Rév. aoùt 2009
On-Line Interactive Exercises for French 1:
These exercises will give you more
practice with the material covered in class.
Answers are available for all exercises: most are interactive; some you will
need to print out (along with answers). Since they come from a variety of
sources, the vocabulary may not correspond exactly with that used in Rapports.
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Rapports:
Chapter Préliminaire
L’Alphabet, les accents, les
voyelles, les consonnes, etc.
(an excellent tool—though can be a
bit slow to load)
(you’ll need QuickTime to run this
audio practice program)
(requires QuickTime)
Cognates:
French and English words that are similar in spelling
and meaning
Hear French words or sentences spoken
at various speeds
Listen to and
repeat the numbers from 0 to 9
Click
on and repeat numbers 1-10, 20, 30, 1000
Hear Numbers, dates,
months, seasons
French
Gestures
(the top 10 typically French gestures)
Rapports
Chapter 1:
Féminin? ou Masculin? Noun gender
Give
the correct form of the definite article (le, la, les, l’)
Ch. 1, Grammar
Section II:
Subject Pronouns
& First Conjugation (-er) Verbs
Ch. 1, Grammar
Section III :
Rapports
Chapter 2:
Ch. 2, Grammar
Section I:
Basic
Negation: using “ne…pas”
Il n’y a pas DE
(practice with negation)
(put the words in the correct order
by clicking on the first word, then the second, etc)
Ch. 2, Grammar
Section II :
Le verbe “être” et les verbes en -er
La Famille de Camille Lagrange
(identify the
familial relationships according to the picture)
Review names for
family members
The Better Half?
(Making Nouns & Adjectives Feminine)
Write the
correct form of the adjectives
Can you
pick out the masculine adjective forms?
Ch. 2, Grammar
Section IV :
3? 13? ou 30? (oral discrimination)
Rapports Chapter 3:
Plurals
With Definite & Indefinite Articles
Give
the correct gender of these words
Give
the correct form of the Indefinite Article (un, une, des)
Indefinite Articles after
“Ne Pas”
Ch. 3, Grammar
Section II:
Choosing
Between Definite & Indefinite Articles
Les
Articles Partitifs--encore
Le partitif - Un déjeuner chez Popeye
More
Practice with the Partitive
Le partitif vs. l’article
défini
The Imperative: giving orders,
advice, suggestions
Practice with imperative
forms
(On the left, click on unite 1, L’impéritif
1)
The
Imperative (includes a few verbs you might not know)
More commands to give
(includes a few verbs you may not know)
Rapports Chapter 4:
Some common French prepositions
Prepositions
of place: Où
sont-ils?
Contractions with à + definite
article
Contractions
with the prepositions à and de
Practice
using contractions of à and de
Ch. 4, Grammar
Section II:
Practice
answering questions with the “futur proche”
Which article to use
with countries: le, la, les, l’ ?
Articles
and Prepositions with Placenames
Review of
Adjectives of Nationality
More
Adjectives of Nationality
Choose the words that
match the numbers
Review 1st Conjugation
(-er) verbs
Rapports Chapter
5:
Ch. 5, Grammar
Section I:
Practicing the Passé Composé I
Time Expressions & the Passé Composé
Ch. 5, Grammar
Section III:
Fill in the blank with the
correct possessive adjective
Showing
possession with être + à (=
to belong to)
Stressed or Disjunctive Pronouns
Stressed or Disjunctive Pronouns
II
Stressed
or Disjunctive Pronouns III
Rapports Chapter 6:
Practicing the Passé Composé II
Making the Passé Composé Negative
on the
left, scroll to unite 3, le passé compose (2)
Ch. 6, Grammar
Section II:
Questions Using
Subject/verb Inversion
Interrogative Words
(où, comment, pourquoi, quand, combien)
More
verbs in –re (skip
question 12)
Third
conjugation verbs in the present and passé composé
Ch. 6, Grammar
Section IV:
L’heure officielle (hear how to say
it!)
Time :
L’heure conventionnelle
Some things you might want to review before the final:
Review the gender of
countries
D'où venons-nous et où allons-nous?
Avoir, Être, Aller, Faire, Boire
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Suggestions?
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