16 septembre : l'alphabet / les nombres 11-20 / le verbe "avoir" / l'âge

• Frans
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Partie 1 : l'alphabet

L’alphabet français

Listen to the audio in the following slide. Write down the letters that are very different from the English

Activité

1- Spell your first name and last name and ask your classmate to write the letters that they hear.

2- Now do the same with the name of a celebrity of your choice!

Activité

Listen to this phone number and write it down!

Partie 2 : l'âge

Tu as quel âge ? (how old are you?)

In French, we use "avoir" (to have) to say our age: we don't say "I am 13" but we say instead "I have 13"

Lesson objective: learn how to say your age

For this, you will learn:

- verb "avoir" (to have)

- numbers 11-20

Les nombres 11-20

Watch the following video.

In your notebook, write down numbers 1-20 in French.

Now compare your notes with the following slide

Le verbe "avoir" (to have)

le verbe avoir

j'	ai
tu
il / elle
nous
vous
ils / elles

le verbe avoir

j'	ai
tu	as
il	a
elle	a
nous	avons
vous	avez
ils	ont
elles	ont

le verbe "avoir" (to have)

              subject                                                                                             verb

j' (I)	ai (have)
tu (you)	as (have)
il (he)	a (has)
elle (she)	a (has)
nous (we)	avons (have)
vous (you)	avez (have)
ils (they)	ont (have)
elles (they)	ont (have)

Why does "you" have 2 translations in French?

you

tu                           when you address one person

vous                     when you address a group of people

                        or

                               when you address one person formally

Tu as quel âge ?

J'ai 12 ans

Et toi ? Tu as quel âge ?

• Answer with a full sentence in your yellow notebook.

Go to Language Gym

Log in and Practise verb "avoir" with this activity

At the end of this lesson, you should remember:

- how to pronounce letters of the alphabet in French

- numbers 11-20

- how to conjugate verb "avoir"

- how to ask someone about their age

- how to say your age