Do Now: Give me 3 things you used to do.
L’imparfait Usage Day 1
Objective Students will be able to form the imperfect tense of regular and irregular verbs in order to describe a vacation. Students will be able to differentiate between the uses of the imperfect and past tense and explain how to do so.
the imperfect/ Passe compose Formation
Imperfect formation - find the nous form ONLY IRREGULAR: Chop of the ons être - ÉT endings: ais ions ais iez ait aient
Passé Composé Aux + P.P. (er-é, ir- i, re-u) être avoir suis ai es as est a sommes avons êtes avez sont ont
How do you use it? ( this is new) The imperfect and the passe compose mean basically the same thing.
The imperfect This is used for : Day 1: background information
Background information When you are talking about something that is not the main action happening, you need to use the imperfect. These verbs will always fit this category: être: to be porter: to wear
What about weather? Weather expressions will always be imperfect. What are they? Il pleuvait - it was raining ( this is already in imperfect)
More (these are infinitive) : faire beau: to be beautiful faire du soleil: to be sunny faire orageux: to be stormy avoir froid : to be cold avoir chaud: to be hot faire mauvais : to be bad out
More: faire de la grêle : to hail geler: to freeze faire mal: to be bad out neiger: to snow être nuageux : to be cloudy