french final review
i
found this stuff on my computer from when my sister was taking french
3.1... i thought id pass it on to whoever else might find it useful:
Les Miserables
JVJ - steals bread. 5 years + 14 year for trying to escape. Passport jaune.
Fantine - strikes a bourgoise. Has illegitamate child. JVJ gives her freedom. turboculecous
Cosette - daughter of Fantine. Plays with a doll named Catherine. JVJ buys her + raises her like a father.
Marius - in love with Cosette. Fights in the soc. rev. JVJ sells his ring
Eponine - daughter of the Then. In love with Marius. Saves his life but dies
Gavroche - dies during the socialist rev. picks up bullets. Son of the Thenardier.
Thenardiers - raise Cosette cruely. Example of bad family. Saves JVJ's live in the sewer.
Javert - strict officer of police. Guard at Toulon.
M. Bienvenu - priest who gives JVJ the candle sticks and buys his soul
Mdm. Magloire - priest's sister. Forgets to lock the cabanet. Does not trust JVJ
Petit Gervais - chimney sweep, JVJ steals his piece de 40 sous
M. Madeleine - JVJ after he changes his life
Fauchelevent - under a horse carriage, JVJ saves life, incident raises suspicion. gardiner who lets JVJ live as his brother, Ultime.
Champmathieu - took apples, police think he is JVJ
Les Miserables The Movie
Salome Ziman - sent to christian boarding school. Marries Marius.
Mr. Ziman - jewish critic. "coward". Shot and taken care by farmers.
Mrs. Ziman - Catholic converted dancer. Sent to camp.
Henri Fortin - boxer. Person like JVJ.
Le pere de Henri - accused of killing someone. Sent to jail and tries to escape.
La mere de Henri - sells her body. Kills herself after her husband dies.
Marius - marries Salome. Works as a Bartender.
Officer de Policier - person like Javert. Agent for Germany during WWII.
Farmer - jealous of cheating wife. Lies about WWII progress
Farmer's wife - doesn't actually have an affair with Mr. Ziman.
Simple Past
ER - ai, as, a ames, ates, etent
IR/RE - is, is, it, imes, ites, irent
Avoir - e + us, us, ut, umes, utes, urent
Etre - f + us, us, ut, umes, utes, urent
Relative Pronouns
Person Thing
Ob qui qui
Sub que que
Oprep qui lequel
Exceptions: De qui etes-vous ____?
A qui est ____? / Dans quel ____
Lequel de _____ / Quel est le nom _____
Quelle _____!
Interogative Pronouns
Person Thing
Ob qui qu'est-ce qui
Sub qui que
Oprep qui quoi
Penser a - have in mind
Penser de - have an opinion
Tout ce / Qu'est que c'est ___?
Direct and Indirect Pronouns
Me, te, se, nous, vous, le, la, l', les, lui, leur, y, en
After commands - direct, indirect, y, en
La Boum
Vic - 14 year old, likes to party
Mathieu - goes out with Vic
Lydia - Mathieu's mistress, she sleeps around
Penelope - Vic's best friend
Ariere grandmere - crazy great grandmother. plays the harp
Francois - dentiste. Seduced by patient. Fake cast.
Francoise - cartoonist. Having another baby.
Eric - German teacher. Mistress of Francoise.
