1. Warm up Without looking on your note, use “DR & MRS VANDERTRAMP” to help you find the 16 verbs and their past participles.

2. To ask for information: A quelle heure est-ce que le train (le car) pour blois part? What time does the train (the bus) for…leave. To respond: A 14h 40 De quel quai? ( from which platform) Respond: Du quai 5 A quelle heure est-ce que vous ouvrez (fermer)? What time you open (close)? Respond: A 10h ( à 18h)

3. To ask for prices: Combien coûte un aller-retour? How much is a round-trip ticket? Combien coûte un aller simple? How much is a one-way ticket? C’est combien, l’entrée? How much is the entrance fee? To ask for what you want: Je voudrais un aller-retour. I’d like a round-trip. Un aller-simple, s’il vous plait. A one-way ticket, please. Trois tickets, s’il vous plait. Three tickets, please. Handouts!!

4. Changing Gears **A skit** * A train’s schedule written on board and the names of two towns… * The departure and the arrival times, the Platform (le quais) of the train… *The price of the ticket one way (aller-simple) or a round trip ticket (aller-retour),… *A ticket booth…two students…one plays a ticket agent and the other a tourist traveling,… then short conversation between them resulting to the tourist buying a ticket…

5. **Note de grammaire: to ask question formally, use question word(s) followed by est-ce que; A quelle heure est-ce que le train arrive? ** To ask the question informally, put the question word(s) at the end of theof the question: Le train arrive à quelle heure? * Do p. 179, Act. 9-19 (gram. Suppl.)

6. Note grammaire: The verb ouvrir (to open) ends in –ir, but it’s conjugated as a regular verb-er verb. Drop the ir and add the ending –e, -es, -e, -ons, -ez, -ent. J’ouvre, tu ouvres, il/elle ouvre, nous ouvrons, vous ouvrez, ils/elles ouvrent. Do # 179, Act. 11 Language note: rouvrir is a form of the verb ouvrir with the prefix re-, meaning again. But because ouvrir start with vowel, the –e is dropped. But we have réecrire, rhabiller, rasseoir, rassurer, réinventer.