Vocabulary Preparation French Interactive - Chapter 2
>> Are you ready to begin the Vocabulary Preparation for Chapter 2?
>> Yes >> Okay. Let's get started.
We're starting with the words that are difficult to pronounce. Okay?
Who has a word that is difficult to pronounce?
Will you pronounce…oh, okay.
>> Quelquefois (Sometimes) >> Huh?
>> Quelquefois. Very good. Everyone repeat, quelquefois.
Very good. Another word that is difficult to pronounce?
Do you have a word that is difficult to pronounce?
>> Rencontrer (to meet)? >> Yes. Everybody…"rencontrer".
Okay. We will do the next section which is associations. Okay?
Who has a good association? You. Okay.
>> Un homme and une femme (a man and a woman). >>Again? One more time.
Un homme, un homme, yes, and une femme, une femme.
Okay, everyone, "un homme", "une femme". Okay.
Okay. Another association. Okay.
>> Un père et une mère (a father and a mother). >> Un père et une mère, okay. Very good.
Okay. More opposites, right? Okay. The last one. One final association.
You, over there. Do you have one?
>>Aimer (to like), aimer, et adorer (to love) >> Okay, very good. Everyone? "Aimer". "Adorer".
Okay, now for cognates, okay? Cognates, the next section.
This is very easy, right? Who has a cognate? Cognates. Okay?
>> Danser. >> Danser, to dance. Okay.
Another? >>Age, âge, age, obviously.
Okay. Uh, now, word families. Did you find any word families in the vocabulary?
>>Yes. Okay, okay. >> Etudier (to study) and un étudiant (student).
Etudier, un étudiant. Very good. Etudier is a verb, right? And un étudiant is a person, a noun.
Very good. Who has another word family?
>> Aimer (to love), Amourueux (in love-masculine), Amoureuse (in love-feminine)
Very good. Okay? What does "aimer" mean? To like. And what does "amoureux" mean? To be in love.
In love, right? In love. Amoureux/amoureuse, it's the masculin and feminin, right? Aimer is the verb.
Very good. Okay. Uh…now we are going to do the exercise, find the one which doesn't belong.
Okay? You are going to get into groups of two or three people.
A daughter, an uncle, a sister, a friend.
>> A sister? >> No.
Look again. A friend? Why? Because the others are family.
Do you have a good "find the one which doesn't belong?"
>> China, Asia, Canada, Japan. >> Okay, Canada and Japan. Asia. Asia?
>> A country. >> A country? Asia is a...
Continent. Yes, it's a continent, that's right. The others are countries, right? Yes, that's right.
Play tennis, play soccer, play the guitar, play cards.
Okay so everthing is playing a sport and then playing cards. Yes. Awesome.
Ok, chanter (to sing), danser (to dance), lire (to read), habiter (to live).
>> Chanter, danser, lire, habiter. They're all verbs?
>> Well actually, lire is to read. I just put in there "all of these end in -er except for lire".