French Review
LA NORMANDIE
-le camembert, le Port Salut = cheese
-le Mont St. Michel = monastery/isle with an abbaye
-les Plages d’Invasion: Omaha et Utah = where d-day launch was (ww2)… American invasion beaches
-Deauville et Trouville = beach resorts with casino
-la Tapisserire de Bayeux = oldest tapestry in the world
-Guillaume le Conquerant = French king who conquered England
-Monet = artist
-Flaubert = writer
-les produits : la dentelle, les pommes, les chevaux = lace, apples, horses
-le Calvados = liquor
-la Seine = river
-la mort de Jeanne D’Arc = where joan of arc died
-Rouen = Capital
LA BRETANGE
-celtique = culture, ancestry, influenced
-les pardons = festival of repentance, religious ceremonies
-les menhirs et les dolmens = historic rock formations
-les coiffes = lace headress
-les crepes = food
-les calvaires = statues of crucifixion
-le Quimperware = pottery
-le homard = lobsters
-Carnac = city with famous rock formations
-J. Cartier = explorer (‘d Canada)
-A. Stivell = Celtic rock music
-breton (le langue) = language
LA LOIRE
-Chambord, Blois, Chenonceaux, Cheverny, Amboise (les chateaux) = castles
-Le Mans = 24 hr car race
-Vouvray = sparkling wine
-François 1 = contructed castles in Loire
-DaVinci = artist, designed those castles
-la Loire = river
-Orléans = capital
LA BOURGOGNE (gastronomical capital of France)
-Beaujolais, Chablis = wines
-les Trois Glorieuses = largest wine auction in the world
-Beaune = city of the wine auction
-la moutard de Dijon = mustard
-le parc de Morvan = national park
-les églises romanes = roman cathedrals
-le bœuf bourguignon, le coq au vin, les escargots = food specialties
LA CHAMPAGNE
-Epernay, Reims = champagne towns (wine caves)
-les Ardennes = forest, battle of the bulge, treaty ending ww2 was signed here
-Verdun = biggest massacre in ww1
- Dom Perignon, Moet et Chandon, Mumms, Tattinger = champanges
- DeGaulle= 1st prez of the 5th repub
-l’eglise gothique = gothic cathedrals
-brie = cheese
L’AUVERGNE
-les puys = extinct volcanoes
-les gants = gloves (products)
-Michelin = tires company (producer)
-les spas = spas (an attraction)
-Vichy = origin of French government during ww2, also type of water and spa place
-les eglises romanes = roman cathedrals
-Conques = romanesque cathedral town
-la dentelle = lace (product)
-Veringetorix = George Washington of France, liberated france from rome
-Pascal = mathematician
-le Massif Central = mountains
LE LANGUEDOC
-les Pyrenees = mountains
-Perrier = water
-la Camarque = wild place (like everglades)
-les gardiens = cowboys
-les gitans = gypsys
-Nimes, le Pont du Gard = roman ruins (n-arena, pdg-aquaduct)
-la Mediterranee = sea
-Avignon ; le palais de papes = town, palace of the popes
-Carcasonne = best preserved medival town in europe
-Aigues-Mortes = center of the crusades
-Albi = a roman painted cathedral, most beautiful
-Toulouse-Lautrec = artist
-le roquefort = cheese
-Aviation sud ; le concorde = southern aviation, makes the concorde plane (types of planes ?)
-la lanque d’oc et le catalan = languages
-Toulouse = capital
LA PROVENCE
-Van Gogh, Renior, Cezanne, Picasso = artists
-la Mediterranee = sea
-la Cote d’Azur = French Riviera
-Nice, le carnival = first mardi gras
-Cannes, le festival de film = city, film festival
-Grasse, le parfum = city, perfume industry
-Menton = citrus fruit festival
-les fruits argumes = citrus fruits
-Orange et Arles = Roman ruins
-les ordinatures = computers (product)
-Marseille = oldest city in France, 2nd largest
-la bouillabaisse = fish stew
-Matisse, Chagall = artists
-les Alpes Maritimes = mountains
-Provencal = language
LA COURSE
-Napoleon = emperor of France
-la vendetta = grudge, 2x revenge
-le marquis = resistance
-Ajaccio = capital
-les falaises de Bonafaccio = white cliffs
-le saucisson d’ane= donkey saussage (specialty)
-la pissaladiere = pizza
-les Genoeses = settlers from italy
-Italien et Corsican = languages
LE PAYS BASQUE
-Euskara ou Basque = languages
-la pelote = national sport
-Biarritz = beach resort and casino
-les Pyrenees = mountains
-les espadrilles = rope sandals
-le beret = hat
-l’Atlantique = sea
-la danse sur le verre de vin = dancing on wine glasses
-la jambon de Bayonne = food
-la dune de Pyla = highest dune in Europe
-Ravel = composer
