<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20651059</id><updated>2009-10-30T10:53:21.702Z</updated><title type='text'>French Elementary 1 Conversation</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edilang.com/elementary1_french.html'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://edilang.com/elem1.xml'/><author><name>Lise</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20651059.post-116307743841380281</id><published>2006-11-09T13:00:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-11-09T13:17:18.156Z</updated><title type='text'>Elem 1 - 06/11/2006 - with audio!</title><summary type='text'>RESUME DE LA LECON 5 (LUNDI 6 NOVEMBRE 2006)

Last Monday, we started off by correcting the homework, and finished the ‘questions’ game. It was very good conversational practice and allow you to explore some more complex vocabulary.
We also checked out the conjugation of the verbs ending in –yer, as well as the very useful ‘aller’ (to go).

HOMEWORK:
3 questions that you would like the other </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/116307743841380281/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20651059&amp;postID=116307743841380281&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/posts/default/116307743841380281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/posts/default/116307743841380281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edilang.com/2006/11/elem-1-06112006-with-audio.html' title='Elem 1 - 06/11/2006 - with audio!'/><author><name>Lise</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13297150536394785974'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20651059.post-116195483337313902</id><published>2006-10-27T13:13:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-10-27T17:29:16.346Z</updated><title type='text'>Elementary 1 - Lesson 3</title><summary type='text'>
La semaine dernière…
Last week, I started off by quickly describing my holidays… You got a chance to try out ‘les bêtises de Cambrai’ and ‘les berlingots’! After that, we talked about your shopping and it was an opportunity to explore further how to express quantities, and also how to describe something’s contents…

Les devoirs – Homework:
1)Exercise -- Qu’est-ce qu’on achète…………….. ?
2)Menu and</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/116195483337313902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20651059&amp;postID=116195483337313902&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/posts/default/116195483337313902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/posts/default/116195483337313902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edilang.com/2006/10/elementary-1-lesson-3.html' title='Elementary 1 - Lesson 3'/><author><name>Lise</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13297150536394785974'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20651059.post-113836393501155708</id><published>2006-01-27T12:08:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-27T12:12:15.020Z</updated><title type='text'>FRENCH ELEMENTARY (1) 3</title><summary type='text'>MORE OF THE PAST [ PASSE COMPOSE]

We started the lesson by going over last week’s vocabulary, and after we corrected the homework – we had another look at the passé composé, as it had not been well understood, and I think things are a bit clearer now (though we did steer clear of the être situation – joy of things to come I’m afraid !)

I have found out that the Conjugueur website I mentioned </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/113836393501155708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20651059&amp;postID=113836393501155708&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/posts/default/113836393501155708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/posts/default/113836393501155708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edilang.com/2006/01/french-elementary-1-3.html' title='FRENCH ELEMENTARY (1) 3'/><author><name>Lise</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13297150536394785974'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20651059.post-113775328141520003</id><published>2006-01-20T10:25:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-21T11:22:54.306Z</updated><title type='text'>FRENCH ELEMENTARY (1) 2</title><summary type='text'>Les bonnes résolutions. Introduction to passé composé (with AVOIR). How to form the past participle of regular verbs.An important exception.We started off by checking out last week’s vocab, and discussed briefly the way quantities are expressed in French. For ex:
Beaucoup deUn peu deAssez deUn kilo deUne bouteille de
We had a look at your ‘ bonnes résolutions’ for deux mille six, using the verb ‘</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/113775328141520003/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20651059&amp;postID=113775328141520003&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/posts/default/113775328141520003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/posts/default/113775328141520003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edilang.com/2006/01/french-elementary-1-2.html' title='FRENCH ELEMENTARY (1) 2'/><author><name>Lise</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13297150536394785974'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20651059.post-113740645906987231</id><published>2006-01-16T10:12:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-21T11:22:41.633Z</updated><title type='text'>FRENCH ELEMENTARY (1) 1</title><summary type='text'>INTRODUCTIONS
Introductions – questionnaire (Revising questions + basic verbs).
Talking about oneself: tastes, habits and work. (basic verbs)

Basically, we started our lesson last week by a brief introduction about my favourite topic (myself!), and then quickly revised how to ask basic (indiscrete!) questions to get to know more about someone (p2 of the Dossier). Then, we started to talk about </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/113740645906987231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20651059&amp;postID=113740645906987231&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/posts/default/113740645906987231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20651059/posts/default/113740645906987231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edilang.com/2006/01/french-elementary-1-1.html' title='FRENCH ELEMENTARY (1) 1'/><author><name>Lise</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13297150536394785974'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20651059.post-113663049285895536</id><published>2006-01-07T10:32:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-21T11:23:14.383Z</updated><title type='text'>FRENCH ELEMENTARY (1) SYLLABUS</title><summary type='text'>Here is the suggested programme for our Elementary 1 French course, taking place on Tuesdays, between 6pm and 7.30pm.

I hope that you will find it useful, as a sort of guideline over what's going to happen over the next 12 weeks.

As you know, it is likely to change slightly depending on what you need - it is a work in progress!!!

Bon week-end et à mardi!


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