Reading Guide

1. Reading Guide Lire en français !

2. Let’s try to read some French!What are your observations? L’AIT est un institut de technologie international dont la mission est de former des professionnels très qualifiés qui joueront un grand rôle dans le développement de la région Asie-Pacifique et de son intégration dans l'économie globale.

3. What are your observations?ACCENTS / ENDINGS L’AIT est un institut de technologie international dont la mission est de former des professionnels très qualifiés qui joueront un grand rôle dans le développement de la région Asie-Pacifique et de son intégration dans l'économie globale.

4. Vocabularygrammatical words L’AIT est un institut de technologie international dont la mission est de former des professionnels très qualifiés qui jouerontun grand rôle dans le développement de la région Asie- Pacifique et de son intégration dansl'économie globale.

5. Can you guess the meaning of:

6. Answer

7. Your teacher’s advice Try to focus on mastering grammatical words because they are the most frequent words in the language and provide the link between the vocabulary words. Due to their complexity, you need a teacher to guide you. Don’t focus too much on vocabulary words because those words can be easily find in dictionaries. You don’t need a teacher to increase your vocabulary.

8. French LanguageLe français

9. French pronunciation

10. Some differences with English 1.Intonationor word stressdoesn’t matter 2.Length of vowels doesn’t matter 3.French vowelsmakes no voice variation 4.Frenchconsonantsare harder

11. Final consonants are silent

12. Except –r , –l and sometimes -s

13. Final –e is silentIt is there to pronounce the final consonant

14. VOWELS

15. 6 vowels from the alphabet A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

16. 5 basic sounds

17. You can have 2 vowels following each other;Pronounce them both.

18. The 5 basic vowels can go through 3types of transformations

19. 1st transformationIf you add i or u to a/e/o you get a new sound

20. 2nd transformationadd accents on top of the vowel

21. 2nd transformationadd accents on top of the vowel Accents are not apostrophe!

22. Summery1 sound vowels

23. Summery2 sounds vowels

24. Summery1 sound but ≠ forms

25. 3rd transformationadd n/m after the vowel to get a «nose sound»

26. i + nasal

27. Consonants

28. Alphabet (letters similar to English) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

29. Alphabet(letters with the sound -é) A BCD E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U VW X Y Z

30. Alphabet(letters with the sound -a) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

31. Alphabet(letters with the sound -i) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XY Z

32. Alphabet(letters with the sound -u) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

33. Alphabet(others) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

34. ADN - AIT – BMW - CIA CDRom - CV - DVD - VIH ONG – OGM – QI - SOS TVA – USA – VHS – OTAN RSVP – IBM - TIC – ISO http – .fr - .be - .ca Acronymes et sigles

35. Spelling names : AcommeAnimal

36. Consonants with 2 sounds

37. H is silent Hôpital Hôtel Humble Harmonie

38. Other specific letters

39. Rare consonants K W X Y Z

40. French likes to haveDouble consonants + e ette - esse – elle – enne - erre trompette– cigarette – toilette omelette – baguette–squelette presse– adresse-femelle guerre – terre-antenne- italienne

41. 2 phenomenon in front of a vowel - Liaison (links) - Apostrophe

42. Liaisons(sound link)In front of a word starting by a vowel excellent / article • excellent_article Read: excellen-tar-ticle

43. Apostrophe(to replace final -e) Gramatical words le / je / de / te / me / que drop their -e in front of a vowel je+ arrive = j’arrive (I arrive) le + éléphant = l’éléphant (the elephant) de + Italie = d’Italie (from Italy)