UNITE 3

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UNITE 3 Leçon B

• Ordering food and beverages

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Gender of Nouns

• Unlike nouns in English, every French noun has a
  gender, either masculine or feminine. You will
  need to remember the gender of each French noun
  that you learn.
• La Tour Eiffel

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Definite Articles pg 84

• To refer to a specific person, place or thing,
  you use a definite article. The definite
  articles in French are listed below.
• They ALL mean the.
• Le comes before a masculine word beginning with
  a consonant sound.
• La before a feminine word w/ consonant sound.
• L used instead of the le or la before a word
  that begins with a vowel sound.
• Les the plural form of le, la and l.

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Pronunciation of Definite Articles

• Le luh - rhymes with je
• La lah
• Les lay rhymes with day, pay, ray, say!
• In spoken French, the sound of les is often the
  only indication that the noun is plural. Always
  be careful to distinguish between the different
  sounds.

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Indefinite Articles

• Un and une are indefinite articles.
• They mean a or an (or one when using as a
  number!)
• Des the plural form means some
• The great thing about articles in French is that
  they usually indicate the gender of the noun.
• Je voudrais une salade et un jus dorange.
• Salade is feminine jus is masculine.

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des boissons (f.)

• un café a coffee
• un coca a Coke
• un coca light a Diet Coke
• un jus de pomme an apple juice
• un jus dorange an orange juice
• un jus de raisin a grape juice
• un jus de fruit a fruit juice
• une limonade a lemon-lime soda
• une eau minérale a mineral water

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la nourriture

• un sandwich
• un sandwich au jambon
• un sandwich au fromage
• un hamburger
• un hot-dog
• un steak-frites
• saignant rare
• à point medium
• bien cuit well done

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• une salade
• une omelette
• une quiche
• le fromage cheese
• le jambon ham
• la pomme apple
• lorange (f.)
• les frites (f.) fries
• les raisins (m.) grapes

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des desserts (m.)

• une crêpe
• une glace au chocolat chocolate ice cream
• une glace à la vanille vanilla ice cream
• le chocolat
• la vanille
• la fraise

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Je voudrais..

• Je voudrais voo dray I would like
• This is the POLITE way of saying I want.
• When ordering food or drink, you would use un
  or une (or another number) prior to the noun
  (in most cases.)
• Ex. Je voudrais un steak-frites et une limonade,
  sil vous plâit .
• I would like a steak and fries and a lemon-lime
  soda please.

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Donnez-moi.

• Donnez-moi Give me
• When ordering you speak formally to your
  serveur, hence the ez (vous) ending to the
  verb donner, which means to give
• Ex. Donnez-moi un jus dorange sil vous plâit.
• Give me an orange juice please.

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Enquête culturelle p 69 - 70.

• Volunteers to read?
• Important terms to make note of during the
  reading
• Le boulevard Saint-Michel
• La Sorbonne
• Steak-frites
• Les friteries
• Un diabolo menthe
• Un express
• Un café crème
• Les crêperies
• Les galettes
• These terms are in BOLD in your textbook.

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Based on picture, say in French whether you are
hungry or thirsty!
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Pg 71 Exercise 2

• 1. Cest une
• 2. Cest un
• 3. Cest un
• 4. Cest un
• 5. Cest une
• 6. Cest une
• 7. Cest un
• 8. Cest un

• crêpe
• jus dorange
• sandwich au jambon
• café
• glace au chocolat
• salade
• steak
• hamburger

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Pg 72 Exercise 3

• If you had a choice between two items, say which
  one you would order.
• Begin sentence with Donnez-moi per the example!

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Pg 73 Exercises 4 5

• Exercise 4
• For each receipt, count the number of masculine
  items and the number of feminine items.
• Be prepared to state how many of each there are
  on each receipt AND what they are!
• Exercise 5
• Name one item you could order for each of the
  prices listed.
• 5 MINUTES!

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HOMEWORK

• Reminder Due NEXT class
• Read pages 76-78 and do Ex. 10 on page 79.
• Due WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY Workbook pages 35-40.
  USE your textbook to do them. They must be
  already completed when you walk in the room
  otherwise they will be counted 1 day late (-30)

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• Imagine that youre playing Scrabble in French.
  What food item can you spell with each set
• of letters?
• 1. elinalv __________________________
• 2. mopem __________________________
• 3. bmnajo __________________________
• 4. setirf __________________________
• 5. ssaniir __________________________
• 6. grenao __________________________
• 7. merafgo __________________________
• 8. toohlcca __________________________

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• 10. Categorize the following items by putting
  each one in the appropriate column. Put
  appropriate un or une before the noun.
• Limonade / jus de pomme / glace à la vanille
• hot-dog / hamburger / jus dorange
• glace au chocolat / crêpe / coca
• Café / jus de raisin / eau minérale
• sandwich au fromage / sandwich au jambon
• Boissons Sandwichs Desserts

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Categorize the following items by putting each
one in the appropriate column. Write un or une in
front of each item.

• JAI FAIM..
• salade
• coca
• café
• sandwich au jambon
• jus dorange
• crêpe
• omelette

• JAI SOIF
• quiche
• steak-frites
• jus de raisin
• limonade
• hot-dog
• eau minérale
• glace