Topic One (1.1): Ça commence bien

 Reading

Read pages 5-7 of your coursebook and complete Exercises 1-10. If you need assistance translating the text or understanding how to complete the tasks, please read the instructions below.

 Vocabulary

You should now start a vocabulary notebook, where you list the French words down one side of a page and the English equivalents on the other.  Then, whenever you find a new word, you could add it to your book.  This would allow you to look back and see what you have learnt and test yourself, by covering each side of each page in turn and seeing if you can remember either the English or the French words.

ONLY REFER TO THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW IF YOU REQUIRE ASSISTANCE WITH YOUR EXERCISES

Page 5

Exercises 1 and 2. If you are studying alone, you can still do these exercises, though you obviously can’t swap with other groups of students.

Pages 6-7

Exercise 1. If you don’t know all the verbs for the other things you do every morning, use this site Links to an external site. to look them up.  To help you think of the words you need, just think through what you do in the morning from the moment you wake up.

If you get stuck, look at page 9 of the scanned-in Teacher’s book on Canvas for some suggestions.

Exercise 2. If you don’t have a partner, leave this exercise out.

Exercise 3. Écrivez! means ‘write!’ and it is one of the imperative (command) forms of the verb écrire. Recette means ‘recipe’.  What do you think équitable means?  The same word exists in English (though without the accent) so if you don’t know it, look it up in either English or French.

What do you think an ‘appli’ is? Hint: take off the last two letters.

Exercise 4. Read the screen and complete the list of ‘personnes’ which starts with ‘moi’ on the right-hand side.   

Exercise 5. If you don’t have a partner, just write down the information as in A of the example.  This is so that you practise using full sentences to talk about your household chores.  

Exercise 6. In French if you ‘think of’ something, you use ‘penser à’. ‘d’autres’ means ‘other’.  Where might you do ‘le jardinage’?

Exercise 7. Note that ‘à deux’ means ‘in a pair’.  If you are studying alone, you obviously can’t follow this instruction, but you can still note down ‘le plus de noms de transport possible’ – as many as you can.  

Exercise 8. For this exercise you need to look at the list of types of transport you made for 7 and see which would rhyme with the word at the end of the sentence e.g. L’école en voiture, ça pollue la nature.

Exercise 9. For this exercise, follow the example.  You are being asked to make sentences in the same way that you did for 8 but beginning ‘Les vacances en...’  If you are feeling creative, you could write this out as a poster.

Exercise 10. The writers of the Coursebook are assuming that you already know the names of the subjects.  If not, look them up and write them down. 

Exercise 11. This should be fun.  See if you can think of a subject to go with each letter of the alphabet.  Use Fiche 1.01 Download Fiche 1.01

 and fill in your answers in the ‘Mes réponses’ column.

Exercise 12. You can this leave out if you are studying on your own.