I - (Textbook closed) Direct questions in class: "Mise en oeuvre" in your textbook p.17. Please answer the questions that your moderator is asking without looking at your text book.
II - (Workbook open) Working on material in the workbook with audio-tapes:
3.1 Text work-up: This exercise will help you identify and practice the important words and structures of the lesson. You will hear key words repeated several times. You will hear a single or double musical signal followed by a pause.
3.2 Aural comprehension: Interactive exercises with your tape and your workbook. Listen to section 3.2 on the audio recording and look at the pictures reproduced in your workbook. Match the phrases you hear with the corresponding pictures.
3.3 Oral production: Listen to each of the dialogues and answer the question that follows as you heard it answered in the dialogue. You will then hear the correct answer for confirmation. ( You can peek at your workbook only if you are lost, then repeat the exercise until you can produce the full sentence confortably. At this point read the text of lesson 3 in your textbook. Do not forget to read the captions of the illustrations, they give you other exemples of the word you have to learn.
3.4 Interrogation:
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La jeune fille est-elle française? |
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Est-ce que la jeune fille est française? |
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Qui est-ce qui va inventer une histoire |
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Qu'est-ce que nous allons inventer? |
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Pourquoi allons-nous inventer une histoire? |
3.5 The purpose of this exercise is to recognize the 4 types of questions
3.6 - 3.7 Pronunciation: French is easy to pronounce. the accent falls on the last syllable of the rhytmic group. Words which gramatically belong together constitute rhytmic group.
3.8 - 3.12 "il" and "elle" and "l" = /il/ + /ail/ + /l/
3.13 - 3.16 + 3.19 - 3.20 The indefinite article "un", "une", "des"
| masculin | un professeur |
un* ami un* étudiant |
des professeurs des hommes |
| feminin | une fille |
une* amie une* étudiante |
des filles |
Pronunciation: * this is to indicate that whenever the words which follows the article starts with a vowel, you drag the sound "n" to the beginning of the following word: /un-na-mi/ /un-né-tu-djan/ /u-na-mi/ /u-né-tu-djant/
3.17 - 3.20 The definite article "le", "la", "les"
| masculin |
le professeur |
l' homme l'ami |
les professeurs les amis les hommes |
| féminin | la fille | l'amie |
les filles les amies |
The singular and the plural of a noun constitutes its "number" while the feminin or masculin of a word constitute its "gender"
3.21 Dictation. Write the missing word correctly.
3.22 Written exercise: Decide which definite article fits.
3.23 - 3.26 Masculine and feminine ending of adjectives:
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| un professeur anglais | une jeune fille anglaise |
| un professeur américain | une jeune fille américaine |
| un professeur italien | une jeune fille italienne |
3.27 Infinitives: In french you recognize an infinitive by its ending:
-er (parler), -ir (choisir), -oir (savoir), -re (apprendre)
There are 3 groupes of verbes in French:
3.29 - 3.34 The immediate futur: in order to facilitate your conversation about things which are about to happen, we suggest that you use an easy form called "the immediate futur". It is built on the present of the verbe "aller" + the infinitive of the verbe you chose to express your thought.
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| je mange | je vais manger |
| tu apprends | tu vas apprendre le français |
| il choisit | il/elle va choisir une jeune fille |
| nous travaillons | nous allons travailler |
| vous inventez | vous allez inventer une histoire |
| ils/elles parlent | ils/elles vont parler français |
3.35 - 3.36 Dictation : Listen and write the missing words in your textbook.
3.37 listen to the dialogue and repeat Jean-Michel's line as often as necessary, until you can answer Mireille confidently. Avoid looking at the written text.
Self-testing exercises: