Passé Composé vs. Imparfait

1. Passé Composé vs. Imparfait • Describing past events… • Let’s review the conjugations…choose a different subject (je, tu, il/elle/on, nous, vous, ils/elles) • Write each verb on your notecard in the passé composé and the imparfait. • SORTEZ LES NOTES!

2. Passé Composé vs. Imparfait • Describingpastevents… • En anglais! Writeaboutyoureveninglastnightfor Halloween or a Halloween partyyouwent to or a past Halloween outing. Tellwhatyoudid and describe whatitwaslike…. Last night, I wenttrick-or-treatingwithmykids. Wewent to ourfriend’sneighborhood and itwasawesome! However, itwasreallyhot. Mykidswerewishingthattheypickedcostumesthatweren’tlong-sleeved. Theygot so muchcandy, and theywanted to eatall of it!But, I didnotallowthem to becauseitwasreally late. Itwas 9:00 whenwereturned home. Wewere so tired!!

3. Get your PhD in Imparfait! P H D

4. Progressive ActionsHabitual eventsDescription Get your PhD in Imparfait!

5. I was climbing. I fell. 1 Time Event Passé Composé Progressive Imparfait I was working. I finished.

6. He was looking at the firecracker... when it went off. 1 Time Event Passé Composé Progressive Imparfait until he met me! (Awe!) He was seeing a lot of women...

7. Habitual Actions/ Repeated Events Over and over and over… I used to do this. fall down and hurt myself skip stones on the lake work at McDo! I used to send text messages in class! click my pens in class while taking hard tests.

8. The Imparfait • There is not an exact equivalent of this tense in English. • Usually translated with the “was/were + verb-ing” or the “used to verb” tenses, but it can be others as well. • I was driving my car; We used to eat ice cream on Sundays; It was a cloudy day. -Represents an ongoing event in the past, something that is currently taking place in our story.

9. Passé Composé: Defined moments (i.e. on a timeline) I was born. I got an A on my imparfait exam in French. I got my uncle a fishing rod. I climbed Mount Everest.

10. The Passé Composé • You know how to form it, but what does it mean? • There is not an exact equivalent in English, but the closest is simple past • I ate; He read; She won; You understood. -Represents a one time event in the past, something that has both begun and ended in our story.

11. Cont’d • If you visualize a timeline, passé composé are the single dots on the timeline. They take place at a known time. • Imparfait are the long lines on our timeline. They last for a period of time and take place around our story, giving a description.

12. Comparing • ANY verb can be conjugated in both tenses, but it’s the meaning of each that has to do with what we want to say: • We drove to the movies. • We were driving to the movies. The sentences are identical, other than the verb tense. The 1st one is understood to be a single event, the 2nd one you are expecting to hear something more about what happened during the trip.

13. Eras of your life. Continuous Progressive Actions/ I used to have short hair. I used to go to Northeast Elementary I used to know a girl named Ruth I usedto playbasketball. I used to watch Barney every day.

14. Les Règles – Passé Composé ompleted past action (CPA) imited amount of time nterrupting action*** hange in mental state equence of events C L I C S

15. Pourquoi est-ce que ces descriptions sont en imparfait selon des catégories de OH WHAT A DEAL? J’étais sportif. Il pleuvait. Il était 4h55. J’avais froid. J’étais dans le jardin. J’étais décontracté et heureux dans l’eau. J’avais six ans. Ma soeur avait sept ans.

16. Cut and Paste PHYSICAL STATE EMOTION TIME AGE LOCATION APPEARANCE WEATHER PHYSICAL STATE Cut and Paste PHYSICAL STATE EMOTION AGE TIME LOCATION APPEARANCE WEATHER PHYSICAL STATE

17. Why are these descriptions imperfect due to criteria of OH WHAT A DEAL? Description I was athletic. WEATHER It was raining. TIME It was 4:55. PHYSICAL STATE I was cold. I was in the garden. LOCATION I wasrelaxed and happy. EMOTION I was six. My sister was seven. AGE

18. Choose the appropriateletter of the OH WHAT A DEAL criteria to use in determining the imperfect use withineach sentence. • ___ J’étais à l’école. • ___ Tu étais blonde. • ___ Il était 18h00. • ___ Mon amie était triste. • ___ Mes frères voulaient un chien. • ___ Il faisait chaud. • ___ Elle avait neuf ans. • ___ J’avais faim.

19. SOLUTIONChoose the appropriateletter of the DATE LAWS criteria to use in determining the imperfect use withineach sentence. • _L_ J’étais à l’école. • _D_ Tu étais blonde. • _T_ Il était 18h00. • _E_ Mon amie était triste. • _E_ Mes frères voulaient un chien. • _W_ Il faisait chaud. • _A_ Elle avait neuf ans. • _S_ J’avais faim.