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Title: Reading Guide


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Reading Guide
  • Lire en français !

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Lets try to read some French!What are your
observations?
  • LAIT est un institut de technologie
  • international dont la mission est de former des
    professionnels très qualifiés qui joueront un
    grand rôle dans le développement de la région
    Asie-Pacifique et de son intégration dans
    l'économie globale.

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What are your observations?ACCENTS / ENDINGS
  • LAIT est un institut de technologie
  • international dont la mission est de former des
    professionnels très qualifiés qui joueront un
    grand rôle dans le développement de la région
    Asie-Pacifique et de son intégration dans
    l'économie globale.

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Vocabularygrammatical words
  • LAIT est un institut de technologie
    international dont la mission est de former des
    professionnels très qualifiés qui joueront un
    grand rôle dans le développement de la région
    Asie- Pacifique et de son intégration dans
    l'économie globale.

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Can you guess the meaning of
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Answer
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Your teachers advice
  • Try to focus on mastering grammatical words
    because they are the most frequent words in the
    language and provide the link between the
    vocabulary words. Due to their complexity, you
    need a teacher to guide you.
  • Dont focus too much on vocabulary words because
    those words can be easily find in dictionaries.
    You dont need a teacher to increase your
    vocabulary.

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French LanguageLe français
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  • French pronunciation

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Some differences with English
  • 1. Intonation or word stress doesnt matter
  • 2. Length of vowels doesnt matter
  • 3. French vowels makes no voice variation
  • 4. French consonants are harder

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Final consonants are silent
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Except r , l and sometimes -s
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Final e is silentIt is there to pronounce the
final consonant
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  • VOWELS

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6 vowels from the alphabet
  • A B C D E F G H I
  • J K L M N O P Q R
  • S T U V W X Y Z

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5 basic sounds
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You can have 2 vowels following each
otherPronounce them both.
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The 5 basic vowels can go through 3 types of
transformations
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1st transformationIf you add i or u to a/e/o you
get a new sound
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2nd transformation add accents on top of the
vowel
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2nd transformation add accents on top of the
vowel
Accents are not apostrophe!
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Summery1 sound vowels
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Summery2 sounds vowels
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Summery1 sound but ? forms
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3rd transformation add n/m after the vowel to
get a nose sound
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i nasal
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  • Consonants

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Alphabet (letters similar to English)
  • A B C D E F G H I
  • J K L M N O P Q R
  • S T U V W X Y Z

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Alphabet (letters with the sound -é)
  • A B C D E F G H I
  • J K L M N O P Q R
  • S T U V W X Y Z

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Alphabet (letters with the sound -a)
  • A B C D E F G H I
  • J K L M N O P Q R
  • S T U V W X Y Z

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Alphabet (letters with the sound -i)
  • A B C D E F G H I
  • J K L M N O P Q R
  • S T U V W X Y Z

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Alphabet (letters with the sound -u)
  • A B C D E F G H I
  • J K L M N O P Q R
  • S T U V W X Y Z

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Alphabet (others)
  • A B C D E F G H I
  • J K L M N O P Q R
  • S T U V W X Y Z

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Acronymes et sigles
  • ADN - AIT BMW - CIA
  • CDRom - CV - DVD - VIH
  • ONG OGM QI - SOS TVA USA VHS OTAN
    RSVP IBM - TIC ISO
  • http .fr - .be - .ca

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Spelling names A comme Animal
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Consonants with 2 sounds
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H is silent
  • Hôpital
  • Hôtel
  • Humble
  • Harmonie

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Other specific letters
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Rare consonants
  • K W X Y Z

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French likes to haveDouble consonants e
  • ette - esse elle enne - erre
  • trompette cigarette toilette
  • omelette baguette squelette
  • presse adresse - femelle
  • guerre terre - antenne - italienne

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2 phenomenon in front of a vowel
  • - Liaison (links)
  • - Apostrophe

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Liaisons (sound link)In front of a word starting
by a vowel
  • excellent / article
  • excellent_article
  • Read excellen-tar-ticle

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Apostrophe(to replace final -e)
  • Gramatical words le / je / de / te / me / que
  • drop their -e in front of a vowel
  • je arrive jarrive (I arrive)
  • le éléphant léléphant (the elephant)
  • de Italie dItalie (from Italy)
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