. la télé
B ……………………………. au tennis
C……………………………… au foot
D………………………………de la musique
E………………………………aux cartes
F ………………………………de la guitare
G………………………………..du vélo
H………………………………..mes devoirs

10. Make a list of 7 activities that Anne-Laure and Thierry did.
Une BD
/ une bande dessinée
= A comic book
Je n’ai pas = I didn’t
Le matin = in the morning
L’après-midi = in the afternoon
Le soir = in the evening
Make a list of 7 activities that Anne-Laure and Thierry did.
Use correct verbs.
Anne-Laure: Elle a lu une BD
Thierry: Il a joué avec son ordinateur

11. Imagine that you are each of these young people and write what you did last Saturday:
Nicolas: ADGJM
Auban: BEHKN
Aurélie : CFILO
= drank / read
= did/wrote

12. Make a phrase negative

13. X 1 X 2 X 3 X 4
Imagine that you are each of these people and write about what you did last Saturday. Some of the phrases are negative.
1) Je m’appelle Véréna. Samedi dernier j’ai…

14. Grammar exercise

15. Homework Task 1 Translate the phrases into French www.interhigh.co.uk
Use the correct part of the verb “avoir” j’ai / il a / elle a/ nous avons
I ate a salad
He ate some fish
I drank tea
We drank diet coke
He bought a jumper
I bought a present
We played tennis
She played basketball
I did judo
He did gymnastics

16. Homework Task 2 www.interhigh.co.uk
la planche à voile = wind surfing
j’ai gagné = I won
Read the s then complete the tasks on the following 2 slide.
ma combinaison de plongée = wetsuit

17. Read the emails on the previous slide
Make a list of 10 past tense phrases from the texts.
Write the English equivalent of as many of them as you can.
Example:
J’ai eu un cours – I had a lesson
J’ai mangé au Quick – I ate at Quick (a fast-food restaurant)

18. Read the s and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the statements which are false.

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