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Contents

Introduction

I

1   Definite articles · Family

2   Indefinite articles · Around the house

3   J’ai and je veux · Animals

4   Il y a · The classroom

5   Subject pronouns · Common -er verbs · Regular -er verbs · Days of the week

RÉVISION 1 LEÇONS 1–5

II

6   Clothing · -Er bverb endings

7   -Ir verbs · Food and beverages

8   -Ir verb endings · Common -ir verbs

9   Adjectives · Colors · Likes and dislikes

10   Descriptive adjectives · More than

RÉVISION 2 LEÇONS 6–10

III

11   Regular -re verbs · Common -re verbs

12   Asking questions · Interrogatives

13   The verb être · Occupations

14   Possessive adjectives · Using the verb être

15   The verb avoir · Inside the house

RÉVISION 3 LEÇONS 11–15

IV

16   BAGS adjectives · Locations

17   Moods and emotions

18   Comment ça va? · Health and fitness · Contractions with à

19   Vouloir · More clothes

20   Numbers · Age · Expressions with avoir

RÉVISION 4 LEÇONS 16–20

V

21   Faire · Weather · Seasons

22   Expressions with faire · Sports · Games · Music · Contractions with de

23   Telling time

24   Aller · Transportation

25   Dire · Écrire · Lire · Things to tell, write, and read

RÉVISION 5 LEÇONS 21–25

VI

26   Pouvoir · Adverbs

27   Devoir · Two-verb constructions · Adverbs of time

28   Two-verb questions · More food

29   Comparative adverbs and adjectives · Comparisons

30   Prepositions + verb · Il faut · More things in the house

RÉVISION 6 LEÇONS 26–30

VII

31   Demonstrative adjectives · Common stem-changing -er verbs · Expressions of time

32   Jeter · Appeler · The forms of vieux, beau, nouveau · Friends

33   -Er verbs with e →è stem change · Prepositions: location of things and people

34   -Er verbs with é →è stem change · More prepositions (place, time, and people) · Parts of the day

35   -Er verbs with y →i stem change · Near future: aller + infinitive · Near past: venir de + infinitive

RÉVISION 7 LEÇONS 31–35

VIII

36   Direct object pronouns · Gifts

37   Savoir · Hobbies · Ne… pas

38   Connaître · The neighborhood · Countries and states

39   Savoir and connaître

40   Using de and à plus noun · Adverbs of negation

RÉVISION 8 LEÇONS 36–40

IX

41   Irregular -ir verbs: sentir, sortir, partir, dormir · Adverbial phrases

42   Reflexive pronouns · Reflexive verbs · Parts of the body · Feelings

43   Reflexive -er verbs · Toiletries

44   Venir · Se souvenir · The object pronoun en

45   Offrir · Personal object pronouns: me, te, nous, vous, lui, leur

RÉVISION 9 LEÇONS 41–45

X

46   The family of prendre · Languages · Stress pronouns · Prepositional phrases

47   Near future · Expressions of future time · The pronoun y · Prepositions

48   Near past · Expressions of past time

49   Passé composé with avoir

50   Passé composé with être · Vacation locales

RÉVISION 10 LEÇONS 46–50

Answer key

Fun facts translations

Introduction

Congratulations! You have chosen Practice Makes Perfect: Basic French for your first year of French language learning.

This highly useful book is well suited for middle or high school French students to accompany a first-year textbook, or as a review book at the end of a first year or beginning second-year French course. It can also be used as a supplement to a face-to-face or online French course. Whatever your situation, you will be happy to own this book to practice basic first-year vocabulary, verb tenses, and sentence structures.

As vocabulary acquisition is an ongoing process dictated by student interest, it is important to understand that the focus of this basic book is limited to high frequency vocabulary. How well students will be able to venture into thematic and contextualized reading materials depends on how well they have mastered the essential structures and concepts introduced in this book.

For the most part, basic grammar is presented in user-friendly charts as preparation for the material in the exercises. The tenses practiced in this book are the present, the near future, the near past, and the passé composé. We find this to be ample material for a first-year or a beginning second-year middle or high school student. Adjectives, prepositions, and object pronouns presented in their lexical and grammatical functions are also important parts of this book.

