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Routine and Time
Reflexive verbs and telling time
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Je me lève: reflexive verbs
Waking up, getting dressed, going to bed — the verbs you do to yourself.
Abrir lição- A pronominal verb carries se in the infinitive: se lever, se réveiller, s'habiller, se coucher, s'appeler.
- The pronoun matches the subject: me, te, se, nous, vous, se — and shrinks to m', t', s' before a vowel.
- It sits before the verb, and ne … pas goes around the pair: Je ne me lève pas.
- Se réveiller is waking up; se lever is getting up.
- On takes the il form: on se lève.
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From vingt to cent: numbers 20–100
Count to a hundred — including soixante-dix and quatre-vingts — and read out a French phone number.
Abrir lição- Tens: vingt, trente, quarante, cinquante, soixante; units join with a hyphen — trente-cinq.
- 21, 31… 61 and 71 take et: vingt et un, soixante et onze — but not 81 or 91.
- 70 = soixante-dix, 80 = quatre-vingts, 90 = quatre-vingt-dix: keep counting with onze… dix-neuf.
- Quatre-vingts keeps its s only when nothing follows: quatre-vingt-deux.
- Cent is 100 — never un cent.
- Phone numbers come in pairs: zéro six, soixante-dix-huit, quatre-vingt-onze…
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Quelle heure est-il ? Telling the time
Ask and tell the time, say when things happen — and find out why dinner at eight doesn't start at eight.
Abrir lição- Quelle heure est-il ? — always il est + heures: Il est deux heures.
- Et quart, et demie, moins le quart, moins dix; midi and minuit stand alone.
- Heure is feminine: une heure, et demie.
- “At” a time is à: à huit heures — with du matin, de l'après-midi, du soir after a clock time.
- Official times use the 24-hour clock with plain minutes: vingt heures trente.
- For dinner with friends, the quart d'heure de politesse: arrive a little after the time — pile means on the dot.
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A day in Luana's life
Follow Luana from her first coffee to bedtime — then talk about a day of your own.
Abrir lição- Se réveiller is waking up; se lever is getting up — Luana does one at seven, the other at quarter past.
- Se doucher, se reposer, se coucher work like se lever: je me douche, je me repose, je me couche.
- Link a day with d'abord, ensuite, puis, après, enfin.
- Rentrer — to go back home: je rentre à la maison / chez moi.
- Three meals: le petit-déjeuner, le déjeuner, le dîner — plus the children's goûter.