1. Le ç on 5 Dialogue B Explication du vocabulaire et des expressions

2. ► Pâques = Easter ► Les vacances de Pâques = Easter holidays (In France, the Easter vacation for school children lasts about one week)

3. ► dans la famille de Nathalie – with Nathalie’s family ► C’est par l à – It ’ s over there - L à = there/over there - Ici = here/over here

4. ► Traverse = cross (traverser = to cross) ► La Seine = one of France’s biggest rivers, that runs through Paris and up to Normandie. ► Prends = take (prendre = to take) ► La premi è re = the first (f) - Le premier = the first (m) eg. Le premier ministre - Route (f) = road

5. Prendre = to take ► Jeprends ► Tuprends ► Il/elleprend ► Nousprenons ► Vous prenez ► Ils/ellesprennent

6. Common expressions with prendre ► Prendre des vacances = to take a vacation ► Prendre une douche = to take a shower ► Prendre son temps = to take one’s time ► Prendre le bus/le train/l’avion/le bâteau ► Prendre du poids = to gain weight

7. Notice that ‘traverse’ and ‘prends’ have no pronoun (je/tu/il etc..) before them ► This is because the verbs traverser and prendre have been conjugated in a special form called l’imp é ratif ► We use l ’ imp é ratif when we are telling someone to do something or giving an order.

8. Verbs that are commonly used with l’imp é ratif ► Faire ► Aller ► Venir ► Entrer ► Sortir ► Manger ► Arrêter (to stop) ► Prendre ► Mettre (to put) ► Écouter ► Regarder ► Écrire

9. Spot l’imp é ratif ► Now that you know what l’imp é ratif looks like, spot all the imp é ratif verbs in dialogues A and B. ► Write them down below your answers to the questions about dialogue B in your dossier 5. ► CLUE = 1 in dialogue A and 5 in dialogue B

10. How does l’imperatif work? ► P. 15 and 16 of dossier 5 show you how to form l’imp é ratif. ► Read through the explanation and be ready to summarise the explanation orally in class next week.

11. Back to Dialogue B

12. ► O ù on va? – another way of asking “ O ù est- ce qu ’ on va? ” “ On ” can mean “ one ” (a person in general) or “ us ”, and is conjugated like ‘ il/elle ’. But you will learn more about it in sec 2.

13. Claude Monet (1840-1926) ► Un peintre = a painter ► Une peinture = a painting ► Impressioniste = impressionist (a painter who paints in the impressionist style)impressionist

14. The real “bassin des nymphéas” behind Monet’s house in Giverny, Normandie. Célèbre (adj) – famous Bassin (m) – lake/pool Les nymphéas - waterlilies Which inspired this painting by Monet.

15. ► Parking (m) = carpark ► Car (m) =coach/bus