1. L’imparfait Day 3

2. 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.

3. Do Now: Find the nous form:
Write the verb « finir » in the imperfect tense with all pronouns (je, tu, il, nous, vous, ils)

4. the imperfect Formation

5. In order to form the imperfect
1.) Find the nous form of the verb
Nous parlons
Nous finissons
Nous tordons

6. Chop off the ons
Parl
finiss
Tord

7. Endings
Ais
Ait
ions
iez
aient

8. How do you use it? ( this is new)
The imperfect and the passe compose mean basically the same thing.

9. The passe compose J’ai regardé/ je suis descendu (e)
This is used for one time actions in the past.

10. The imperfect This is used for : Progressive actions
emotion/ background

11. What’s a progressive action?
I was reading when Marc came down the stairs.
First of all, the word « quand » means when.
The first verb (before the quand/ when) was happening. This is imperfect.
The second verb interrupted the action. This is passé composé.
Je lisais quand Marc est descendu.

12. Examples: J’étudiais quand Marc a frappé la porte.
(was going on) (he hit it once)
Je mangeais quand Justin a parlé
(was going on) (he spoke once)

13. The second usage:
These are the verbs that are emotion/ background. THESE WILL ALWAYS BE IMPERFECT
être
porter
aimer

14. If you see something like:
Il fait beau/ il fait mauvais
That’s referring to weather and will always be imperfect as well.

15. Mult choice
Decide whether past or imperfect fits in the blank

16. Essay
On a lined sheet of paper, Write an essay of 5 sentences describing a trip you have taken. All of the verbs should be either in the past or imperfect tense. You decide (this is why we are doing this).