French I, Semester I; Le Temps

Sections:

Introduction  |   Section 1  |   Section 2  |   Section 3   |   Dictionaries

Section Two:

Part A  |   Part B  |   Part C   |   Part D

Section Two: Part C More activities to do Let's learn to talk about some other things you might do. Look and listen. Jouer de la guitare Faire du vélo Chanter Prendre un bain de soleil Patiner Faire du skate Se promener dans le jardin public Regarder la télévision Faire du ski Prendre des photos Parler au téléphone Passer du temps avec un ami Practice Use this practice session to become familiar with the concepts of this lesson module. More about verbs In Unit 2, we learned all of the subject pronouns. Let's review that. See if you can remember what they were, then look at the chart to see if you know what the French ones are. Click on the subject pronoun in English to see its equivalent in French.   I je we nous you (formal) vous you (plural) vous you (informal) tu you (plural formal) vous he il they ils she elle they elles Did you remember? If not, perhaps you are going too quickly through the material and should do more activities to review or warm-up as you begin each day.  La lecture (Reading practice) Read the following paragraph and then see if you can fill in the forms of the verbs in the chart below. Aujourd'hui, il fait très froid et je porte un pantalon, un pull, des bottes et une veste. Je porte des gants et une écharpe aussi parce qu'il neige et il fait très mauvais. Antoine porte un pull et un pantalon aussi mais il ne porte pas de veste. Corrine et Brigitte portent des bottes et des vestes. Elles portent des gants. Nous portons des vêtements d'hiver. Qu'est-ce que tu portes? porter je porte nous portons tu portes vous portez   il porte elles portent This is a what a regular -er verb looks like in French. The infinitive is porter. In order to say "I wear", we take off the -er and add -e. You can see the other forms do the same thing. They all remove the -er and then add different endings, depending on who the subject is. Note the pattern: porter je porte nous portons tu portes vous portez il/elle/on porte ils/elles portent All regular -er verbs change just like you see above. Verbs that end in -ir and -re are slightly different and some verbs are irregular.   Writing Practice Write these questions in your notebook. Click on the verb after you've filled in the blank to check your answers. If you are having any problems, ask your teacher for help. Complete the verb form for each of the following subject pronouns and verbs. je, nager je nage il, patiner il patine nous, chanter nous chantons elles,jouer de la guitare elles jouent de la guitare tu, parler au téléphone tu parles au téléphone It is very important that you learn to do this. You cannot say tu parler --that would mean "you to speak". Does that make sense to you? We know that the correct way to say this is: "you speak". This means you have to take off the -er and change the ending to -es to say "you speak". Tu parles.   Before we go on...let's talk Before you continue on to Part D, go to Discussion 2c and ask your classmates two questions in French. Ask someone if they do at least two different activities. Respond to someone's post there. If there are no posts to respond to yet, go back in a day or so to respond. This assignment is worth 8 points. Va à 2d.

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