THIS IS A TEMPORARY PAGE. STILL WORKING ON A MORE PERMANENT SITE FOR DEBUTANTS.
In our first meeting, we encountered the following basic structures:
| je m’appelle | + | nom |
| je suis | + | profession/ nationality |
| je parle | + | language |
| j’habite à | + | city/suburb |
| j’aime | + | object/person….. |
You should be able to say your name, profession, nationality, the languages you speak, and something you like.
Since you were so good and talented, I introduced some adverbs of intensity such as:
un peu
bien/mal
comme ci comme ça
trés bien/mal
vraiment bien/mal
and let’s not be too modest:
Je parle vraiment très très très bien français.
Remember to use you the intonation of insistance. You don’t want to sound like a robot. Language is a melody. Sing it!
Practice then this monologue
Les salutations
Pour écouter et pratiquer
cliquez ici
ou
ou ici
cliquez ici pour écouter des conversations tirées de films
Apologies
Pardon
Excusez-moi
Je suis désolé
Les Nombres de 1 à 20
Ecoutez, répétez et pratiquez
Listen the way French kids are taught the Alphabet.
Les accents
´ accent aigu ` accent grave
ˆ accent circonflexe ¨ tréma
ç c cedille
More?
Pas encore assez ? Essayez ici:
Incidentally if you want to find out how to type in French, I have the place for you:
Vocabulaire
We added in our list a new dimension
I He/She You
Je m’appelle Il/Elle s’appelle Vous vous appelez
Je suis Il/Elle est Vous êtes
Je parle Il/Elle parle Vous parlez
J’aime Il/Elle aime Vous aimez
J’habite à Il/Elle habite à Vous habitez à
Je travaille à Il/Elle travaille à Vous travaillez à
So now you can not only introduce yourself, but also gossip about a third person and ask someone some basic information .
Try introducing the following people first at the first person (I), then describing them(He/she) and finally check with them if the statement are correct (Vous)
Leçon 3
Les salutations
Ecoutez, regardez et répétez , cliquez ici
Un peu de grammaire
Regular Verbs Vs Irregular Verbs.
A regular verb is a verb who follow the same pattern, For instance, to dance, to walk are regular while to speak (I spoke, I have spoken) or to say (I said, said) are irregular.
What is the most irregular verb in English?
Of course to be.
If it was regular you would say: I be, you bes, I bed, I have bed…. Silly… but spare the thought with the poor little French pupil trying to make sense of that.
Well, you turn… now the most irregular verb in French
Le verbe être. The verb to be
You will find in the back of your book all the forms of the verbs.
And here are some sites where you can practice during the week
Vocab de Survie
Les verbes réguliers see special entryand les pronomes personnels sujets.
Les Nombres de 1 à 69
You can of course practice listening the French Experience CD. At this moment, you should concentrate at understanding and saying them rather than writing.
Want to try this MCQ (multiple choice question) ?
Cliquez ici
Des situations pour pratiquer
Situation 1
What do you say if
1 you want to attract someone’s attention
2 you meet the manageress of the hotel in the morning
3 you want to refuse a glass of liqueur
4 you’re saying goodbye to a young woman you’re expecting to see again
tomorrow
5 you’re very grateful to someone
6 you’re saying cheerio to someone you’Il be seeing again later
7 you want to say a very informal hello
8 you want to acknowledge someone’s thanks
Situation 2
What do you say if
1 you’ve stepped on someone’s foot
2 you’re introduced to your host’s young daughter
3 you meet a business acquaintance and want to know how he is
4 he asks how you are
5 he asks a question you don’t hear properly
6 you agree to a suggestion
Situation 3
Practise saying : hello, how are you, and the other phrases you’ve been learning.
1 There’s a crisis! Stop a passerby and ask if he speaks English.
2 What do you say to a Frenchman who’s talking too fast?
3 If you don’t understand, what do you say?
4 If you want something repeated, what do you say?
Situation 4
1 You’re sharing a table at breakfast with a French couple. Say good
morning, first to the wife . . .
2 . . . then to the husband.
3 The wife says something you don’t quite hear. What do you say?
4 She’s talking too fast! How do you ask her not to?
5 The husband offers you a cigarette. Refuse politely.
6 Say goodbye to them both.
7 Later you meet a French colleague. How do you reply to his enquiry
Comment allez-vous?
8 He introduces you to his wife. Shake hands and say
9 She overestimates your ability to speak French. Tell her you don’t
understand. Ask him to repeat, slow-ly and clearly. Tell him not to shout…
More to come (well, maybe… ça dépend….)
