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Rester en forme

Translating into French is where accuracy shows: gender, agreement and verb endings all have to be right at the same time. A healthy-living paragraph is the perfect place to practise.

Part of your national curriculum
  • Writing: Translate short written text accurately into the foreign language

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Translate short written text accurately into the foreign language

Key learning points

  • • Healthy living vocabulary
  • • A checklist before you write
  • • Common traps

This lesson at a glance

  • 25 minutes
  • 15 parts to scroll through
  • 4 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

translatewrittenaccuratelyforeignlanguage

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Watch first

Rester en forme

An English teaching video on this topic from Pearson UK & International Schools. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.

In a nutshell

Translate short written text accurately into the foreign language

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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1 · Healthy living vocabulary

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Learn

Healthy living vocabulary

manger équilibré (eat a balanced diet), boire de l'eau, faire du sport, se coucher tôt (go to bed early), éviter le sucre (avoid sugar), être en forme (to be fit / well).

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Explore the idea

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Learn

A checklist before you write

1. Have I chosen the right verb? 2. Does the ending match the subject (je -e, tu -es, il/elle -e, nous -ons, vous -ez, ils -ent)? 3. Is the noun's gender right? 4. Do the adjectives agree? 5. Have I used the right little word: du, de la, des or de?

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Quick check

Part 5 of 15

Quick check

Translate 'I do sport'.

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Quick check

Part 6 of 15

Quick check

How do you say 'never' around a verb?

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Reset break

Part 7 of 15

Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now
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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2 · Common traps

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

Part 9 of 15

Learn

Common traps

'Every day' is tous les jours, not 'chaque jour' in most sentences. 'I do sport' is je fais du sport (faire, not jouer). 'I never eat' needs two parts: je ne mange jamais.

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Quick check

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Quick check

'Tous les jours' means...

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Quick check

Part 11 of 15

Quick check

Which ending goes with nous?

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Explore the idea

Part 12 of 15

Worked example

Worked translation

English: 'I eat fruit every day and I do sport twice a week, but I never drink fizzy drinks.' French: 'Je mange des fruits tous les jours et je fais du sport deux fois par semaine, mais je ne bois jamais de boissons gazeuses.' Check: des fruits (plural), fais du sport (faire), ne...jamais wrapped around the verb, de after the negative.

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Challenge round

Part 13 of 15

Game · Sort it

Which of these are true?

Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.

True

Not true

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Mastery quiz

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Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Rester en forme

4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. Translate into French: 'I never drink fizzy drinks.'

  2. 2. Translate 'I do sport'.

  3. 3. How do you say 'never' around a verb?

  4. 4. 'Tous les jours' means...

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Lesson round-up

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Lesson round-up

Ready when you are

Quiz score

Not sat

Games

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Points this lesson

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Best run

0 in a row

Luna: 0 out of 4 on the practice checks. Only if you feel up to it — one more?

Ask Luna

Do the work

Your written work for this lesson

This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.

Extract

Une journée à Lyon

Samedi matin, je me lève à sept heures et demie. Je prends le petit déjeuner avec ma sœur — du pain, du beurre et un chocolat chaud. Ensuite, nous prenons le bus jusqu'au centre-ville.

J'aime beaucoup Lyon parce qu'il y a un grand marché près du fleuve. Ma sœur préfère les magasins, mais moi, je préfère le marché : c'est moins cher et c'est plus intéressant. À midi, nous mangeons un sandwich au parc.

L'après-midi, il commence à pleuvoir, alors nous rentrons à la maison en tram. Le soir, je fais mes devoirs et je regarde un film avec mes parents.

Original text written for Good Learning Co.

Reading questions

  1. In English, say what the writer does in the morning, at midday and in the evening.
  2. Find the phrases that give an opinion and a reason, and copy them out.
  3. Write 8–10 sentences about your own Saturday, using at least three phrases from the text.

  • Written practice

    Writing

    Write the sentences out in the language, then translate them back into English.

    8–10 sentences

  • Vocabulary page

    Working out

    Copy the new words, cover them, and test yourself. Note the ones you keep missing.

    15 words

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