Word Match

Use the vocabulary you learned yesterday!

 

Bonus! Flash cards! Click here to download the PDF. 

Fruits et Légumes

Now for something slightly different! First in a series of visual vocabulary pictures:

Fruits and vegetables: a random selection.

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Mots croisés de Noël

Réponses!

Noël!

With christmas music playing in every mall, grocery store and office building, it's hard not to get in the mood!

Here is a christmas themed crossword puzzle! It's a little bit more difficult, so feel free to use the dictionary, google and whatever else you please, and help each other in the comments :)

Answers tomorrow.

Wednesday Mad-Libs

...in which I take a bunch of completely random* words from the dictionary for your vocabulary learning entertainment.

 Our words today are:

aiguille	nom féminin
couloir	nom masculin
modeler	verbe
nerveux	adjectif
séance	nom feminin
table	nom feminin

What do they mean?

aiguille	needle, for sewing, or for injecting things into other things
couloir	hallway
modeler	to sculpt or to shape something
nerveux/se	nervous
séance	session, meeting
table	table

Let’s see these new words in action!

 Aujourd’hui je pars pour une séance d’information avec ma couturière. La dernière fois que je l’ai vu elle était debout sur une table et modelait une reproduction de mon corps en argile à l’aide de ses aiguilles. Ça me rend très nerveuse surtout parce qu’elle vient de déménager au bout du couloir.

Today's challenge:

 

1.      Read up on voodoo.

2.      Continue the story.

*Actually chosen by l'internaute.

Going somewhere?

 How are you getting there? Well, I guess you could walk, but that might take a while depending on the distance.

une bicyclette (qc), un vélo (fr)	bicycle, (bike)
une automobile, une auto, un char (qc)	car
un camion	truck
un autobus	bus
un train	train
un traversier (qc), un transbordeur (fr)	ferry
un avion	plane
une fusée	rocket

And some verbs you might find useful:

marcher	to walk
courir	to run
nager	to swim
conduire	to drive
voyager	to travel
piloter	to pilot
prendre	to take
faire	to do

Now let’s put it together!

faire de la bicyclette (qc), faire du vélo(fr)	to ride a bike
conduire une auto[mobile]	to drive a car
conduire un camion	to drive a truck
prendre l’autobus	to take the bus
prendre le train	to take the train
prendre le traversier/transbordeur	to take the ferry
piloter un avion	to pilot a plane
prendre l’avion	to take the plane
piloter une fusée	to pilot a rocket
voyager en train, auto, autobus, avion	to travel by train, car, bus, plane

Just be glad you aren't travelling on this highway ;)

Verb of the day / A bit of pronounciation

Your verb for today is Manger: to eat

Manger is a verb of the ER type. Its conjugation is fairly simple and follows the ER verb pattern, but with a slight exception! Due to the fact that it contains the letter g before the ER, it sometimes requires an extra e (which is not pronounced) when it lands in front of hard vowels such as a, u and o. 

 

But why??

The letter G can be pronounced two ways in French. It can be hard (like in gust!) or soft (like in gin, but without the d sound.) The way it goes depends on the letter following it. 

Soft Vowels	e	gémir, gèle, mangeais, neige
	i	gite, giraffe , girouette, gigantesque
	y	gynécologue, gyroscope
Hard Vowels	a	gamme, gamin, gant, gallop
	o	gomme, Congo, bingo,
	u	guérir, longue. guide *

*The u in those words is ONLY used to make the g hard, and is not pronounced. I think there must be a few words where the u is pronounced after a g, but I couldn’t come up with any…

Anyway, here is the verb Manger, conjugated for you, with the extra e’s highlighted.

Présent	Imparfait	Future simple
Today, I eat	Yesterday, I was eating	Tomorrow, I will eat
je mange tu manges il mange nous mangeons vous mangez ils mangent	je mangeais tu mangeais il mangeait nous mangions vous mangiez ils mangeaient	je mangerai tu mangeras il mangera nous mangerons vous mangerez ils mangeront

Your challenge:

1.      Think of a word with a g in it where it’s pronounced softly and a word where it is pronounced hard. Bonus points for having both g’s in the same word!

2.      Make a sentence describing what you are eating for lunch.