Elementary 1 - Lesson 3

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 numbers

3)Think about answers for Communiquez…. Avec votre voisin ou votre voisine…

Expressing quantities

assez de

beaucoup de

trop de

un peu de

une boîte de

un litre de

un bocal de

une livre de

un morceau de

une bouteille de

une part de

une demi-douzaine de

une douzaine de

50 grammes de

une tranche de

un kilo de

More information on this topic here: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/gr/det8.html

Expressing what something is made of (for food) with à:

Un yaourt à la banana

Un gâteau au chocolat (à + le = au)

Une tarte aux pommes (à + les = aux)

FRENCH ELEMENTARY (1) 3

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 earlier in French Tip # 2 is good as well to find which verb we’re talking about. ie if you have the following sentence :

j’ai couru dans le jardin and you want to know which verb couru comes from : just type couru on the main page of the Conjugueur, and it gives you the original verb (infinitive form) LES DEVOIRS The game on the passé composé : choose 10 sentences and put them in the passé composé form.

Or else, you can practise all the sentences : we’ll be playing the game on Tuesday !

VOCABULAIRE Prendre le train Courir Le jardin Hier soir Demain soir Mieux Un[e] ami[e] En retard En avance Gentil, gentille Ce livre Marcher En même temps Jusqu’à Mettre la table Mettre le couvert Le jus de pomme

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• 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 de
• Un peu de
• Assez de
• Un kilo de
• Une bouteille de

We had a look at your ‘ bonnes résolutions’ for deux mille six, using the verb ‘aller’ and the infinitive form of the chosen verb (similar to “I am going to do” in English). We then had a closer look at reflexive verbs: you can find more information about these here, thanks to Tex’s online Grammar. Finally, we read the small text I had written about my holidays, which served both as a revision of food vocab and as a basic introduction to simple Passé Composé (ie the verbs that take AVOIR in the past tense – very similar to the English present perfect ‘I have done’). DEVOIRS Practise the passé composé thanks to jigsaw (to be sent shortly) Activity – La France, vous connaisez (last page of the Dossier): check out what you know & don’t know. VOCABULAIRE

Voir Je vois Tu vois Il/elle/on voit Nous voyons Vous voyez Ils/elles voient Voyons voir A tes/vos souhaits A tes/vos amours Le/la fonctionnaire La fonction publique Réveillonner S’entendre avec quelqu'un Un neveu Une nièce Fruité[e] Une huître Un lièvre Une bûche Goûter à quelque chose Sélectionner

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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 good resolutions, which was as good an opportunity as another to revise the present conjugation of the verb aller (to go), that we can use to express near future (p3 of the Dossier). As I am not myself terribly good in terms of good resolutions… I cannot but be sympathetic to your homework plea, and suggest you get creative to say “what you are going to do”, and “what you’re not going to do anymore”… Oh, and I looked up ‘pilates’… surprise surprise: ‘le pilates’ it is in French!! Ha ha ha! NB : Aileen suggested that I could provide you with ideas about guessing French words from English words (eg: extraordinary --- extraordinaire), so I have been working on this and should be able to suggest a number of rules on Tuesday! A bientôt! DEVOIRS Bonnes résolutions Read the text “Pendant les vacances”, but just generally – we’ll have a look at it together! VOCABULAIRE Regarder Nager Directeur / directrice de projets A tes souhaits ! Le documentaire La poule Le poulet Le truc arrêter de fumer perdre du poids faire plus de sport aller à la piscine manger moins de chocolat boire moins de bière aller au théâtre sortir plus voyager plus

FRENCH ELEMENTARY (1) SYLLABUS

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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INTRODUCTIONS Introductions – questionnaire (Revising questions + basic verbs). Talking about oneself: tastes, habits and work. (basic verbs) Your vision of France: facts and fictions (negations + savoir/connaître) VOCABULARY ENRICHMENT Describing an object (Adjectives) Talking about where you live (introduction to object pronouns) The house of your dreams (House) Allergies (Food) : how not get ill on holidays! Trains, buses & métro (Transports) A virtual visit to the market (Food & Shops) THE PAST The way things were (The imperfect) Expressing duration in the past (The imperfect) Famous People (Passé Composé) Story time! (Passé Composé) Best joke ever (Imperfect & Passé Composé) Fairy stories (Imperfect & Passé Composé) THE FUTURE An hypothetical visit to Edinburgh (intro to the future) Be a clairvoyant for one evening Horoscopes, errorscopes? INTRODUCTION TO THE CONDITIONAL Giving advice (conditional) Could you be a diplomat? (conditional / discussion) Questionnaire chinois (conditional)