Bon Voyage Chapitre 4 – La Famille et La Maison
Chapter 4 is about family, pets, the neighborhood (houses, apartments, things in & around them), prepositions, the important verb avoir, possessive adjectives, & the irregular adjectives beau, nouveau, & vieux.
Read through this information, and click on the links under les jeux (games) for activities like flashcards, matching…all sorts of things!
MOTS 1- La Famille – (Visit this link: “La Famille” for more vocab and info, remember how they express relations between family members)
la mère le père la sœur le frère la demi-soeur le demi-frère
le beau-frère la belle-soeur (beau/belle are step-relations, and demi are half-relations)
la fille le fils le mari la femme le beau-père la belle-mère
l’oncle la tante la nièce le neveu
le cousin la cousine les cousins les cousines
la grand-mère le grand-père la petite-fille le petit-fils
There are several ways of showing relationships between family members. You could call your uncle – “My uncle” or “The brother of my mother”
Here are some games to review family relations: “Help Jean-Luc figure out his family tree”
les animaux domestiques
le chien – dog le chiot – puppy l’oiseau – bird le cochon-dinde – guinea pig le serpent – snake
le chat – cat le chaton – kitten le poisson rouge – goldfish le lapin – bunny (you don’t need to know all of these!)
La fête et les Anniversaires
C’est quand, ton anniversaire? Ah, mon anniversaire?! C’est le premier janvier!
When is your birthday? Oh, my birthday?! It’s January 1st!
un anniversaire– a birthday un cadeau– a gift un gateau– a cake une bougie– a candle donner une fête– to throw a party inviter des amis– to invite friends
Des Jeux (games)
Quizlet family vocab flashcards as well as scatter and space-race
Link to some family games and practice with ages
Link to games/practice with animals (pets here, more animals here) (some we went over, some we didn’t, and we covered others as well- still fun to play)
MOTS 2- La Maison et Les Immeubles –
| Français | Anglais |
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| une pièce |  a room |
| une salle de séjour | a living room |
| une cuisine | a kitchen |
| une salle à manger | a dining room |
| une chambre à coucher | a bedroom |
| une salle de bains | a bathroom |
| des toilettes | the bathroom, toilets |
| une maison | a house |
| un appartement | an appartement |
| un immeuble | an apartment building |
| un quartier | a neighborhood, district |
| une station de métro | a metro station |
| une terrasse | a terrace, patio |
| un jardin | a garden, yard |
| un arbre | a tree |
| une fleur | a flower |
| un garage | a garage |
| une voiture | a car |
| un balcon | a balcony |
| une vue | a view |
| le rez-de-chaussée | the ground floor |
| un étage | a floor |
| un escalier | a staircase |
| un ascenseur | an elevator |
| un entrée | an entrance |
| un code | a code |
| une cour | a courtyard |
| un voisin/une voisine |
a neighbor |
| beau* | handsome |
| belle* | beautiful |
| nouveau, nouvelle* | new |
| vieux, vieille* | old |
| premier, première | first |
| deuxième | second |
| troisième | third |
| près de | close to |
| loin de | far from |
| donner sur | to face, overlook |
| monter | to go up |
| monter à pied | to go up on foot |
| monter en ascenseur | to go up in the elevator |
| une journée | a day |
| tout le monde | everybody |
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**see irregular adjectives below for more information**
La maison-( Mots 2) study rooms in the house (know how to spell these), and all vocabulary relating to houses and apartments, neighborhoods, etc…
la salle un quartier un appartement une maison
la chambre la salle de bains les toilettes le quartier la cour un ascenseur (etc…)
Les prépositions– Watch this fun video on prepositions! (Ch. 4 tests includes them, except for entre, la-bas, & ici, but you do need to also know near/far/around)
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Des Jeux (games)
Mots 2 vocab flashcards and more
Rooms in the house vocab and games
GRAMMAR: the irregular verb avoir – “to have”
j’ai (I have) nous avons (we have)
tu as (you have) vous avez (you (all) have)(you have (formal))
il*/elle*/on a (he has) ils/elles ont (they have)(masculine or mixed group/feminine)
(she has/one has)
*il could be a noun like “le garage” (le garage a une porte = the garage has a door), or elle like “la maison” (la maison a trois pièces)
Avoir is an important irregular verb (meaning you must memorize all its different forms). Read on for more information about its many uses in French.
(Practice your knowledge of avoir with this quiz)
Expressions with Avoir
Avoir is used in a number of idiomatic expressions, many of which are translated by the English verb “to be”:
J’ai 30 ans
I am 30 years old
Il y a…
There is/are…
avoir __#__ ans = to be _#_ years old
il y a = there is, there are
avoir … we will resume going over the avoir expressions from the packet in following chapters!
AVOIR SONGS!
Here is a link where you can hear a song to the the tune of the Pink Panther soundtrack. Sing it in your head to help you learn the conjugation!
You could also listen to Etienne’s song Avoir II, which helps with the conjugation, but may be a little overwhelming (it’s a techno-y fast song)
Here are a few example sentences using the verb avoir:
Quel âge as-tu? J’ai quinze (treize, dix-sept, etc…) ans.
(How old are you?) (I am fifteen (13, 17, etc…) years old.)
Tu as des sœurs ou des frères? Non, je n’ai pas de sœur ou de frère.
Do you have any sisters or brothers? No, I don’t have a sister or a brother (or any sisters or any brothers)
GRAMMAR- Les Adjectifs Possessifs – (possessive adjectives)
In English, we use possessive adjectives to show ownership: my, your, his, her, our, their
In French, possessive adjectives change based on the object being possessed. Remember:
it’s not who is doing the possessing, it’s what is being possessed.
Read here for more info!
GRAMMAR- Les Adjectifs Irréguliers (adjectives, including the irregular adjectives vieux, nouveau, and beau and all their forms!)
Read here for more info. ou need to know what all of the following mean and how they change, depending on the noun they are modifying:
jeune, vieux (and all the other forms), joli(e), moche, petit(e), grand(e), nouveau (and all the other forms), & beau (and all the other forms)
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beau bel |
handsome |
| belle | beautiful |
| nouveau, nouvelle | new |
| vieux, vieille | old |
| masculine singular | masculine singular, starts with a vowel | masculine plural | feminine singular | feminine plural |
| beau | bel | beaux | belle | belles |
| (all forms of beautiful/handsome) | ||||
| nouveau | nouvel | nouveaux | nouvelle | nouvelles |
| (all forms of new) | ||||
| vieux | vieil | vieux | vieille | vieille |
| (all forms of old) |
**Remember you will be given the chart, you have to remember how to apply them!** (for your final exam you will probably have to memorize them, but Mlle. is being kind)
Des Jeux (some random games)
Spelling counts- Play this review game to help!
Final review game (like Jeopardy), which includes great practice with those irregular adjectives! : Chapter 4 review game
Last, but not least, the book site!
Here is the book’s site with some activities and games, and practice quizzes.