For those of you who would like to raise your grade on the Writing Clinic Quiz (or your overall grade – French 4), here’s an exercise to you can complete and turn in by MONDAY, 5/21/12. le petit chaperon rouge
1. Fill in the acronymns for HIDE and STARS. Above the lines, circle which tense is used with which acronym.
2. In the story exercise, you will see it formatted like this: Ex, Elle (être) ____ (1) ____ gentille et jolie.
On the first blank (after the verb in parentheses), conjugate to verb, choosing the right tense (either the PC or Imparfait). On the line AFTER the (#), write the letter from HIDE or STARS that explains why you chose that tense.
Answer: Ex, Elle (être) était (1) D (description in the past) gentille et jolie.
*** Use the file “Demistifying the Passé Composé and Imparfait” (from an earlier blog post) to help you with this exercise ***
Please click on the link for instructions on our class project Vandertramp photo project
Reminder: VANDERTRAMP illustration is due Thursday.
See the sample below. Remember, you must write complete sentences (using each VANDERTRAMP verb at least once) that match your illustrations, paying careful attention to subject/past participle agreements. Please vary your subjects.
Bonjour classe!
Aujourd’hui, nous allons faire une visite virtuelle de la merveilleuse ville de Paris!
Ouvre le document et suis les instructions. Une Semaine à Paris
Bon voyage!
Here’s the list of selected (and available) monuments. Remember, you may trade with a classmate, if you mutually consent to do so. Also, there are many other monuments that are not listed (i.e., le Parc de la Villette, le Musée Cluny, le Musée Rodin, le Musée Caranavalet, La Sainte Chappelle, la Défense, la Tour Saint Jacques, le Pont Neuf et les bateaux mouches ou les bouqinistes de la Seine, etc.) You may ask me about some of those choices, should you wish to trade yours.
Monument Choices Fr 2 & C
Here you’ll also find the intructions for the project, should you have lost yours. Create Your Own Parisian Monument
Here are your classmates’ presentations on the above topics.
Future Tenses.katejenny and Le Conditionnel
These are good review for your upcoming oral exams.
Bonne chance 
Check out the posts on the following site to help you master regular ER verb conjugation & pronunciation (under Ents and Entwives) and understanding conjugation patterns (under A Word about Verb Conjugation and Patterns).
Here are 2 new files you can refer to for how to form the passé composé. Le PC Overview & PC easy as 123
Voici l’article que nous avons lu en classe. Sarko trop d’étrangers (Only the bolded parts are required reading, but you are welcome to challenge yourself to read the entire article) Si vous n’avez pas fini de le faire, répondez aux questions (sous l’article) comme devoirs.
Here is a link that should help further clarify the formation of and differet uses of the passé composé vs. the imparfait.
Demystifying French Grammar
high-frequency-wordsHere’s a list of some of the most common French words. This is not an all-inclusive list, but it is useful for the early stages of language acquisition. Also to remember, there are grammar rules (such as contractions) and other applications (like conjugation) that apply to many of these. Please feel free to ask me, if you would like me to review them with you.
Mrs. Benford