French Homework Help

[Christine-Eriks]

Hi! Can someone please watch the 2 minute long French video and answer the questions? I really need some help!

http://www.lesmetiers.net/orientation/p1_195132/professeur-d-anglais

1. Pourquoi est-ce qu'elle a eu envi de devenir prof d'anglais?

2. Quel est l'un des responsabilités d'un prof d'après Mme Perier?

3. Où est-elle partie pour faire ses compétences en anglais?

4. Nommez trois choses qu'elle fait dans une journée typique.

5. Pourquoi dit-elle qu'il y a tant de répétition dans un cours de langue seconde?

6. Quelles sont deux avantages de ce métier, à l'avis de Mme Perier?

7. Dans son opinion, quelle est une qualité requise pour être un bon enseignant?

Thank you so much!

[Jackdaw33]

Tu dois, dear, not tu doit.

[ichkeria]

"Anyone who dares use the imperfect subjunctive is denounced for what he is, a pompous prat"

But if you ARE going to use it, get it right :-)
Not sure I agree entirely though: I will never forget hearing someone once use the subjunctive form of the verb s'en foutre - a memorable moment! If people will use it for that then they'll use it for anything ...

[Jackdaw33]

I have never heard anything but the imperative forms of foutre or its derivatives!!

[Retrochic]

Jackdaw -yes dear it was a typo -I don't need to copy paste Google translate so sometimes do typo's when typing in my mother tongue lol!

[Retrochic]

icheria -how did you get through the swear filter with the F word? You should get a badge lol! Someone on another thread couldn't even describe their female dog without getting the 'star' treatment

[Peter Pedant]

// Anyone who dares use the imperfect subjunctive is denounced for what he is, a pompous prat.//

Actually I cam across a decretal from the Min of education in 1908 saying no one need use it ( the imperf subjunctive ) anymore
A belgian who was teaching us French said he was unaware of it ( but he was also unaware of the future perfect and insisted the future would do under all circs )

am I gonna be the onlyone to help the poor gurl ?

[Peter Pedant]

3. Ou est-elle partie ... ?

I was expecting de Brighton ou de Hastings

mais je pense qu'ill etait 'je suis partie de l'universite '...

and 1 and 2 I couldnt get at all

[jourdain2]

Where I lived in 'France profonde' it was generally the case that a lot of the French natives never used any tenses but the present, perfect and future tense formed with 'aller'. To be honest, it was most of them. Made life easier for me! :)

[Jackdaw33]

Not sure that the simple future could replace the future perfect in all cases.
Although the present subjunctive is common in set phrases I have only once come across the imperfect, on an inscription in Bayeux war cemetery, which I at first did not recognise, thinking that they had made a typo, writing 'pussent' for 'puissent'.

[Peter Pedant]

O here it is
L'arrêté ministériel du 31 juillet 1900 (modifié par l'arrêté ministériel du 26 février 1901) indique3 :

« On tolérera le présent du subjonctif au lieu de l'imparfait dans les propositions subordonnées dépendant de propositions dont le verbe est au conditionnel. Exemple : il faudrait qu'il vienne ou qu'il vînt »

I cant help anymore with your French prep I'm afraid

It is becoming a jumble of syllables
( altho I quite liked; " I have invented a little sister scrombogulator"

[DaisyNonna]

Difficult enough to expect English speakers to use the subjunctive correctly

[Peter Pedant]

yeah

" If I wuzz you " drives me crazy ( altho I think it occurs in Dickens )

[Jackdaw33]

Quite right, Daisy. How many times have you heard people say 'if I was you' instead of the more correct 'if I were you'.

[Jackdaw33]

Another thing which fascinated me about French when I was a schoolboy was that the simple past historic was never used in speech, only in narrative writing. I can still remember the rubrics on my French O level paper (1964) - Translate the following passage into French. DO NOT USE the past historic.

[DaisyNonna]

Ever tried sorting out the Greek aorist?

[Jackdaw33]

Yes. When it came to distinguishing between a strong and a weak aorist I realised that I wasn't quite the clever linguist I thought I was.

[DaisyNonna]

Thankfully I have forgotten most of it
Oh to have had the subject choices available now!

[Jackdaw33]

I remember my French, my Latin and my Russian, but not my Greek, though I have no regrets about being made to study the classics.

[DaisyNonna]

Green with envy that my granddaughter is studying A level Archaeology
Very lucky to have been in one of very few schools offering A level Mediaeval History, (English and European)

[Christine-Eriks]

I know I need to learn it myself, but when others who speak fluent French can't understand her I'd like some help. I have a very high grade in the course, but I just can't understand her stand for most questions.