French I
Lesson 19
CLASSWORK
TROUVER L’OBJET-TO FIND AN OBJECT:
Allons au parc
Let’s go to the park
Le serf-volant
A kite
La fille
A girl
La corde à sauter
A skipping rope
Sauter à la corde
To skip
La balançoire
Swing
Le garçon
A boy
Le vélo
A bike
The verb groups
In English, the infinite tense is built by adding " to " in front of the verb : to say, to see,
to eat, etc. In French, the infinite tense is indicated by appending -er, -ir or -re to the
verb. Examples :
-er
parler (to talk) chanter (to sing) manger (to eat) marcher (to walk) aller (to go) écouter
(to listen to) laver (to wash) commencer (to begin)
-ir
finir (to end) mourir (to die) courir (to run) sentir (to feel) avoir (to have) venir (to
come) savoir (to know) vouloir (to want)
-re
sourire (to smile) vivre (to live) boire (to drink) entendre (to hear) être (to be) conduire
(to drive) vendre (to sell)
The verbs ending with -er are referred to as " first group " verbs, the verbs ending with
-ir compose the " second group " and the verbs with the ending -re form the " third
group ". It is useful to distribute the verbs between these 3 groups because different
conjugation rules apply to each group as we're going to see.
Conjugation of the 3rd group verbs
vivre (to live)
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je vis
tu vis
il/elle vit
nous vivons
vous vivez
ils/elles vivent
French I
Lesson 19
HOMEWORK
1. Repeat the French words with the indefinite articles given in class
(Look at the Classwork). Here is a website with a text-to-speech
feature: http://www.sitepal.com/ttswidgetdemo.
Make sure you
change the language to French. You can also change the voice.
2. Repeat the verbs of the first group BOIRE et VIVRE and prepare for
the test.
3. Complete the Prepositions ASSIGNMENT:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
Le chat est (on) l‘arbre.
Je vois le stylo (on) la table.
Le livre est (under) la chaise.
J’aime manger les glaces (in) le parc.
J’aime cette maison (in) cette rue.
Il y a quelques arbres (in) ce parc
Nous habitons (in) cette maison.
L’ordinateur est (in) ma chamber.
4. Complete a quiz using the aright French prepositions:
http://iteslj.org/v/fr/rb-prepositions.html
5. Complete the assignment translating the expressional sentences into
French using the appropriate forms of the verb TO BE-ETRE:
6. Complete the quiz using the correct forms of the first group verbs: