LES QUESTIONS DU 5E

1. LES QUESTIONS DU 5E

2. How long will the exam be? • 7th grade Exam is on Thursday, June 4 from 8:15 to 10:00. • That’s 1 hour and 45 minutes • 105 minutes

3. When do you use “voici” “voilà” & “ce sont”? FIRST UNDERSTAND THE MEANING. • voici = here is • voilà = there is or “ta da!” • ce sont = these are… those are… • Voici Cecile. • Voilà la maison de mon pere. • Voilà Guillaume! Enfin! • Qui est-ce? Ce sont les frères de ma mère.

4. geler this word has 2 syllables. je gèle nous gelons tu gèles vous gelez elle gèle ils gelent appeler this word has 3 syllables. j’appelle nous appelons tu appelles vous appelez elle appelle ils appellent How do you know which conjugation for “-ELER” verbs to use.

5. Will we need to know which article to put in front of a country, city or town? OUI. C’est facile. le = masculine countries are like masculine nouns. They don’t usually end in “e”. Le Maroc. • la = feminine countries are like feminine common nouns. They usually end in “e”. La France • l’ = Countries which begin with vowels tend to be feminine. • THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS!!!! Le Bélgique

6. Will we need to know which article to put in front of a country, city or town? You need to know this because you’ll have to know when to say: du or de in Je viens du Bresil. Je viens de France. Je viens des Etats-Unis

7. Will we need to know which article to put in front of a country, city or town? And you need to know this because you’ll have to know when to say: en, au or aux in J’habite au Bresil. J’habite en France. J’habite aux Etats-Unis

8. Now, for cities and towns, all you need to remember is de Je viens de Buffalo. Je viens de Paris. Je suis de Jacmel. Je suis d’ Avignon. Or, à: J’habite à Buffalo. J’habite à Paris. J’habite à Jacmel. J’habite à Avignon. Will we need to know which article to put in front of a country, city or town?

9. Will questions about the movie be on the test? • The movies provide content for the test, but you will not be asked to remember facts learned in the movies. • The final exam evaluates French vocabulary and grammar knowledge.

10. Is it all multiple choice? oui.

11. What material should we know for the exam? • From Grammaire progressive: niveau debutant You must know Units 1-5. • In 8th grade we will finish unit 6 and you will start a new workbook: La Grammaire progressive: niveau intermediaire

12. What material should we know for the exam? • From Vocabulaire progressive: niveau debutant You have been presented and tested on units 1-26. (Maddie, Andrew G., RJ, Caroline, and Kristen: I know you didn’t get tested on 1-20, but GP covered a lot of this vocabulary). To facilitate your studying, I would simply review the terms that appear in Trimester exams 1 and 2.

13. What is the layout of the exam? • 100 multiple choice items.

14. How long is it? • 8 pages.

15. What verbs and which conjugations? • Verbs 1-46 • avoir to acheter on your list.

16. What verbs and which conjugations? • Irregular verbs. • Regular verbs. • Stem-changing verbs. • Reflexive verbs.

17. Any vocabulary? • When you read and write you are using French vocabulary all the time. So yes. There is vocabulary.

18. Any vocabulary? • From Vocabulaire progressive: niveau debutant • You have been presented and tested on units 1-26. (Maddie, Andrew G., RJ, Caroline, and Kristen: I know you didn’t get tested on 1-20, but GP covered a lot of this vocabulary). • To facilitate your studying, I would simply review the terms that appear in Trimester exams 1 and 2.

19. Will the questions about ourselves be basically what the profile is but oral? • oui. • Comment t’appelles-tu? • Quel age as-tu? • C’est quand ton anniversaire? • Ou est-ce que tu habites? • Quel est ton plat prefere? • Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire?

20. Will the profile we are writing about a movie we have seen in the past? • Non. • Remember, profiles are about a character in a movie. • I will be showing you the movie on June 2. You will have to go home and write your profile on a person. Email your profile on the character to me before or on June 4th. No late profiles will be accepted.

21. How will the profile be graded? • The grade you receive on the profile will be it’s own grade on the scale of 100. The profile grade will be averaged with the multiple choice portion of the exam. • 15% of your exam grade is averaged into your final grade for the year.

22. How will the final profile be graded? • This will be the first part of your exam. Remember the honor code, you may not share information. • You may use your own work to help you in writing this profile, grammaire progressive and vocabulaire progressif. Your dictionary should not be used for this portion. Points will be deducted if words not in your GP or VP are used.

23. What is the regular imparfait? • You do not need to know the imparfait for the exam. • The imparfait is a way to express the past in French. At our level, we tend to see it when we read: J’étais triste.

24. For the se verbs that are on the sheet, are those on the only sheet? • oui.

25. Will the profile be like what we did last week? • oui.

26. So whatever has been on the trimester exam is fair game? • oui.

27. So, what do we need to know? • Everything on Trimester exam 1 and 2 • GP Units 4 & 5.

28. Do we have to know any VP vocab? If so, what units? • oui. • VP 1-26 • Basically, what is on the trimester 1 & 2 exams.

29. What units of GP do we have to know? • GP units 1-5 • Basically, what you had on your quizzes.

30. In the oral component will you ask us questions? • oui. • oui. • Comment t’appelles-tu? • Quel age as-tu? • C’est quand ton anniversaire? • Ou est-ce que tu habites? • Quel est ton plat préféré? • Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire?

31. From what movie will the character profile be written? • No Reservations: Paris.

32. Will the profile have to be as detailed as our personal profile? • Oui.

33. How long is the exam? How long will it take us? • 100 multiple choice • 8 pages • You will have 105 minutes to complete it.

34. How long is the writing and the oral? • Your profile needs to contain all the sentences used to build a profile. • 128 words minimum. • Oral exam: 3 minutes.

35. When do you use: voici, voilà, il y a, c’est, ce sont, ce, cet, cette or ces. • First, I recommend you understand what each term means in English.

36. When do you use: voici, voilà, il y a, c’est, ce sont, ce, cet, cette or ces.

37. On the things to know sheet, there is not GP from trimester 3, do we not have to know that, but just the verbs and conjugation? • All the quizzes you have taken this term are included in the final exam. That includes information from GP Unit 3, 4 and 5.

38. When do you use: voici, voilà, il y a, c’est, ce sont, ce, cet, cette or ces.

39. When do you use: de words?

40. When do you use: de words?

41. What are the future tenses for all the verbs? • In this class, we have learned to form the future by conjugating the verb “aller” in the present and writing the main verb in the infinitive. • Je vais réussir à l’examen.

42. How do you make questions? • Here is a statement: • Tu vas au Maroc. • How do you turn it into a question? • Tu vas au Maroc? • Est-ce que tu vas au Maroc? • Vas-tu au Maroc?

43. What is “Qu’est-ce que c’est?” and where do I put it? • Qu’est-ce que c’est= What is it? It’s a question. You use it to ask what something is or what something means.

44. When do you use the pronom tonique?

45. When do you use the pronom tonique?

46. What is the difference between “des” used with un or une and “des” used with “du” & “de la” This is an excellent question. The answer resides in the meaning: des: the plural form of un or une = SOME. J’ai des chaussures. des: the plural form of “du” or “de la” = of, from, of the, from the, or some. Je viens des Pays Bas. Je veux des bonbons.

47. When do I use “à”? à = at, in, at the, to the

48. When do you use: àwords?

49. When do you use the possessive?

50. How do you answer a question? 1. Understand the question. Comment t’appelles-tu? 2. Identify the verb. Comment t’appelles-tu? 3. Answer the question with the verb in a complete sentence. Conjugate properly. Je m’appelle Cécile.