1. Adverbs

2. Objective
Students will be able to form adverbs from a given adjective and use them to describe a past action.
Students will be able to describe how they did something.

3. Using the imperfect

4. We reviewed how to form the imperfect
Nous form
Chop off the ons
Endings: axis,ais,ait, ions, iez, aient

5. How so we use it
Emotions/ background
Progressive actions

6. Progressive actions
What was in the process of happening when (Quand) the action took place
Je __________ (imperfect) Quand il ____________ (passé compose)
On etudiait Quand Chris a frappe.

7. Emotions/ background/ descriptions
There are verbs that will never be in the past tense
Etre
Aimer
Porter

8. The last verb you need to know:
Faire beau/ faire mauvais
These have to do with weather, so they will always be imperfect

9. Adverbs
In english, an adverb is a word that describes an action. In most cases, it ends in « ly. »
I run really fast
He reads absolutely well.

10. How do you form them in French?
You will see three kinds of adjectives:
Ones that end in consonants - « actif »
ones that end in vowels (a,e,i,o,u)
ones that end in -ant or -ent

11. The first kind:
if the adjective ends in a consonant (anything except a,e,i,o,u), find the feminine form.
How do you find the feminine form? Let’s review.

12. Feminine adjectives: There are regular ones - brun-) brune
There are ones that end in -eux , which become « euse » Heureux - heureuse
There are ones that end in f, which become ve
actif- active
There are ones that end in c, which become che
blanc -) blanche

13. Find the feminine forms of these adjectives:
actif
franc
malheureux
bleu

14. Once you have the feminine form, making an adverb is simple
Just add an -ment to it
franc- franche - franchement
actif - active - activement
malheureux - malheureuse - malheureusement

15. If the adjective ends with a vowel (a,e,i,o,u), simply
place -ment at the end
absolu - absolument
vrai - vraiment

16. if the adjective ends in -ant or -ent
change the ending to -amment or -emment
constant- constamment
courant - couramment
différent - différemment
évident -évidemment

17. New!!!! Irregular adjectives
Bon - the adverb is bien
gentil - the adverb is géntiment
mauvais - the adverb is mal

18. Adverbs of frequency jamais - never parfois - sometimes
rarement - rarely
souvent - often
de temps en temps - from time to time
en général - in general
quelquefois - sometimes