4 Limparfait et le passé composé Les normes: –Communications 1.2: Understanding the written and spoken language –Comparisons 4.1: Understanding language.

3 Limparfait: les emplois Les normes: –Communication 1.2: Understanding the written and spoken language –Comparisons 4.1: Understanding the nature of language.
Passé Compose vs. Imparfait
Passé Composé vs. LImparfait Specific Actions Specific Time in the past Equivalent to the English ed ending on verbs Ongoing actions or continuous actions.
Limparfait The imperfect The Other Past Tense Forms.
L’imparfait.
L’imparfait Par Mme. Cook.
Using the imperfect to tell what you used to do or used to be like when you were younger Français 3 Mademoiselle Black Lycée Eastridge.
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By Osias Pierre Richard. To form the imperfect of a French verb, drop the – ons ending of the present-tense nous for me and add the appropriate ending:
Revision: L’imparfait
Qu’est-ce que tu faisais quand tu étais jeune?
The past isnt what it used to be. Limparfait est… a past tense Usually repetative actions Does NOT mean the same as the passé composé Utilisez limparfait.
Describes a previous habit or a previous state of being.
3 L’imparfait Les normes: Communication 1.2 Comparisons 4.1 -
2 L’imparfait Les normes: Communication 1.2 Comparisons 4.1 -
Perfect tense with ÊTRE. When do you use the perfect tense with être?  The perfect tense with être is also used to describe an action in the past which.
On va… 1. lire et comprendre un texte sur le camping. 2. réviser la différence entre le passé composé et l’imparfait. 3. parler de nos habitudes de l’enfance.
French Hammer the Grammar Aim: to be confident using the present tense To formulate accurate sentences using the present tense of …ir / …re/ …er verbs.
Notes les 5-6 juin Le futur simple.
A. La construction si + imparfait p. 308
A L’imparfait: formation pp In French, as in English, people use different tenses to talk about the past. • The most common past tense is the.
Page 198. USE: The imparfait (imperfect) tense tells how things were or what used to happen repeatedly in the past.
Les verbes en -er. –er 5000 –er verbs !!!  They are called REGULAR verbs because about 5000 verbs have the same endings.  It’s a good idea to learn.
Using the French past tenses. Quick Review: A compound tense, having two parts Uses: describes EVENTS- or tells you “what happened in the story” FFirst.
Le plus-que-parfait 1.The plus-que-parfait is formed by using the imperfect tense of the helping verb avoir or être and the past participle. Remember that.
Le passé composé The perfect tense Eg: J’ai mangé une pizza I have eaten/ate a pizza.
L’Imparfait Qu’est-ce que c’est que l’Imparfait? The imperfect is a tense that we use to talk about things in the past…
French 101 Important Verbs. The most important French verbs – avoir (to have), être (to be), and faire (to do/make) They are used in some of the ways.
Quand j’étais petite….. Quand j’étais petite, je jouais avec les Barbies. je jouais avec mon amie Kristin. je jouais avec mon Game Boy. je jouais “docteur”
French Verb Conjugation J’ai Vous êtes Ils finissent Nous commençons on vend Elles font Il va elle vient Puis-je Vous voulez.
Le Passé Composé et L’Imparfait
L’imparfait Formation et Utilisation
L’imparfait the imperfect.
Imparfait vs. Passé composé
L’Imparfait.
 PASS É MEANS PAST TENSE  IMPARFAIT MEANS IMPERFECT  PASSÉ IS FOR WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A SHORT DURATION OF A TIME (PASSÉ EST POUR UNE COURTE DURÉE)
Unité 6 La grammaire. Ouvrir – to open Ouvrir is an irregular ir verb but is conjugated like a regular er verb. j’ouvre nous ouvrons tu ouvresvous ouvrez.
L’imparfait des verbes avoir et être Chapitre 6 Madame Brown.
A parler parl- je parle -e parles tu -es parle il/elle/on -e parlons
 I went to the movies often as a child.  She was wearing a red dress.  He was eight years old.  It was raining yesterday.  Yesterday I went to the.
The Imperfect Tense.
L’imparfait/imperfect:. The imperfect is another past tense which is used in three different circumstances: 1)Descriptions in the past:  Descriptions.
L’imparfait vs. Le passé composé
Imparfait French 3. IMPARFAIT Imparfait also expresses past actions – Things you USED to do – More than once or over a period of time To form the imparfait.
Imparfait Emily Swann. Uses of imparfait -used as a past tense in french. -used to express actions and situations that: -lasted for an intermediate amount.
Français I – Leçon 6A Structures demonstrative adjectives passé composé with avoir.
Une Presentation de Mlle Reynolds Quand j’étais petite…
Notes le premier mars L’imparfait et le passé composé ensemble We can use the passé composé and the imparfait (imperfect) together to talk about the past.
Français I – Leçon 7B Structures
Observez What is the imperfect tense? L’imparfait is the tense used to DESCRIBE past events. It will translate in the following ways: was/were doing.
LES TEMPS PASSÉS IMPARFAITet PASSÉ COMPOSÉ Comment les utiliser?
Le passé composé This is a frequently used past tense. It helps convey messages about past events which took place at a precise moment in time and were.
© and ® 2011 Vista Higher Learning, Inc.7B.2-1 Point de départ You’ve learned how the passé composé can express past actions. Now you’ll learn another.
© and ® 2011 Vista Higher Learning, Inc.3B.2-1 Point de départ The conditional expresses what you would do or what would happen under certain circumstances.
L’imparfait/imperfect:. The imperfect is another past tense which is used in three different circumstances: 1)Descriptions in the past:  Descriptions.
L’imparfait Uses and formation. A. In French and in English, people use different tenses to talk about the past.  The most common past tense is the PASSE.
The conditional is used to describe what people WOULD DO, what WOULD HAPPEN if a certain condition were to be met. It is translated by would in English.
L’Imparfait The imperfect tense. formation Drop the -ons of the Nous form, present tense, to get stem Add the imparfait endings –Nous parlons –Parl--
Do now: 1/27 Vrai ou faux? 1.You use the « nous » form of the present tense to conjugate the imparfait. 2.The je and il form endings in the imparfait are.
L’imparfait Français II H – Unité Préliminaire A Structures.
Les endroits I can talk about places.
DO NOW: CONJUGATE IN THE PRESENT 1.Nous _______ (finir) nos devoirs. 2.Nous ______ (répondre) aux s. 3.Nous _____ (parler) ensemble. 4.Nous ______.
The imparfait can be translated several ways into English.
Français II H – Unité Préliminaire A Structures