REVIEW
The verbs
•Present tense
Regular verbs in -ER: je danse tu danses etc…
Three irregular verbs
Etre: je suis tu es etc..
Avoir: J’ai tu as….
Aller: Je vais tu vas il/elle va, nous allons, vous allez, ils/elle vont
Near Future
Aller+ infinitive
Je vais nager, nous allons manger etc…
Four functions
Permission/ may/can Je peux
Want je veux
Must je dois
Going to je vais
asking for permission Est que je peux….
Le présent des verbes réguliers premier groupe (-ER)
Pour les absents
Voici quelques sites pour pratiquer ( & pour plus d’info…)
Bien sûr, l’incontournable Tex. A very helpful listening exercise.
You might want to practice your pronunciation, try this:
More writing practice?
And finally, directly from Austria, especially for you:
More to come… (I think???) on Mon numéro de téléphone est…. & J’habite à Sydney en Australie….
Passez une excellente semaine et à bientôt
DB
-Quoi de neuf?
-Bof! Ce n’est pas ton affaire!
| Ca va? | |
| Ca va | bien |
| ça va | le travail |
| ça va | le bébé |
| Quoi de neuf? | |
| Rien. | |
| Pas beaucoup. | |
| Pas grand chose. | |
| Ce n’est pas votre affaire. | |
Remember Bof! without body language is not bof. Come on shrug these shoulders… Bof!
If you want to know more about this fascinating topic
Beau/mauvais
Il fait beau
Il fait mauvais
The numbers
+ plus / et
- moins
= égale
2+4 = 6
8-5 = 3
Saying where you live
J’habite à Sydney en Australie
W/s to download : les-nationalites.pdf
Voilà, more to come et merci Felisimina pour les tables: getting there
Revision
Here a few more places where you can review some of the French we covered, so that the words become second nature to you.
Each one of them takes only a few minutes.
I know, I know there are a lot of them. But go through them at leisure, whenever it is convenient but try to make of it a short but regular activity…
Talk French
Click on Greetings, Introduction, Where you’re from. Where you live and work.
Les presentations: vocabulary and two listening exercises
More presentations from the BBC with speaking and writing drills
Basic vocab review with audio links to hear the word or phrase pronounced in French.
How to be polite in three listening exercises
Saying what you do
Chat ( a nice ‘bof!)
A samedi
Bonjour Danny,
I have had much more success with the blog this time around. I have managed to do some listening exercises which were really helpful.
ciao,
Karen.
Commentaire par Karen Smith — 23 février, 2007 @ 12:28 |
Salut Danny!
Merci pour University of Regina links. The little quizzes on spelling and postcodes were very good! I kept getting confused with the pronounciations of R and E – but I got there in the end.
The song was very nice but a little too fast for my “slow” hearing.
The MCQ link at the end is not active?
Thanks again
Felisimina
Commentaire par Felisimina — 25 février, 2007 @ 8:01 |
Salut Danny
I like the link to Dynamots – Les Salutations. It has 23 pages! I have started them but am wondering if I should continue all the way to the end?
I think I will go through the rest of your exercises above first and then return to the Dynamots (and other) sites afterwards.
Je suis fatigue!
Bon nuit (sp?)
Commentaire par Felisimina — 25 février, 2007 @ 8:11 |
Salut Felisimina
Non. Bien sûr que non. For the time being only the very first page.
Tu es fatiguée. Je suis fatigué aussi.
And even if it’s a bit early now, bonne nuit aussi.
DB
Commentaire par db — 25 février, 2007 @ 8:12 |
Commentaire par dbittoun — 8 novembre, 2006 @ 11:17 | Modifier
Bonsoir Danny!
I have been through most of Lecon 3. I really enjoy doing the interactive exercises. They are useful to practice with. I also enjoy having the audio component while i am revising what we have learnt.I was wondering whether we would be able to check our answers for the practise situations?
A demain,
Bonne soiree,
Romy
Commentaire par Romy — 25 février, 2007 @ 8:13 |
Of course Romy. Remind me next lesson if possible at the beginning of lesson and we can go over the situations. D’accord?
Commentaire par db — 25 février, 2007 @ 8:13 |
Bonjour Danny,
I really like the links to the sites that you can listen to pronounciation, it allows you to practice. I also like the quizzes or mini-tests to reinforce what you know (or think you know).
Merci,
Rachael
Commentaire par Rachael — 18 mai, 2007 @ 7:10 |
Bravo. continuez Rachael et bon courage.
DB
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