I have not written anything for sometimes now. I have just retired from teaching but feel that some of you may still be interested in exploiting some items that I find interesting so I have decided to post something from time to time. Feedback would be appreciated.
We have done the perfect. It is used in the past as well. What is the difference?
The imperfect describe an action in the past. You would use was or were in English. (The weather was nice. They were lots of beaches to explore)
It could also something that you used to do ( I used to play a lot of sport when I was your age. I did not use to watch telly all the time.)
How do you form the imperfect tense?
You need to look at the present tense of the verb that you want to use so for I used to play, you would look at to play= jouer in the present tense: Je joue etc. Then look at the nous form- nous jouons. When you have this, remove the nous and the -ons. You are left with the stem jou-
Use this to conjugate your verb and add the following endings:
Nearly all of them. To be: être is the only exception- You use the stem ét- instead.
Can we have some examples?
faire --- nous faisons. Remove nous and ons and conjugate
je faisais
tu faisais
il/elle/on faisait
nous faisions
vous faisiez
ils/elles faisaient
Now listen to this song. It is quite an old song but it tells the story of a young man who used to buy a pain au chocolat every morning at the bakery's. The young lady behind the counter was in love with him ......
Look at the worksheets below- You listen and complete with the appropriate missing verb. You can also cut the sentences and put them in the right order. I am also including the lyrics. To follow up make a cartoon of the song, you can use toondoon or Go animate.
This new documentary ( in French cinemas at the moment) is certainly worth looking at. It raises lots of issues on the dangers faced by everyone of us - Just have look at the trailer (bande-annonce)- Look at the figures (les chiffres)- 70% of cancers would be caused by what we are doing to our environment.
Travail
Regardez la bande annonce
Quelles sont vos premières réactions?
Pensez vous que ce problème s'applique aussi à votre pays?
Lisez les statistiques (synopsis) - faites correspondre les chiffres avec un exemple:
100 000 - c'est le nombre d'enfants qui meurent de maladies causées par l'environnement 1,1% - etc-----
2. Que pensez-vous de la décision prise par le maire du petit village des Cévennes? Pouvez-vous faire des comparaisons avec des décisions prises dans votre pays?
3. Ecrivez un article pour le journal de votre ville dans lequel vous discuterez des problèmes de l'environnement dans votre ville. Mettez-y vos propres recommendations.
