Title: Reading Guide
1Reading Guide
2Lets try to read some French!What are your
observations?
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- 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.
3What are your observations?ACCENTS / ENDINGS
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- 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.
4Vocabularygrammatical 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.
5Can you guess the meaning of
6Answer
7Your 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.
8French LanguageLe français
9 10Some 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
11Final consonants are silent
12Except r , l and sometimes -s
13Final e is silentIt is there to pronounce the
final consonant
14 156 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
165 basic sounds
17You can have 2 vowels following each
otherPronounce them both.
18The 5 basic vowels can go through 3 types of
transformations
191st transformationIf you add i or u to a/e/o you
get a new sound
202nd transformation add accents on top of the
vowel
212nd transformation add accents on top of the
vowel
Accents are not apostrophe!
22Summery1 sound vowels
23Summery2 sounds vowels
24Summery1 sound but ? forms
253rd transformation add n/m after the vowel to
get a nose sound
26i nasal
27 28Alphabet (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
29Alphabet (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
30Alphabet (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
31Alphabet (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
32Alphabet (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
33Alphabet (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
34Acronymes 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
35Spelling names A comme Animal
36Consonants with 2 sounds
37H is silent
- Hôpital
- Hôtel
- Humble
- Harmonie
38Other specific letters
39Rare consonants
40French likes to haveDouble consonants e
- ette - esse elle enne - erre
- trompette cigarette toilette
- omelette baguette squelette
- presse adresse - femelle
- guerre terre - antenne - italienne
412 phenomenon in front of a vowel
- - Liaison (links)
- - Apostrophe
42Liaisons (sound link)In front of a word starting
by a vowel
- excellent / article
- excellent_article
- Read excellen-tar-ticle
43Apostrophe(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)