Here are some tips inspired by my GCSE students’ mistakes in the last 2 weeks.
Writing/Speaking:
Dans le matin, dans le soir, dans le weekend
Write: Le matin, le soir, le weekend (In the morning/In the evening/At the weekend)
Aussi, je vais à la patinoire Je vais aussi à la patinoire.
‘Aussi’ is an adverb, and all adverbs should be placed after your verb or between the auxiliary and past participle for tenses such as perfect, pluperfect, future and condional perfect.
Aussi, j’ai visité la Russie et le Japon J’ai aussi visité la Russie et le Japon. (perfect tense) .
‘Très’ doesn’t work with the adjectives below, replace it by ‘vraiment’ if you want to insist:
très nul = vraiment nul
très génial = vraiment génial
très délicieux = vraiment délicieux
What is the difference between ‘j’allais’ and ‘je suis allé’?
J’allais (imperfect): I used to go/I was going
Use ‘j’allais’ for things you used to do in the past, when you were younger for example, or if an action was interrupted by another:
J’allais chez le docteur quand mon amie m’appelée: I was going to the doctor’s when my friend called.
Je suis allé (perfect): I went (one-off event)
Hier, je suis allé au journal pour présenter mon article. Yesterday, I went to the newspaper to present my article.
Reminder:
JE VAIS = I’m going/I go (present)
Vocabulary:
propre: own (ma propre chambre: my own room)
or clean (la maison est propre)
sale: dirty (not to confuse with ‘salle’: room, although it’s the same sound)
About hobbies/activities and why you like them:
Cela me donne de l’énergie: it gives me energy
Cela me met de bonne humeur: it puts me in a good mood
Use new words, don’t just stick to ‘bon, bien, super, génial’, that everybody uses, be different and stand out.
For food:
succulent = délicieux
For subjects, films, holidays, day out
passionnant = fascinant = très intéressant
palpitant: exciting
By the way, they are adjectives
Some essentials:
La plupart du temps: most of the time
Tout le temps: all the time
Bien que: although
J’ai l’intention…d’aller/d’étudier/de partir = I plan…to go/to study/to leave
J’ai l’intention de + infinitive
Je voudrais: I’d like to
Je voulais: I wanted
ne…que: only
se soucier de = to care/to worry
Useful irregular futures:
J’aurai: I will have / je ferai: I will do/make /j’irai: I’ll go /je verrai: I’ll see
Pronunciation:
A lot of my students say ‘je jouais’ to say ‘je joue’ or j’étudiais’ when they mean ‘j’étudie’. The ‘e’ is silent. So if you pronounce the verb the wrong way, like above, you’re saying ‘I used to play/I was playing’ instead of ‘I play/I’m playing’ or ‘I used to study/I was studying’ instead of ‘I study/I’m studying’.
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