1. FRANCAIS 1 Week 3

2. OPENER  Take your assessment from Friday and answer the following questions.  1. Did you write 1 paragraph about sound differences?  2. Did you write one paragraph about culture as is it stated in the prompt?  3. Did you include 3 examples in EACH paragraph?

3. ADJECTIVES  Adjectives in French function like adjectives in English. They are words that modify the nouns. They provide description of some sort.  In French, the noun will usually follow the noun. It also must be masculine or feminine, like the noun.  Example – the blond girl  La fille blonde.  The blond boy.  Le garcon blond.  Usually you add an –e to make adjective feminine

4. LES ADJECTIFS  Petit ( puh tee) petite ( phu teet)  Grand ( gron)grande ( gruh annd)  Brun ( bruhn) brune( broone)  Blond( blon)blonde ( blonduh)  Amusant( ah mu son) amusante ( ah mu sont)  Patient ( pah see on) patiente ( pah see ont)  Intelligent ( in tell ee juh on ) intelligente ( in tell ee johnt)  Interessant ( enter ress on) interessante(enter ress ont)

5. PRATIQUER  Use page 46 to practice adjectives  Le garcon ( luh gar son)  La fille ( la fee yuh)

6. ETRE PAGE 30  Etre – to be  This is an important, irregular verb in French. It is used often in sentences and you must memorize the forms.

7. ETRE  Je suis ( ju swee) nous Sommes( new som)  Tu es ( two ay)vous etes ( vooz ette)  Il/elle est ( ill/elle ay) ils/elles sont ( ill/elle son)

8. PRATIQUER  Use page 31 to practice  Conversation page 18. 19  Exercise 1 page 20

9. CLOSER  Workbook exercises to practice adjectives and etre.