Français 3: TWO TESTS:
Friday (Nov. 17): Writing sentences in French, using either the imparfait or the passé composé. YOU will have to choose which tense is needed. You must also know how to correctly FORM the tenses. You will have to have the endings and the formation memorized, as well as the rules.
WORD BANKS will be given (only for Friday's test) for:
• the irregular imparfait stems (only in French, no translation)
• the irregular past participles (only in French, no translation)
• the special expressions (jusqu'à, tout le temps, etc. -- only there in French, you need to know what they mean, and which tense they go with)
You must know how the imparfait TRANSLATES vs how the passé composé translates, and how to form each tense, and when to use each tense. You will also be expected to know the special translations for être, avoir, savoir, connaître.
MONDAY:
Imparfait stems: Memorize to produce in French. I will not even give you an infinitive in French. I will give you an English prompt, like, "was reading", and you will give me: lis ___
LAUREN and Annie!!: I've attached a set of practice sentences that we worked on in class. You need to do them all.... this will take you at LEAST 30 minutes. This is practice for the test!
Français 4: Read the notes on the worksheet I handed out, about how to form the participe présent (you take the present-tense "nous" form of a verb, drop off the -ons, and add -ant instead). For irregular verbs, you use the same stem that you used for the imparfait (choisir--> choisiss___ ; aller--> all__, etc.).
We FIRST (during the recipe unit), learned to translate this as "....ing"... and, if it had "en" with it, you translated that as "WHILE": en écoutant = while listening; en fouettant= while beating/whisking). NOW... we are adding somethingnew: sometimes that "en" is translated as, "By..." (to give the method BY which you did something). So: "J'apprends le français en regardant souvent des films français." = "I learn French BY WATCHING French films often."
HOMEWORK: Activity 5: Say that the person given (in the example, it's Christine) DOES (present tense) the first action (conjugate it in the present tense!) BY ______ ing (so, take the infinitive verb in the parentheses, and change it to the present participle, adding "en" in front of it. TRANSLATE the whole sentence, translating the "en____ing" as "By ..... ing". (NOTE: The example is actually done in the bubble.) You only have to write one sentence.... just telling about the person whose name is given. You do NOT have to add a sentence about yourself, even though there is one in the bubble's example.)
16practiceimppcmoche_sentences2013.docx |
page_100bleradverbs.pdf |
er_vbs_advfrwksht.pdf |