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hey there Loup

thanx for that in AngelicWitch's journal....

hunni i chose to do French for GCSE instead of Spanish

i actually quite enjoy it..but i got a ikkle stuck...with some work on different verbs.

most verns go with aller but 13 go with etre...(i hope thats right ) and if you take the first letter of ech etre verb you made the word
M
R
S
V
A
N
D
E
R
T
A
M
P

but i cant rememeber the words! this is simple stuff in year 8 and 9 but i cant rememeber cuz its been soon long since iv revised this work...

ooo im a bit happy i got my level 7 in yera 9 which is an B-A* at GCSE woohoo

LoVe LoZ xxxx

hi loz...

i will have a look at this list of verbs that go with etre... that's a neat trick and will become useful when i do my french tutoring...

hopefully i will be able to make up that list as soon as possible...

got to go offline soon but talk soon...

loup

and congrats for your results...

Hiya!
I use that pnuemonic as well - except mine is Ms Vandertramp
Here's the words

M - Mourir (to die)
S - Sortir (to go out)
V - Venir (to come)
A - Aller (to go)
N - Naitre (to be born)
D - Descendre (to go down)
E - Entrer (to enter) (I think.... )
R - Rentrer (to re-enter) OR Revenir (to come back)
T - Tomber (to fall)
R - Rester (to stay NOT to rest!)
A - Avoir (to have)
M - Monter (to climb up)
P - Partir (to leave)

I *think* thats right... check with Loup though

Lou

ahhhhhh yeah hats it! ms Vandertramp??? lol

yeah thanx Lou i think thats right cuz i remeber making a story to help me.... bou someone being born climbing laposts or something lieke that.... lol

Loup is Lou right??

thanx sweedie...


LoZ xxx

I remember they go in pairs... so you've got Monter and Descendre, Mourir and Naitre etc etc

My textbook had a pretty picture, if I find it I'll scan it and email it to you

awwww thanx darlin that would be great! but erm...you dont have my email addy do you??

so how long you been doing french for?? did youdo it for GCSE??

LoZ xxx

True, true
If I find it I'll get it - that Ok?

Erm.... Since year 8.. now starting year 13 so six odd years - did GCSE, AS and now A2 (I must be mad)

What about you?

k if you find it mesaage me and ill gove yu my address...

erm since year 7 so 3 years now...i chose to carry on with it rather than spanish....still quite good at spanish tho...

wow! you must be really good! what GCSE grde did yo get hun??

LoZ zzzzz

I'm not good

Well

I got an A*

Same in German

Never got the chance to do Spanish

But A and A* was the norm at my school - My 6 A* and 3 A was pretty low compared to my friends

yep.... sounds right..

i didn't have to learn that with french being my first language and all... but i can see it definitely be included in my tutoring...

right timing as well as i've been assigned a second client..
not bad considering i started working for that agency last week...



loup

*dances* woohoo, I stil remember

hehe...

hi louo, lou and loz i hope you do not mind me being here. that's sounds a handy way to remember e words that go with etre. i actually started learning french at the age of 8 in ashington and was very good it but i moved down to london and had to wait until i was 11 before i started again. we did not have any french phrase books, if you missed any lessons the teacher did not tell you what you had missed. i was struggling but the teacher was not interested in helping me. all we had were excerise books and nothing else.

loup i am very glad that you have another student.

kat

we were not taught any short cuts in remembering anything. if you could not understand anything it was tough. i have very bad experiences as the teacher was only interested in teaching the bright students.

kat

yep... teachers in these days were not really trying to encourage the pupils...

about new student... it's only for 8 weeks this one but at least that shows that i'm on the agency's priority list..

talk soon..

loup

thanks loup but i know this time it will be different might learn how to tell jokes. when i was learning to play the piano and when i have done any cooking there have been quite a few french phrases and expressions.

i am very glad that you are doing so welll as a french tutor and i know that you will always encourage your students as they learn.

kat

kat... yep.. there are quite a lot of french expressions and words in the english language...

lou.. regarding "avoir" it struck me that it's _the_ verb that goes with "etre" [to be] and "avoir" [to have]... i will have to be careful not to confuse people with it...

aaaaaah the beauty of the french grammar and its illogicallity...

kat... about encouraging students... yep... a little bit of encouragement does wonders...

talk soon..

loup

english is quite a strange language and has lots of contradictions - gnmone is pronouned nomone, school is either prounced softly or hard.

words like neither are either prounced as nether or nither as well as words like rose, windy have several meanings. i think this is due to the fact english is a hybrid language coming from various sources norman, scandinavian, german, latin, greek, east european, and asian sources.

kat

yep...
that's one of the technics i use to show people that they know more french that they think: showing them the similarities between some english words and french words...


i have to go offline now...

talk soon everyone..

loup