1. Do Now:
Give me 3 things you used to do.

2. L’imparfait Usage
Day 1

3. 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.

4. the imperfect/ Passe compose Formation

5. Imperfect formation - find the nous form ONLY IRREGULAR:
Chop of the ons être - ÉT
endings:
ais ions
ais iez
ait aient

6. 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

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

8. The imperfect
This is used for :
Day 1: background information

9. 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

10. What about weather? Weather expressions will always be imperfect.
What are they?
Il pleuvait - it was raining ( this is already in imperfect)

11. 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

12. More:
faire de la grêle : to hail
geler: to freeze
faire mal: to be bad out
neiger: to snow
être nuageux : to be cloudy