French Teaching Resources. PowerPoint, Worksheet & Battleships: Negatives + present tense: ne + pas

This step-by-step French PowerPoint gradually elicits the formation of negatives with the present tense: ne + pas.

The first slide encourages the students to actively engage with the new structure: working in teams, using their prior knowledge, knowledge of other languages and using a process of elimination to figure out the meanings and rules. They then discuss the pronunciation and question each other before the teacher checks with the whole class:

All: Translate the phrases below.
Most: AND decide which two words we add to make a sentence negative. Where are they positioned?
Some: AND: decide why we say n’ai pas rather than ne ai pas. Perfect Pronunciation Challenge!

Je suis généreux.
Je ne suis pas généreux.
J’ai un frère.
Je n’ai pas de frères.
J’ai une souris.
Je n’ai pas d’animal.

The following slides gradually check the students' answers.

Slide 8 recaps the new expressions and can be used for a game.
Slide 9 recaps the questions (can be used for revision next lesson) and slide 10 is the same a slide 8.

Worksheet:

This sheet starts with a re-cap of the rules:
To make this sentence negative we add ne and pas. These go around the verb
e.g. Je ne joue pas au tennis = I don’t play tennis.

Then there is a French - English translation section, followed by English - French translation.
The next section reminds us that du changes to de after a negative. This is followed by English - French translation.

The final section is to build in previous knowledge to write a short paragraph. The following phrases are offered for support:

Tous les jours = everyday car = because mais = but donc = therefore et = and une fois par semaine = once a week deux fois par semaine = twice a week c’est = it is intéressant = interesting génial = great ennuyeux = boring.

Battleships:
This battleships can be used to revise a variety of expressions with ne + pas. I have also included one near future and one perfect tense example to add challenge/ expose students to these new tenses.

Expressions:

Je n’ai pas de frères et sœurs et Je ne suis pas travailleur et
Tu n’as pas d’animal et
Il n’habite pas en France et Elle n’est pas généreuse et
Nous ne sommes pas sympas et

je ne joue pas au foot.
tu ne joues pas au basket.
il ne fait pas de cyclisme.
je ne vais pas faire de ski.
je n’ai pas joué au tennis.

Please see instructions for playing battleships on one of my other product descriptions - I can't fit it in here!