Grammar

Music: Francis Cabrel’s “Octobre” and the Futur Simple

June 10, 2010
By Rachel
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You can use any French song to create some sort of grammar, vocabulary, or culture lesson. The song “Octobre” by Francis Cabrel lends itself particularly well to a review of the futur simple.  About half of the lines of the text contain a verb in the future, and many of them are irregular. The...Read more »

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Daudet’s La Dernière classe

June 10, 2010
By Rachel
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Digging through some course materials that have been handed down to me, I came across Alphonse Daudet’s short story La Dernière classe. As is the case with most any short story from the 19th century, this is a great text to use to identify the common literary uses of the past tense (imparfait vs....Read more »

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