Monsieur McKenna

Teacher of French

C’est tiguidou! -Québécois idiom

It’s all good!; Everything is a-okay!

Email: mckennaj@lcmrschools.com | Phone: (609) 884-3475

LCMR School District - 687 Route 9, Cape May, NJ 08204

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Unité 1

Famille et copains

Leçon 2B: Une coïncidence

OBJECTIVES

Students will be able …

To find out another person's name
To describe people and give their nationalities
To inquire about people
To use le (garçon) and la fille
To be aware of the importance of French heritage in Quebec, Canada
To talk about area codes for French citites using numbers 80 to 100
To pronounce the nasal vowel

Unit 1 Lecon 2B Vocabulaire

Montréal

La Ville de Québec

Québec PowerPoint

Québec City PowerPoint

le garçon, la fille

The French equivilant of the has two basic forms: le and la.

MASCULINE FEMININE

le garçon - the boy la fille - the girl
le copain - the friend (male) la copine - the friend (female)

Note: Both le and la become l' before a vowel sound

un copain → le copain une copine → la copine
un ami → l’ami une amie → l’amie

Les nombres de 80 à 1000

80 quatre-vingts

81 quatre-vingt-un
82 quatre-vingt-deux
83 quatre-vingt-trois
84 quatre-vingt-quatre
85 quatre-vingt-cinq
86 quatre-vingt-six
87 quatre-vingt-sept
88 quatre-vingt-huit
89 quatre-vingt-neuf

90 quatre-vingt-dix

91 quatre-vingt-onze
92 quatre-vingt-douze
93 quatre-vingt-treize
94 quatre-vingt-quatorze
95 quatre-vingt-quinze
96 quatre-vingt-seize
97 quatre-vingt-dix-sept
98 quatre-vingt-dix-huit
99 quatre-vingt-dix-neuf

100 cent 1000 mille

→Note that in counting from 80 to 99, the French add numbers to the base of quatre-vingts (fourscore):
80 = 4 × 20 90 = 4 × 20 + 10
85 = 4 × 20 + 5 99 = 4 × 20 + 19

Les nombres de 80 à 1000 - audio

Prononciation

La voyelle nasale / _ /

In French, there are three nasal vowel sounds:

/_ / cinq (5) /_ / onze (11) /_ / trente (30)

Practice the sound /_ / in the following words. Note that this vowel sound can have several different spellings.

→ Be sure not to pronounce an “n” or “m” after the nasal vowel.
Répétez: “in”             ci /nq qui /nze vi /n / g / t vi /n /g / t-ci /nq quatre-vi /n/g/ t-qui /nze
                “ain”           américai /n Alai /n copai /n
                “(i)en”         bie /n canadie /n tie /n/ s!
                “un”            u /n
                 Tie /n/ s! Voilà Alai /n. Il est américai /n. Et Julie /n? Il est canadie /n.