-Ronsard= wrote Cyrano de Bergerac
LE SUD-OUEST
-les grottes prehistoriques peintes = painted caves, prehistoric pictures
-Lascaux = most beautiful painted cave, 20,000 bc
-le pate de fois gras = specialty
-les chateaux medievaux de la Guerre de 100 ans = midevil castle
-Eleonore d’Aquitaine = queen
-les villes medievales de pelerinage---Rocamadour = medieval pilgrimage center
-Bordeaux = wine
-les truffles = mushrooms
-Limoges = best porcelain in the world
-Renoir = artist
L’ALSACE ET LORRAINE
-allemand et alsatien = languages
-le biere : Kronenbourg = beer
-les Vosges = mountain
-le Rhin = river
-la route de vin = attraction, goes through vinyards and wine towns
-Reisling, Sylvander, Gewurtztraminer = wines
-meunster = cheese
-la choucroute = saurcroute, specialty
-la cigogne = good luck stork
-le crystal de Baccaarat = best crystal in world
-Strasbourg et le Parlement d’Europe= strasbourg is the capital
-Colmar = canals
-A. Schweitzer = doctor, musician, minister
-Jeanne d’Arc = Joan of Arc (born there)
-Vittel = water
LA SAVOIE ET LE DAUPHINE
-Chamonix, Albertville, Grenoble = birthplace of the Winter Olympics
-Annecy-Gillette = canal
-Dynastar et Rossignol = ski companies
-le gruyere et l’emmenthal = cheese
-la fondue = fondue
-la Chartreuse = la liquer
-le ski = ski (attractions)
-les Alpes = mountains
-le Lac Leman, le lac d’Annecy, le lac du Bourget = 3 lakes
-evian = water
-les chalets = houses
-Berlioz = composer
-J.C. Killy = skiier
-Stendhal = writer
-la Mer de Glace = largest Glacier in europe
LE NORD
-les cathedrales gothiques (Amiens, Bourges) = Gothic Cathedrales
-la biere = beer
-l’influence hollondaise = Hollondaise(ish) influence
-le tunnel entre la France (Calais) et l’Angleterre (Douvres-Dover) = tunnel entering France from England
-Dunkirk-la ville d’evacuation de la 2e Guerre Mondiale = (where the boats left France ?)
-la Mer du Nord = Sea
-Lille = capital
-la charbon = (char)coal
-Montreuil-Sur-Mer= in Les Miserables
PASSE SIMPLE
drop « er »
add
ai âmes
as âtes
a èrent
drop « ir/re »
add
is imes
is îites
it irent
etre
fus fûmes
fus fûtes
fut furent
avoir
eus eûmes
eus eûtes
eut eurent
double direct and indirect object order :
me te se nous vous le la les lui leur y en
Les Miserables
JVJ - steals bread. 5 years + 14 year for trying to escape. Passport jaune.
Fantine - strikes a bourgoise. Has illegitamate child. JVJ gives her freedom. turboculecous
Cosette - daughter of Fantine. Plays with a doll named Catherine. JVJ buys her + raises her like a father.
Marius - in love with Cosette. Fights in the soc. rev. JVJ sells his ring
Eponine - daughter of the Then. In love with Marius. Saves his life but dies
Gavroche - dies during the socialist rev. picks up bullets. Son of the Thenardier.
Thenardiers - raise Cosette cruely. Example of bad family. Saves JVJ's live in the sewer.
Javert - strict officer of police. Guard at Toulon.
M. Bienvenu - priest who gives JVJ the candle sticks and buys his soul
Mdm. Magloire - priest's sister. Forgets to lock the cabanet. Does not trust JVJ
Petit Gervais - chimney sweep, JVJ steals his piece de 40 sous
M. Madeleine - JVJ after he changes his life
Fauchelevent - under a horse carriage, JVJ saves life, incident raises suspicion. gardiner who lets JVJ live as his brother, Ultime.
Champmathieu - took apples, police think he is JVJ
Les Miserables The Movie
Salome Ziman - sent to christian boarding school. Marries Marius.
Mr. Ziman - jewish critic. "coward". Shot and taken care by farmers.
Mrs. Ziman - Catholic converted dancer. Sent to camp.
Henri Fortin - boxer. Person like JVJ.
Le pere de Henri - accused of killing someone. Sent to jail and tries to escape.
La mere de Henri - sells her body. Kills herself after her husband dies.
Marius - marries Salome. Works as a Bartender.
Officer de Policier - person like Javert. Agent for Germany during WWII.
Farmer - jealous of cheating wife. Lies about WWII progress
Farmer's wife - doesn't actually have an affair with Mr. Ziman.
Simple Past
ER - ai, as, a ames, ates, etent
IR/RE - is, is, it, imes, ites, irent
Avoir - e + us, us, ut, umes, utes, urent
Etre - f + us, us, ut, umes, utes, urent
Relative Pronouns
Person Thing
Ob qui qui
Sub que que
Oprep qui lequel
Exceptions: De qui etes-vous ____?
