Refresher French – Summary #1
For this first lesson, we started a few revisions: how to ask questions, negatives, basic verbs… Then you practised “interrogating” one another using the questionnaires I had given. We didn’t have time to have a look at the song I had selected, but you can watch the video clip here.
Regarding questions — We had a look at the 3 different ways used to ask a question – either using an inversion (most formal), using ‘est-ce que’ (easier to coin from English), or using the intonation (by far the most common/natural way of asking a question in spoken French)
Here are the most common interrogative words:
Quand when
Comment how
Pourquoi why
Combien how much/many
Que or qu’est-ce que or quoi what
Qui who
We also quickly looked at son/sa/ses (his/her) – Please check out this table:
| Masculine singular | Feminine singular | Masc & Fem Plural | |
|
MY |
Mon père | Ma mère | Mes parents |
| YOUR | Ton père | Ta mère | Tes parents |
| HIS / HER | Son père | Sa mère | Ses parents |
| OUR | Notre père | Notre mère | Nos parents |
| YOUR | Votre père | Votre mère | Vos parents |
| THEIR | Leur père | Leur mère |
Leurs parents |
Devoirs / Homework
– Game (see page 2): first column. Read out each question, translate it into English, answer it and rephrase it using the “tu”.
– Check out the verbs in page 3
– Look up the vocabulary (in English)
Vocabulaire
un film d’amour
un film d’action
un film historique
un concepteur de sites web
un(e) kinésithérapeute / kiné
avoir un copain / une copine
un bureau
