Unit 2Le Jour et La Date

Le Jour et La Date

Likes and Dislikes• Likes – “aimer”

• Asking about likes

• Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire?

• Est-ce que tu aimes…?

• Expressing likes

• J’aime…

• Use with infinitives

• Danser

• Écrire

• Travailler

• Nager

• Dislikes – “ne…pas”

• Sandwich the verb “aimer”

• Translates as “not”

• Add “du tout” to make it stronger

• “ne” changes to “n’” before a vowel

Je n’aime pas travailler.

J’aime danser.

Articles• Definite articles

• Refer to specific objects

• Translate as “the” in English

• Indefinite articles

• Refer to objects in general

• Translate as “a,” or “an” in English

• Articles in French must agree in gender and

number with the nouns they modify

• Definite and indefinite articles can be used

interchangeably

• Examples:

• le/un monsieur – the man/a man

• la/une dame – the woman/a woman

• l’/un enfant – the child/a child

• les/des amis – the friends/some friends

Definite Articles

le masculine singular

la feminine singular

l’ elision of le or la; occurs before a

noun that begins with a vowel;

singular

les plural; both masculine and

feminine

Indefinite Articles

un masculine singular

une feminine singular

des plural; both masculine and

feminine

Subject Pronouns

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular Plural

Includes the self

Speaks directly to

someone

Looks in from

the outside

English

I

you

he, she, it

nous

we

they

you

je

tu

il, elle, on

vous

French

ils, elles

• Pronouns are words that take the

place of nouns.

• Like nouns, pronouns can be

subjects or objects.

• Subjects perform the action of a

sentence.

• Objects receive the action of a

sentence

While it may seem logical, you shouldn’t translate the

French pronoun “on” as “it.” In English, the pronoun “it” is

gender neutral and refers to objects. While also gender

neutral, the pronoun “on” refers to people. It is often used

to make general statements in the place of the English

pronoun “we.” For now, think of it as “someone,” so you

remember that it is singular.

Pronunciation• Final consonants – in general, final consonants are silent

Ex. les messieurs

les dames

• Liaison – a link of sounds between a word ending in a

consonant and another word beginning with a vowel

Ex. les amis

les enfants

• Elision – the omission of a vowel at the end of a word before

another word beginning with a vowel sound

Ex. je n’aime pas…

j’habite…