Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Words for the next dictée Tuesday April 7th

I am now starting to give verbs in the infinitive. This is the form that appears in the dictionary. It is very difficult to explain grammar to children at this age. However, most of my students can now easily distinguish between verbs and nouns. When children ask me what an infinive is, I often say  L'infinitif, c'est comme le vrai nom du verbe.  "The infinitive is like the real name of the verb." From now on, students will be expected to conjugate each new verb in the present tense. Thus, for aimer, they should be able to rhyme off: j'aime, tu aimes, il / elle / on aime, nous aimons, vous aimez, ils / elles aiment. This is only way they will ever be able to progress in their writing. The complete conjugation of all verbs in all tenses is easily accessible through the online dictionary WordReference. So, the words for this week are: aile, aimer, avoir, beau, chambre, cœur, dormir, eau, être and fête.

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