Year 6 What I and others do: 'faire' singular persons, qu'est-ce que worksheet

“Activities at home” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 6 French unit “What I and others do: 'faire' singular persons, qu'est-ce que”, for children aged 10 to 11, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 7 to 16 of the year, 10 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Activities at home

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 6 · French · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can say what I do and what he or she does at home, using faire.

A Look back3 min

1.
How many dots are there? Circle the French word.
cinqseptneuf
2.
Circle the French word for blue.
rougebleuvert
3.
How many dots are there? Circle the French word.
troisquatrecinq

B Watch me, then you4 min

Look at the bed. Someone has made it. In French we say 'je fais le lit'.

A single bed with a blue cover, neatly made, in a small bedroom

Watch me

Faire means both 'to do' and 'to make'.

je fais = I do or I make.

je fais le lit = I make the bed.

Now you

1.
Circle the French for 'I make the bed'.
je fais le litje fait le litje faire le lit

C Your turn6 min

Read each line. Only one word changes each time.

A kitchen counter with a frying pan, a saucepan and a wooden spoon

A shopping bag on a table with a loaf of bread and some apples

1.
Ali is a boy. He does the cooking. Circle the word that goes in the gap: ___ fait la cuisine.
IlJeElle
2.
Mia is a girl. She does the cooking. Circle the word that goes in the gap: ___ fait la cuisine.
IlElleJe
3.
Mia does the shopping. Circle the end of the sentence: Elle fait ___.
les coursesla cuisinele lit
4.
I make the bed. Circle the correct French sentence.
Je fais le lit.Je fait le lit.Il fais le lit.

Say it out loud: Which word changed in this row, and did the rest of the sentence stay the same?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Mia says: “Faire only means ‘to do’ and never ‘to make’.”

1.
Circle the other English meaning of faire.
to maketo sleepto eat

E Think deeper4 min

Say je fais and il fait out loud. The verbs sound the same.

A broom and a dustpan leaning against a wall by a back door

1.
Why are fais and fait spelt differently if they sound the same? Write your reason.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Activities at home · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. sept Count the dots out loud in French with your child, touching each one, then find the word that matches the total.

2. bleu Rouge means red. Ask your child to point to the blue square and say bleu aloud.

3. quatre Count together, touching each dot. Then say quatre slowly and ask your child to repeat it.

B

1. je fais le lit If your child picks je fait, say: je takes fais. The s is silent but it is written. Point to the worked example.

C

1. Il If your child picks Je, ask who the sentence is about. Ali is a boy, so the word is il.

2. Elle Mia is a girl, so the word is elle. Check the name first, then the word.

3. les courses Courses means shopping. Ask your child to say the English first, then match the French.

4. Je fais le lit. If your child picks Je fait, say: je always takes fais. Fait is for il and elle.

D

1. to make If your child picks to sleep or to eat, point to faire le lit. Faire means both to do and to make.

E

1. Look for: the ending shows the person: fais goes with je, fait with il or elle; the final s and t are silent

Words to use

Say“Each answer is in the answer column. StudyDen plays the French words aloud in the app, so you can just listen and ask which word changed.”

Instead of“Ask your child to translate every word, or say the French is too hard for them.”

After the sheet

Make a short list of jobs at home. Point to a broom and say elle fait le ménage, then swap who does it.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

9 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Negatives with ne and pas(with a plan)
Chores with tu fais(with a plan)
Asking what people are doing(with a plan)
Il fait: the weather(with a plan)
Playing sports with jouer(with a plan)
My friends: mes and tes(with a plan)
Quel or quelle?(with a plan)
Doing sport with faire(with a plan)
Summer time in French(with a plan)

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