With Basic French learning French is made easy because the material is presented in simple charts. It remains user friendly while building from very simple to more complex. In addition, the material offers many opportunities to reinforce and review basic grammatical concepts, while recycling and expanding on everyday words and phrases.

The ten units and fifty lessons in this book are presented in a simple and progressive format designed to help students learn, review, and retain knowledge of basic vocabulary and grammatical structures. Each set of five chapters in a unit is followed by a review section. The numerous exercises in the chapters and review sections are accompanied by an Answer Key at the end of the book. And this Premium Second Edition offers streaming audio recordings of the answers to numerous exercises, allowing you to compare your responses and pronunciation against native speakers.

For pleasure reading, we have included Fun Facts throughout the book; try to read them for fun and understand them on your own. So that you may check how much and how well you understood, they are translated in the Answer Key.

It is time to start the adventure! Bonne chance et bon voyage!

• I •

LEÇON 1   Definite articles · Family

LEÇON 2   Indefinite articles · Around the house

LEÇON 3   J’ai and je veux · Animals

LEÇON 4   Il y a · The classroom

LEÇON 5   Subject pronouns · Common -er verbs · Regular -er verbs · Days of the week

RÉVISION 1   Leçons 1–5

Grammar

Definite articles

Indefinite articles

J’ai and je veux

Il y a and il n’y a pas

Subject pronouns

Conjugation of regular -er verbs

Vocabulary

Family members

Around the house

Animals

The classroom

A few -er verbs

Days of the week

Fun facts

Famous families

Famous houses

Animals in comic books and storybooks

The story of Babar

La télévision

The days of the week

• 1 •    Definite articles Family

Definite articles

NOTEZ     The definite article appears more frequently in French than in English before a noun, for example, in abstractions and generalizations as in the following sentences.

VOCABULAIRE

Les membres de la famille (Family members)

EXERCICE

1.1

Traduisez! (Translate!)

1. the father ___________________

2. the mother ___________________

3. the parents ___________________

4. the fathers ___________________

5. the mothers ___________________

6. the boy ___________________

7. the girl ___________________

8. the boys ___________________

9. the girls ___________________

10. the son ___________________

11. the daughters ___________________

12. the brothers ___________________

13. the grandmother ___________________

14. the cousins (f.) ___________________

15. the grandson ___________________

16. the granddaughter ___________________

17. the niece ___________________

18. the nephew ___________________

19. the stepfather ___________________

20. the stepmother ___________________

EXERCICE

1.2

Les familles célèbres! (Famous families!) Match the famous person on the left with the correct family relationship on the right.

1. _______ Eunice Kennedy Shriver et Arnold Schwarzenegger a. les frères

2. _______ Michelle et Barack Obama b. les sœurs

3. _______ Donny et Marie Osmond c. la belle-mère et le beau-fils

4. _______ Kelly et Ozzie Osbourne d. le mari et la femme

5. _______ Alec et William Baldwin e. la fille et le père

6. _______ Kirk et Michael Douglas f. le frère et la sœur

7. _______ Warren Beatty et Shirley MacLaine g. le père et le fils

8. _______ Venus et Serena Williams

VOCABULAIRE

Everyday words

EXERCICE

1.3

Écrivez! (Write!) In this exercise, use the familiar your (ton, ta, tes) throughout.

1. My uncle Georges is the brother of my mother.

______________________________________________________________

2. Your daughter is my cousin.

______________________________________________________________

3. My grandfather is your uncle.

______________________________________________________________

4. My grandmother is from France.

______________________________________________________________

5. Your brother is my cousin.

______________________________________________________________

6. Your parents are my grandparents.

______________________________________________________________

7. Your sister is my stepmother.

______________________________________________________________

8. My father is your nephew.

______________________________________________________________

9. Your sisters are my aunts.

______________________________________________________________

10. Lili is the niece of my grandfather Julius.

______________________________________________________________

Faits divers (Fun facts)

Les familles célèbres (Famous families)

   Les filles de Barack Obama sont Sasha et Malia.

   Bill Ford est l’arrière-petit-fils de Henry Ford.

   Jennifer Lopez est la femme de Marc Anthony.

   Liza Minnelli est la fille de Judy Garland.

   Brad Pitt est le copain d’Angelina Jolie.

• 2 •    Indefinite articles Around the