Sixième et septième cours de français
I was lazy last week (j'étais paresseux!) and did not do a blog submission! So here are the submissions from this week and last ~ oui.
We rehearsed speaking our phone numbers and what we do for work this week!
Bonjour! Je m’appelle Alice. Je suis (métier/profession) <doctaurant en design> et je suis (nationalité) Australien.
J’habite à Brisbane, en Australie. J’ai 26 ans (pron: vignt-scisson).
Mon numero de portable/télephone est 31-38-20-00.
Some interesting careers included a lady who plants seeds. Madame Chermont said, oh une pépinériste = someone who plants the seeds (un pépins). But she decided that une fleuriste was more accurate a description.
In France they have unusual phrases that incorporate numbers. For example, the police are associated with the number “22″ and “flics” similar to “cops” in english. E.g Vignt-deux, voila les flics!
The police are also called poulle, which also means chicken. Madame De Chermont told us of a friend in france who is a professeur of jeune. She asked the children to draw “poulle”, 2 drew real chickens, 4 drew a policeman and the rest drew packaged chicky from the supermarket. Good grief. Apparently there is only 1 farm in the whole of Paris for the school children to visit.
Another example is “Être sur sont 31″ which refers to wearing something formal. It literally asks you to to dress for the 31st (of December).
In France, when the doctor listens to you breathing they will say “Dites 33″, say 33. Apparently saying trente-trois helps the doctor hear the chest more clearly.
My favourite is haut comme trois pommes. It is a phrased used for “when I was young”. It translates literally to “the size of three apples”.
The counting system in france is v unusual. It comes from the times when they used to trade francs in bags of twenty.
We then marked our devoirs! It is really time for me to learn what a verb is in English so that I can learn them in French. Good grief.
The fancy table above is so helpful! It describes “avoir” to have. J’ai, Tu as, Il/Elle a, Nous avons, Vous avez, Elles/Ills sont <zzz sound.
I did all my homework for the first time ^0^ I am chuffed.
We are learning more about describing our “co-ordonée” - all the things to get in touch, our details.
Today madame De Chermont said, “I am in a cotton” because she has a head cold. It was the cutest.
She also said “it is quite disturbing” when trying to learn the french style of counting, but we are to keep it up!
Mon teléphone fixe. My home phone number.
We practiced learning the numbers a lot this week. Everyone called out a phone number and we wrote them down in english. Eloise and I were the best at it. We are nerds.
“Qui a le numéro de portable?” What is your mobile number?
We learned a few more bit and pieces about offering phone numbers. In France there are 5 districts, and they all start with a different two numbers (as in Australia (07), (02) (03) etc.
We also learned @ = arobase. - = tiret and _ = tiret bas. (which is useful when offering your email). Often the french emails end in .fr. Oh and hotmail is pron ‘otmail and gmail is pron: jaymail. of course!
We also began learning how to say what we like and do not like! What I have and what I do not have. The negatives, ooh la la.
We practised saying the things we like and do not like with our partner. Pour example, J’aime la musique! J’aime la natation! J’aime regarder main pas jouer. I enjoy swimming! I enjoy watching but prefer playing.
We examined more closely the Verbe de 1er <premier> groupe.
After, we completed exercises in our booklets which raised questions around schooling. Here is how the schooling grades work in France:
You are not a “étudiante” until university! Terminale is the last year of high school. Its as if they count the years backwards! unusual!
Voila! I love my french lessons. Oui oui.
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