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Unité 4 Le monde personnel et familier
Leçon 11: Le copain de Mireille
OBJECTIVES
NOTE Culturelle L’amitié et la bande de copains French people believe in friendship (l’amitié) and family life and rank these values far above money, material comfort, and personal success. The friendships they establish at an early age tend to be durable. Since French people move much less frequently than Americans, and since distances are much smaller, they remain in close contact with their high school friends throughout their entire lives. French teenagers, like their American counterparts, are very sociable. They have a close-knit group of friends, known as la bande de copains, with whom they share common interests. They go out together, especially to movies, concerts, and parties. This group may include classmates, cousins, other young people whom they have met during vacations, as well as the children of family friends. When young people invite their friends to the house, it is customary to introduce them to their parents.
A. Les adjectifs: masculin et féminin Compare the forms of the adjectives in heavy print as they describe masculine and feminine nouns.
In written French, feminine adjectives are usually formed as follows:
→ If the masculine adjective ends in -e, there is no change in the feminine form.
→ Adjectives that follow the above patterns are called REGULAR adjectives. Those that do not are called IRREGULAR adjectives. For example:
NOTE French dictionaries list adjectives by their masculine forms. For irregular adjectives, NOTES DE PRONONCIATION:
LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE ADJECTIVES are words that describe people, places, and things. In French, MASCULINE adjectives are used with masculine nouns, and FEMININE adjectives are used with feminine nouns. This is called NOUN-ADJECTIVE AGREEMENT.
VOCABULAIRE La description ADJECTIFS amusant amusing, fun Il est amusant. Elle est amusante. ADVERBES assez rather Nous sommes assez intelligents.
B. Les adjectifs: masculin et féminin Compare the forms of the adjectives in heavy print as they describe singular and plural nouns.
In written French, plural adjectives are usually formed as follows:
→ If the masculine singular adjective already ends in -s, there is no change in the plural form.
NOTE DE PRONONCIATION: Because the final -s of plural adjectives is silent, singular and plural adjectives sound the same. SUMMARY: Forms of regular adjectives
SINGULAR - -e
PLURAL -s -es
VOCABULAIRE Les adjectifs de nationalité
Supplementary vocabulary
→ Words that describe nationality are adjectives and take adjective endings.
VOCABULAIRE Expression pour la conversation → How to introduce a conclusion:
C. La place des adjectives Note the position of the adjectives in the sentences on the right.
In French, adjectives usually come AFTER the noun they modify,according to the pattern:
Prononciation Les consonnes finales As you know, when the last letter of a word is a consonant, that consonant is often silent. But when a word ends in “e,” the consonant before it is pronounced. As you practice the following adjectives, be sure to distinguish between the masculine and the feminine forms.
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