LESSON 5

French For Beginners

Duration: 21 minutes
G g g g grammar time...

Track Listing
2
More first words
TRACK 1: My annoying
advert (sorry!)
Bonjour (Hello)
Comment allez-vous? (How are you? - the formal way)
Aujourd’hui c’est lundi 6 mars 2006 (Today it is Monday 6th TRACK 2:
March 2006) Introduction...
Quelle est la date aujourd’hui? (What is the date today?)
Est-ce que c’est…? (Is it…?) TRACK 3: Correction of
Quel temps fait-il? (What is the weather like?)
Quelle est la date de ton anniversaire? (What is the date of your quiz 4
birthday?)
Anniversaire (Birthday or anniversary) TRACK 4: More
Mon anniversaire est le 17 mai et le votre? (My birthday is on
the 17th of May, and yours?) numbers... (apparently,
S’il vous plaît? (Please - the formal way) they go on forever...)
S’il te plaît? (Please – the less formal way)
TRACK 5: Conjugation
3 revision of avoir
Correction of Quiz 4
TRACK 6: Making
1) How do you say ‘he has’ in French!?
1) Answer = (b) Il a sentences/describing
2) What does ‘vous avez’ mean?
yourself
2) Answer = (c) You have (formal and/or plural)
3) How do you spell November in French?
3) Answer = N O V E M B R E TRACK 7: Quiz 5
(translation exercise)
4
More numbers
TRACK 8: Au revoir

Vingt (Twenty)
TRACK 9: Song:
Trente (Thirty) Marinette, elle est jolie
mais elle est bête
LESSON 5
French For Beginners
Duration: 21 minutes

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Conjugation revision: to have

J’ai (I have) Tu as (you have) Il a (he has) Elle a (she has) Nous
avons (we have) Vous avez (you have) Ils ont (they have) elles ont
(they have)

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Making sentences / describing yourself

Nouns! ! ! ! ! Adjectives

Des cheveux (hair)! ! ! Blond(s) (blonde) Noir(s) (black)

Des yeux (eyes) ! ! ! Châtain(s)(chestnut) Gris (gray) Blanc(s) (white)
Une moustache (moustache)! ! Marron(s) (brown) Bleu(s) (blue) Vert(s) (green)
Une barbe (beard)! ! ! Court(s) (short) long(s) (long)

Il a des cheveux blonds, des yeux bleus et une barbe (he has blonde hair, blue eyes and a beard)

J’ai des cheveux noirs, des yeux marrons et une moustache! (I have black hair, brown eyes and a
moustache!)

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conjugate anant verb: Être (to
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Quiz 5 (Translation Exercise)
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1. Je suis petite et j’ai les cheveux marrons.
2. Il a une barbe et il a les cheveux noirs.! e e y o u t h en, Alexa ;-)
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3. Nous avons des cheveux châtains et des yeux verts.

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Au revoir (+ messages)
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Song (by lo polidoro)
• Marinette, elle est jolie mais elle est bête