<?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-17576524</id><updated>2009-11-13T16:17:42.614Z</updated><title type='text'>Post-Beginner French Conversation</title><subtitle type='html'>A relaxed course of basic French conversation in Edinburgh. Suitable for people who have already studied some French at school or in evening classes. Highly recommend if you want to brush up on those language skills!!</subtitle><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edilang.com/postbeginner_french_conversation.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/postbeginner-conversational-french.xml'/><author><name>Lise</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17576524.post-4430770020595487952</id><published>2009-11-13T14:00:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-11-13T16:17:42.754Z</updated><title type='text'>Audio Summary 6</title><summary type='text'>
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Last Monday, we started by re-reading the sentences from the previous week. Then we translated some sentences into English and we had a few discussions. Then we listened to a song, Si j'avais un marteau: it was a good opportunity to discover the "conditional" (would in english)... and then we practised it with some questions!


Vocabulaire:


S'ils étaient coincés dans un ascenseur avec Gordon </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/2915263529514042224/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17576524&amp;postID=2915263529514042224' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/posts/default/2915263529514042224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/posts/default/2915263529514042224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edilang.com/2009/11/post-beginner-french-evening-class_13.html' title='Post-beginner French Evening Class - Summary 6'/><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-17576524.post-8850502289100173335</id><published>2009-11-06T13:02:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-11-13T13:04:17.330Z</updated><title type='text'>Post-beginner French Evening Class - Summary 5</title><summary type='text'>For our fifth lesson, we started by going over week 4's vocabulary and then we corrected the homework: we used the "quand" questions that you had prepared to generate more "natural" conversation, and we also practised the imperfect.


Vocabulaire:


Quand avez-vous fini les devoirs?
John a fini les devoirs samedi et Craig a fini les devoirs dimanche soir.


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For our third lesson, we started by going over week 3's vocabulary and then we corrected the homework: we talked about superstitions. Then we had a look at the forms of the imperfect and some of its functions when telling a story.


Vocabulaire:
le fauteuil
à côté de
le défilé
dedans/dehors
les urgences
tuer une araignée
à la fin
la moutarde
la première guerre mondiale
dater
au milieu (</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/4621287998971784631/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17576524&amp;postID=4621287998971784631' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/posts/default/4621287998971784631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/posts/default/4621287998971784631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edilang.com/2009/10/post-beginner-french-evening-class_30.html' title='Post-beginner French Evening Class - Summary 4'/><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-17576524.post-5620698144330693990</id><published>2009-10-23T12:27:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-10-30T12:29:05.849Z</updated><title type='text'>Post-beginner French Evening Class - Summary 3</title><summary type='text'>Last week, we started off the lesson by going over the previous week's vocabulary. Then we read again the MacDo text together. Then, we went through the various questions of Vousbavez déjà fait ça, which was a good practice of the past tense "passé composé". We then practised the past tense further with a questionnaire.

Devoirs:
1) Read through the "supersitions" document and decide which bring </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/5620698144330693990/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17576524&amp;postID=5620698144330693990' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/posts/default/5620698144330693990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/posts/default/5620698144330693990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edilang.com/2009/10/post-beginner-french-evening-class_23.html' title='Post-beginner French Evening Class - Summary 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-17576524.post-3210280827078284295</id><published>2009-10-09T12:24:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-10-30T12:27:38.398Z</updated><title type='text'>Post-beginner French Evening Class - Summary 2</title><summary type='text'>For our second lesson, we went over last week's vocabulary and then we corrected the homework (see below), and we read the MacDo text together. After you gave me some recommendations against stress! :-)   
Bon weekend et à lundi! Lxox

Vocabulaire:
prendre la voiture
éteindre la lumière
allumer
inspirer
expirer
respirer
faire un voyage
une croisière
la piscine
conduire
faire de la course; courir
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On Monday, we started our first lesson with revisions: basic verbs, questions and answers, possessives. We also had a look at prepositions and tonic pronouns.
Make sure you do the homework on page 5 and look up the vocabulary below :-)
Bon weekend!


Vocabulaire:


le neveu, la nièce
le fils, la fille
louer une voiture
une location
la bonne cuisine
les anchois


Prepositions:
avec moi
derrière </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/6857948867538008016/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17576524&amp;postID=6857948867538008016' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/posts/default/6857948867538008016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/posts/default/6857948867538008016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edilang.com/2009/10/post-beginner-french-evening-class.html' title='Post-beginner French Evening Class - Summary 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-17576524.post-112868487861087505</id><published>2007-09-05T11:45:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-09-05T00:33:13.598Z</updated><title type='text'>PROGRAMME post-beginner</title><summary type='text'>IntroductionsIntroducing oneself - Introducing somebody else (name; address; job)QUESTIONS &amp; NUMBERSQuestions:- simple yes/no questions-  complex questionsNumbers:- phone numbers- french post codesExpressing one’s opinionsTasteDiscussing film and televisionLeisure &amp; habitsTimeMore verbs to express what you usually doIntroducing the future: what you are going to doDirections &amp; shopsGetting </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/112868487861087505/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17576524&amp;postID=112868487861087505' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/posts/default/112868487861087505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17576524/posts/default/112868487861087505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://edilang.com/2006/09/programme-post-beginner.html' title='PROGRAMME post-beginner'/><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></feed>