French Lesson

Hello, today we are going to teach you for a short period of time, and hopefully you’ll learn the basics of using negatives in your French speaking and writing. To start with, what are negatives? Or what is a negative sentence? Any ideas? Negatives are basically saying what didn’t happen or what you didn’t like, these are a few examples. He doesn’t like maths He didn’t see the film. She no longer smoked She only eats fruit So, does anyone have any ideas how we’d say those in French? To start with how do we say they do like maths and they did see the film. Ask for ideas how to form the sentences in the positive sense and then display on presentation the answers Here are a few phrases we use in French to make a sentence negative. Never ne jamais Nothing, not anything ne rien Only ne que No longer, not anymore ne plus To make a sentence negative, that is to say what you don’t do or what isn’t’ happening, put ne… pas around the verb. So here is an example She didn’t go to town Elle n’ allé pas en ville So how do we form the examples on the board. He is how we construct the 1st example, He doesn’t like