What did you do during your holiday ? ☞ Qu’est-ce que tu as fait pendant les vacances ? Time to do some French GCSE revision ? Practice for your French GCSE Speaking exam now with some typical answers to this traditional French GCSE question 👍
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☀ Qu’est-ce que tu as fait pendant les vacances ?
▶ Pendant les grandes vacances 🏝 During the summer holiday …
Qu’est-ce que tu as fait pendant les vacances ? Pendant les vacances, …
Total Time: 5 minutes
9. J‘ai écouté de la musique
I listened to some music
16. J‘ai vu un spectacle
I saw a show
18. J‘ai fait les magasins
I did some shopping
19. J‘ai pris des photos
I took some pictures
31. C‘était nul
It was rubbish
☀ Qu’est-ce que tu as fait pendant les vacances ? ➤ Negative sentences
Have a look at some of these French GCSE answers in the negative form ? How do you form the negative in French ? There are three rules that you should notice 👍
- Je n’ai pas joué au tennis
- Je n’ai pas mangé de glace
- Je n’ai pas écouté de la musique
- Je n’ai pas acheté de vêtements
- Je n’ai pas regardé de films
- Je n’ai pas vu de spectacle
- Je ne suis pas allé/e au cinéma
- Je ne suis pas allé/e en ville
- Ce n’était pas nul
- Ce n’était pas intéressant
Rule N°1 of a negative sentence
To make a negative sentence in French, simply add ‘ne pas‘ around the verb.
Je suis allée au cinéma ☞ Je ne suis pas allée au cinéma
Rule N°2 of a negative sentence
‘Ne’ for the negative is reduce to ‘n” (n apostrophe) in front of a vowel
J’ai acheté des vêtements ☞ Je n’ai pas acheté de vêtements
Rule N°3 of a negative sentence
The partitive adjective ‘des’ becomes ‘de’ in the negative form.
You can either choose plural or not. (singular mean one and plural mean more than one)
J’ai regardé des films ☞ Je n’ai pas regardé de film (just one) ☞ Je n’ai pas regardé de films (more than one)
☀ Qu’est-ce que tu as fait pendant les vacances ? ➤ Expressing opinions in French
Since the question is in the past, you must answer this French GCSE question using the past tense too, here we use the perfect tense in French or the imparfait, because the action is finished and we use the verb to be in the past, like in English, we use the simple past for a finished action ✅
It was ☞ c’était
Note that the ending for the imparfait in French is always either ‘ais’ or ‘ait’ or ‘ions’ and ‘iez’ for the plural part.
All you need to do is to add an adjective, for example ☞ c’était formidable 👍 Can you think of any other adjectives you could use to express your opinion in French ? Write them down in the comments below ✍️
☀ Qu’est-ce que tu as fait pendant les vacances ? ➤ Watch the video
Here is the presentation in video of the answers to this typical French GCSE question, Enjoy 👍
☀ Qu’est-ce que tu as fait pendant les vacances ? ➤ Learn the vocabulary in Quizlet
I am very fond of Quizlet and this is a link for you to learn all the French vocabulary from this lesson in Quizlet ☞ The app to learn while having fun 👍
☀ Qu’est-ce que tu as fait pendant les vacances ? ➤ Download the flashcards
Here are the flashcards that you can download and print and use in a number of ways ✅
The suggestions I have to use them are the following :
- Domino game : One card is made up of the picture and a text on the other side, use them as domino, you need to place the next card according to the corresponding text or picture
- Matching game : cut the cards individually and match the text to the corresponding picture
- Memory game : cut the cards individually and place them face down, pick up two cards at a time, you have to match the text and the picture, if it matches, you win a point, if it doesn’t match you place them back face down and you have to remember where they are.
- Mime game: pick up one card and mime the action : the other learner needs to guess what it is and say the sentence in French properly
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