At the Doctor's: Grammar and Phonics (AQA GCSE French): Revision Note

To understand the topic of 'at the doctor's', you need to be able to understand and use the imperative correctly. Let's look at this grammar point in more detail.

Imperative

Buvez plus d’eau et restez à la maison !

• The imperative is used to give an instruction or an order

• It would be used to give medical advice if you speaking to a doctor - the sentence above means 'Drink more water and stay at home!'

• It is only used in the present tense

• When used for instructions and orders, it is only used for tu (informal) or vous (formal or plural)

• Like in English, we use the verb without the pronoun (e.g. ‘Drink!’ rather than ‘You drink!’)

• Most verbs are regular and follow the pattern below:

Tu imperative

Vous imperative

• The verbs aller (to go) and faire (to do / make) have irregular imperative forms:

Higher tier only

• The verb être (to be) has irregular imperative forms:

At the doctor's: phonics

• When a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) is followed by n or m, it makes a nasal sound

• In the sounds [en], [an], [em] and [am], this means that we don’t hear the [n] and [m]
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