A qui est ____? / Dans quel ____
Lequel de _____ / Quel est le nom _____
Quelle _____!
Interogative Pronouns
Person Thing
Ob qui qu'est-ce qui
Sub qui que
Oprep qui quoi
Penser a - have in mind
Penser de - have an opinion
Tout ce / Qu'est que c'est ___?
Direct and Indirect Pronouns
Me, te, se, nous, vous, le, la, l', les, lui, leur, y, en
After commands - direct, indirect, y, en
La Boum
Vic - 14 year old, likes to party
Mathieu - goes out with Vic
Lydia - Mathieu's mistress, she sleeps around
Penelope - Vic's best friend
Ariere grandmere - crazy great grandmother. plays the harp
Francois - dentiste. Seduced by patient. Fake cast.
Francoise - cartoonist. Having another baby.
Eric - German teacher. Mistress of Francoise.
French Review
LA NORMANDIE
-le camembert, le Port Salut = cheese
-le Mont St. Michel = monastery/isle with an abbaye
-les Plages d’Invasion: Omaha et Utah = where d-day launch was (ww2)… American invasion beaches
-Deauville et Trouville = beach resorts with casino
-la Tapisserire de Bayeux = oldest tapestry in the world
-Guillaume le Conquerant = French king who conquered England
-Monet = artist
-Flaubert = writer
-les produits : la dentelle, les pommes, les chevaux = lace, apples, horses
-le Calvados = liquor
-la Seine = river
-la mort de Jeanne D’Arc = where joan of arc died
-Rouen = Capital
LA BRETANGE
-celtique = culture, ancestry, influenced
-les pardons = festival of repentance, religious ceremonies
-les menhirs et les dolmens = historic rock formations
-les coiffes = lace headress
-les crepes = food
-les calvaires = statues of crucifixion
-le Quimperware = pottery
-le homard = lobsters
-Carnac = city with famous rock formations
-J. Cartier = explorer (‘d Canada)
-A. Stivell = Celtic rock music
-breton (le langue) = language
LA LOIRE
-Chambord, Blois, Chenonceaux, Cheverny, Amboise (les chateaux) = castles
-Le Mans = 24 hr car race
-Vouvray = sparkling wine
-François 1 = contructed castles in Loire
-DaVinci = artist, designed those castles
-la Loire = river
-Orléans = capital
LA BOURGOGNE (gastronomical capital of France)
-Beaujolais, Chablis = wines
-les Trois Glorieuses = largest wine auction in the world
-Beaune = city of the wine auction
-la moutard de Dijon = mustard
-le parc de Morvan = national park
-les églises romanes = roman cathedrals
-le bœuf bourguignon, le coq au vin, les escargots = food specialties
LA CHAMPAGNE
-Epernay, Reims = champagne towns (wine caves)
-les Ardennes = forest, battle of the bulge, treaty ending ww2 was signed here
-Verdun = biggest massacre in ww1
- Dom Perignon, Moet et Chandon, Mumms, Tattinger = champanges
- DeGaulle= 1st prez of the 5th repub
-l’eglise gothique = gothic cathedrals
-brie = cheese
L’AUVERGNE
-les puys = extinct volcanoes
-les gants = gloves (products)
-Michelin = tires company (producer)
-les spas = spas (an attraction)
-Vichy = origin of French government during ww2, also type of water and spa place
-les eglises romanes = roman cathedrals
-Conques = romanesque cathedral town
-la dentelle = lace (product)
-Veringetorix = George Washington of France, liberated france from rome
-Pascal = mathematician
-le Massif Central = mountains
LE LANGUEDOC
-les Pyrenees = mountains
-Perrier = water
-la Camarque = wild place (like everglades)
-les gardiens = cowboys
-les gitans = gypsys
-Nimes, le Pont du Gard = roman ruins (n-arena, pdg-aquaduct)
-la Mediterranee = sea
-Avignon ; le palais de papes = town, palace of the popes
-Carcasonne = best preserved medival town in europe
-Aigues-Mortes = center of the crusades
-Albi = a roman painted cathedral, most beautiful
-Toulouse-Lautrec = artist
-le roquefort = cheese
-Aviation sud ; le concorde = southern aviation, makes the concorde plane (types of planes ?)
