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How to Teach French First Conditional Si Clauses – A French Teacher’s Guide When I teach French si clauses, I want students to understand one basic idea first: si means “if,” and the sentence describes a condition and a result. A conditional sentence has two parts: Students have to follow
How to Teach the French Futur Simple – A French Teacher’s Guide When I teach le futur simple, I want students to see that the tense is much more manageable than it may initially appear. There are two things students need to learn: the future stem and the future endings.
How to Teach French Comparisons – A French Teacher’s Guide French comparisons are useful from the very beginning of a student’s French learning because they allow students to say that something is more, less, or equal to something else. When I teach comparisons, I focus on one thing first: what
How to Teach French Bon, Bien, Meilleur and Mieux – A French Teacher’s Guide Bon, bien, meilleur, and mieux can be confusing for French students, especially because English doesn’t always make the same distinctions between adjectives and adverbs. When I teach this group of words, I don’t start by giving
How to Teach the French Passé Composé and Imperfect Together – A French Teacher’s Guide When I teach the French passé composé and imperfect together, I want students to understand that these two past tenses have different jobs. Students often learn each tense separately, but the real challenge comes when
How to Teach the French Imperfect Tense – A French Teacher’s Guide When I introduce the French imperfect tense, or l’imparfait, I don’t begin right away with conjugation charts. Students need to understand why they are using the imperfect before they worry about how to form it. By this point,
How to Teach French Savoir vs. Connaître – A French Teacher’s Guide When I teach savoir and connaître, I don’t start by giving students a long list of rules to memorize. Both verbs mean “to know” in English, but they are not interchangeable in French. I want students to understand
How to Teach the French Imperative with Pronouns – A French Teacher’s Guide The French imperative is used to give commands, orders, or express wishes. It is a very direct way to tell someone what to do, and students usually understand the basic idea fairly quickly. What becomes more challenging
How to Teach Depuis, Pendant, Pour & Il y a – A French Teacher’s Guide When I teach students how to talk about time and duration in French, depuis, pendant, pour, and il y a are four expressions that I like to teach together. They can be confusing for English-speaking
How to Teach French Double Pronouns – A French Teacher’s Guide When students begin using French pronouns, they quickly realize how useful they are. Pronouns keep them from having to repeat the same nouns over and over again and make their French sound much more natural. By the time I
How to Teach French Adverb Placement – A French Teacher’s Guide French adverb placement can be confusing for English speaking students because the position of an adverb isn’t always the same in French and English. Students often know what an adverb means but aren’t sure where to put it in
How to Teach Advanced French Negation – A French Teacher’s Guide Once students understand basic French negation with ne…pas, I like to move them on to the other negative expressions they need in order to communicate more precisely. These include ne…jamais, ne…rien, ne…personne, ne…plus, ne…pas encore, and ne…que, as well
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