Tense Usage in French Traject 1

Study Notes

Informing text (texte informatif): Four informative text
Who? Four young lions
Source: News report
Content: Four young lions found and taken to a zoo in Saint-Martin-la-Plaine, France; they were in poor health.
Problem: The lions were in poor health.
Solution: Moved to a wildlife park in South Africa.
Reason: Accustomed to human contact; cannot survive without help.
Grammar:
- Regular future tense (-ER and -IR verbs): Infinitive + endings (e.g., je jouerai).
- Regular future tense (-RE verbs): Infinitive without "e" + endings (e.g., j'entendrai).
- Irregular future tense verbs: Specific list of exceptions (avoir, aller, être, faire, courir, pouvoir, voir, envoyer, recevoir, devoir, pleuvoir, venir, tenir, vouloir, falloir).
- Irregular future tense conjugations in the example provided.
- Imperfect tense.
- Recent past tense.
- Future near tense.
- Future simple tense.
- Conditional present tense.
- Imperative verbs.
- Impersonal verbs/expressions (e.g., il fait, il pleut, il neige, il faut).
- Examples of usage and how to form them.
- Examples of expressions in relation to weather and time.
Language Points/ Vocabulary:
- Weather expressions (e.g., beau, nuageux, pluie, neige).
- Numbers from 10 to 1000.
- French regions of Belgium, France, and Switzerland with different number formations for 70-90.
- Five major rivers in France.
- General weather descriptions

Recipe (recette): Recipe
Instructions/Guide (mode d'emploi): Instructions/directions
Rules/Regulations (rôle de jeu, consignes): Rules for a game or instructions to follow.
Grammar related to Articles:
- Defined articles (le, la, les, l'— "les" for plural nouns)
- Indefinite articles (un, une, des).
- Contracted articles (au, du, à la, de la, aux, des—Note the form change when plural).
- Partitive articles (du, de la, de l') — Singular form only.
- How to use and differentiate between them.
- Examples of using various articles in different sentences (body parts, health problems, conditions).
Vocabulary/Language
- Nouns relating to various subjects (body parts, health).
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