-la lanque d’oc et le catalan = languages
-Toulouse = capital
LA PROVENCE
-Van Gogh, Renior, Cezanne, Picasso = artists
-la Mediterranee = sea
-la Cote d’Azur = French Riviera
-Nice, le carnival = first mardi gras
-Cannes, le festival de film = city, film festival
-Grasse, le parfum = city, perfume industry
-Menton = citrus fruit festival
-les fruits argumes = citrus fruits
-Orange et Arles = Roman ruins
-les ordinatures = computers (product)
-Marseille = oldest city in France, 2nd largest
-la bouillabaisse = fish stew
-Matisse, Chagall = artists
-les Alpes Maritimes = mountains
-Provencal = language
LA COURSE
-Napoleon = emperor of France
-la vendetta = grudge, 2x revenge
-le marquis = resistance
-Ajaccio = capital
-les falaises de Bonafaccio = white cliffs
-le saucisson d’ane= donkey saussage (specialty)
-la pissaladiere = pizza
-les Genoeses = settlers from italy
-Italien et Corsican = languages
LE PAYS BASQUE
-Euskara ou Basque = languages
-la pelote = national sport
-Biarritz = beach resort and casino
-les Pyrenees = mountains
-les espadrilles = rope sandals
-le beret = hat
-l’Atlantique = sea
-la danse sur le verre de vin = dancing on wine glasses
-la jambon de Bayonne = food
-la dune de Pyla = highest dune in Europe
-Ravel = composer
-Ronsard= wrote Cyrano de Bergerac
LE SUD-OUEST
-les grottes prehistoriques peintes = painted caves, prehistoric pictures
-Lascaux = most beautiful painted cave, 20,000 bc
-le pate de fois gras = specialty
-les chateaux medievaux de la Guerre de 100 ans = midevil castle
-Eleonore d’Aquitaine = queen
-les villes medievales de pelerinage---Rocamadour = medieval pilgrimage center
-Bordeaux = wine
-les truffles = mushrooms
-Limoges = best porcelain in the world
-Renoir = artist
L’ALSACE ET LORRAINE
-allemand et alsatien = languages
-le biere : Kronenbourg = beer
-les Vosges = mountain
-le Rhin = river
-la route de vin = attraction, goes through vinyards and wine towns
-Reisling, Sylvander, Gewurtztraminer = wines
-meunster = cheese
-la choucroute = saurcroute, specialty
-la cigogne = good luck stork
-le crystal de Baccaarat = best crystal in world
-Strasbourg et le Parlement d’Europe= strasbourg is the capital
-Colmar = canals
-A. Schweitzer = doctor, musician, minister
-Jeanne d’Arc = Joan of Arc (born there)
-Vittel = water
LA SAVOIE ET LE DAUPHINE
-Chamonix, Albertville, Grenoble = birthplace of the Winter Olympics
-Annecy-Gillette = canal
-Dynastar et Rossignol = ski companies
-le gruyere et l’emmenthal = cheese
-la fondue = fondue
-la Chartreuse = la liquer
-le ski = ski (attractions)
-les Alpes = mountains
-le Lac Leman, le lac d’Annecy, le lac du Bourget = 3 lakes
-evian = water
-les chalets = houses
-Berlioz = composer
-J.C. Killy = skiier
-Stendhal = writer
-la Mer de Glace = largest Glacier in europe
LE NORD
-les cathedrales gothiques (Amiens, Bourges) = Gothic Cathedrales
-la biere = beer
-l’influence hollondaise = Hollondaise(ish) influence
-le tunnel entre la France (Calais) et l’Angleterre (Douvres-Dover) = tunnel entering France from England
-Dunkirk-la ville d’evacuation de la 2e Guerre Mondiale = (where the boats left France ?)
-la Mer du Nord = Sea
-Lille = capital
-la charbon = (char)coal
-Montreuil-Sur-Mer= in Les Miserables
PASSE SIMPLE
drop « er »
add
ai âmes
as âtes
a èrent
drop « ir/re »
add
is imes
is îites
it irent
etre
fus fûmes
fus fûtes
fut furent
avoir
eus eûmes
eus eûtes
eut eurent
double direct and indirect object order :
me te se nous vous le la les lui leur y en