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French · Grade 1

Present-Tense Actions and Routines

Learners describe what people do every day. They conjugate regular -er verbs and discover that parle, parles and parlent sound the same, choose the right subject pronoun (including on and polite or plural vous), use the four key irregular verbs être, avoir, aller and faire, and finally describe a daily routine with clock times, parts of the day and words such as toujours, souvent and parfois.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 105 minutes
  • Verbs and routines check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, choose a reply, highlight a text, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Conjugate regular -er verbs in the present (parler, aimer, jouer, regarder, écouter, manger → nous mangeons, commencer → nous commençons), knowing that parle, parles and parlent sound the same, and using elision (j'aime, j'écoute).
  • Choose subject pronouns, including on (we in everyday speech, with the il/elle form of the verb), vous (polite, or more than one person) and ils for mixed groups.
  • Use the irregular verbs être, avoir, aller and faire in the present (je vais, nous allons, ils vont; je fais, nous faisons, ils font; ils sont / ils ont).
  • Describe a daily routine with clock times (Il est sept heures et demie; à 8 h 15) and numbers to 59, with le matin, l'après-midi, le soir and toujours, souvent, parfois (je me lève and je me couche as fixed phrases).

Lessons

  1. Regular -er verbs 7 steps4 practiceabout 24 min
  2. Who does it? Subject pronouns 7 steps4 practiceabout 20 min
  3. Être, avoir, aller, faire 6 steps4 practiceabout 24 min
  4. Ma journée: routines and times 8 steps5 practiceabout 27 min
  5. Verbs and routines check 9 questions at the end

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