Your first assignment for French in Action leçon 9 is simply going to be a part of your review of the introduction and lessons 2 - 8. I won't ask you to write out and send me all of these pages but work on these until you can do them without looking at the French sheet. When you can do that, you are ready for the review portion of the exam.

Read the story line in the text and refer to the vocabulary as needed. On an exam, you should be able to give the English equivalent of anything found in the story line.

We will also have, of course, questions covering the leçon 9 story line. The Mise en oeuvre section concentrates on the major elements of the story, and you will be expected to be able to give the French equivalent of the story line questions and answers. Your exam materials will be taken from the following.

This observation deals with the new meaning we have for the expression il y a in this lesson. Il y a normally means there is or there are. Here, when used with a time expression, il y a means ago. The examples in the workbook then have the following meanings.

Il y a deux ans --- two years ago

Il y a quatre ans --- four years ago

Il y a dix-huit ans --- eighteen years ago

Il y a une heure --- an hour ago

There are three words in French meaning my. Mon is used with masculine nouns and feminine nouns starting with a vowel. Ma is used with feminine nouns starting with a consonant, and mes is used with plural nouns. Thus, in the box, we have the following:

Mon cousin --- my male cousin

Ma cousine --- my female cousin

Mon arrière-grand-mère --- my great grandmother. (feminine, but starting with a vowel)

Mes cousins --- my male cousins

You are Mireille. Someone is asking you who all these people are. Answers the questions with the appropriate word for my; mon, ma, mes. Click below for my commentary as well as the answers and English equivalents.

Here, Mireille seems to be suffering from some kind of memory lapse. She is asking us who her family members are. We answer in the familiar with a form of your: ton, ta, tes. I have provided a commentary along with the answers and English equivalents.

Here we have the same questions about the family members, but we are talking about Mireille and will use the appropriate form of her: son, sa, ses.

This exercise uses a variety of forms of my, your, his, or her. You have to pay particular attention to the questions to see if we are talking to Mireille or about her, or if Mireille is talking about herself and her family. This exercise could appear in it's workbook form on the lesson exam.

(W 105) --- 9.8 -- Observation: Adjectifs possessifs; notre, votre, leur, nos, vos, leurs. Now we have the possessive adjectives for our, your (formal) and their. For these possessives we don't have to worry about different masculine and feminine forms in the singular; we just a form followed by a singular noun and a form followed by a plural noun.

They are as follows:

Our - notre (followed by singular) and nos (followed by a plural)

Your - votre (singular) and vos (plural)

Following the example

combine the two sentences using the appropriate for of our (notre, nos), your (votre, vos), or their (leur, leurs).

Change the sentences following the example.

You are playing an idiotic game.

Your game is idiotic.

Insert the appropriate form of the possessive adjectives.

You have a very indulgent father.

Your father is very indulgent.

Complete the sentences with the appropriate form of the possessive adjective. Follow the example.

Mireille has a very nice mother.

Her mother is very nice.

In this exercise we learn that there are things that certain people don't have. Using the expression donnons (let's give), we will indicate that we are going to give these things to the people in question. Follow the example.

The young people don't have a family.

Let's give a family to the young people.

Here we are going to use the expression jouons (let's play) followed by the name of the game. We must use à la, à l', au, aux following the verb jouer.

Here it is again. The verb faire + du, de la, de l', or des is used with sports and activities and the verb jouer + au, à la, à l', or aux is used with games. Note that in the case of a sport which is also a game, either construction may be used. For example:

Mireille joue au tennis. (Mireille plays tennis.)

Mireille fait du tennis. Mireille does some tennis.)

Answer the questions using the verbs faire and jouer as is appropriate.

Complete the sentences with the appropriate form à la, à l', au to give the meaning to the or at the.

Answer the questions using jouer and faire.

1. outside the main sentence to emphasize the subject: me, you, him, her, us, you, them. (first two columns)
2. in single word responses: me, you, him, her, us, you, them.
3. following prepositions, in this case the preposition à to show possession: à moi (to me, mine), à toi (to you, yours), à lui (to him, his), à elle (to her, hers), etc.

In this exercise the stress pronoun is used to show whose turn it is.

Georges va faire le portrait suivant. C'est à lui.

Georges is going to do the following portrait. It's his turn (to him).

Do the rest of the sentences in the same manner using the appropriate stress pronoun.

In this exercise the stress pronoun is used for the single work answer instead of using a sentence.

Vous allez au cinéma. Et moi? --- Toi aussi.

You (plural) are going to the movies. And me? --- You (fam.) too.

Do the rest of the exercise in the same manner.

All three of these charts deal with the same vocabulary

Quelqu'un = someone

Une personne = a person

But personne used with the negative (ne _______ personne) ... means no one and gives us one more negative to go with those we have already had.

Ne __________pas = not

Ne __________ jamais = never

Ne __________ rien = nothing

Ne __________ plus = no more, no longer

Ne __________ personne = no one, not anyone

So, in the boxes we have

I'll deal just with the examples here.

Il y a quelqu'un.? --- Oui, il y a quelqu'un

Vous voyez quelqu'un? --- Oui, je vois trois personnes.

Vous voyez quelqu'un? --- Non, je ne vois personne.

And in English.

There is someone? --- Yes, there is someone.

You see someone? --- Yes, I see three people.

Pleuvoir = to rain (conjugated only in the il form).

The key in this exercise is to understand the meaning of what you see. The choice between a form of pleuvoir and a form of pleurer will be clear. In addition, if the subject is anything other than il, you must use pleurer.

Figure out what is being said, and then insert the correct form of the appropriate verb.

The verb rester = to stay or remain. With the impersonal il suject, it takes on the meaning of something remaining or being left. The en can be translated as some, any, or of them. Thus, the sentences in the box have the following meanings:

Il reste des galettes? = Are any cookies left?

Il reste des galettes. = Some cookies remain (are left). There are some cookies left.

Il en reste. = There are some left.

Il est reste deux galettes. = There are two cookies left.

More of the same type thing ---

Il reste des galettes? = Are any cookies left?

Il ne reste pas de galettes. = There aren't any cookies left.

Il n'en reste pas. = There aren't left.