Façon de Parler 1 French for Beginners 5ED: Coursebook

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Describing continuous activities in the past. Means of transport. The imperfect tense. Reported speech. Discussing jobs, working hours and conditions of service. Answering ads and making job applications. A turn of phrase or rhetorical formula, especially one that ought not to be taken literally, but rather as employed for convenience of expression only. French history and culture. Writing an extended narrative. The past historic. More use of the passive.

de Parler 1 French for Beginners 5ED: Coursebook Façon de Parler 1 French for Beginners 5ED: Coursebook

Introductions and personal details. Revision of the present tense; habiter + a + en. Use of depuis + present tense. Agreement of adjectives. Accommodation problems. Saying what has happened. Pros and cons of forms of transport. More perfect and imperfect tenses. The perfect passive. Activities in the past. Invitations and formal letters. Revision of the perfect tense with avoir, regular and common irregular verbs; several verbs with etre. Agreement of preceding object. Il y a meaning 'ago'.C’était une façon de parler, en effet : on connaît les héros. Autrefois, on les voyait sur la place publique, maintenant, on les voit et les entend dans les cinémas. Et bientôt, par la télévision, leur recès le plus intime sera de verre ; alors régnera une totale fraternité. — (Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Le Feu follet (1931))