Exam II Study Guide

Question 1

Finding out where someone is from

Answer 1

tu es d’où/ d’où êtes-vous?

• je suis de/du…
• je suis né(e) a…
• je viens…

Question 2

Finding out someones nationality

Answer 2

quelle est ta nationalité?
quelle votre nationalité? 
- je suis... 
- je suis d'origine... 
- je suis né(e)... 
- je suis de...

Question 3

Describing someone, their personality and their appearance

Answer 3

adjectives in french to describe someone or their appearance

• riche both masc and fem
• beau/ belle
• heureux- happy
• faible- weak
• actif- active
• grand/grande - large
• gros/grosse- fat
• jeune- young
• amusant- amusement
• méchant- mean
• mince- squinny
• pauvre- poor
• petit- small
• décontracté- lazy, relax
• fort- strong

Question 4

Forms of adjectives

Question 5

Asking yes/no questions with

Answer 5

est-ce que
examples: est-ce que petit?
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Question 6

Asking and telling time

Question 7

Talking about daily activities

Question 8

The verb avoir and common expressions using avoir

Question 9

Basic negation with ne..pas and ne..jamais

Question 10

Regular -er verbs

Question 11

Culture

- patrick flori

Answer 11

• French pop singer, was born patrick chouchayan in 1969 in marseille, to a franco-american father and a corsican mother. His first success was in 1998 with the song “belle” from the musical notre-dame de paris which he played the role of phoebus. has a song called “where i live.”

Question 12

Culture

- la colonization et l’immigration

Question 13

Culture

-le president de la république

Answer 13

President of France since 2017, Emmanuel Macron was born on December 21, 1977 in the northern region of France (amiens, picardy) At university, he studied philosophy and political science. He is married to brigitte trogneux, proffesor of classical letters. He is from the centrist political party and like many politicians, Macron is smart and ambitious, but also enthusiastic, young and handsome. He is the youngest french president in history.

Question 14

les bonne qualités d’un leader

Answer 14

The french expect their leaders to be

• honnête (honest)
• courageux (courageous)
• proche (close to the people)
• intègre (inegrated)
• cultivé (cultivated)
• réaliste (realistic)

Question 15

Les horaires des commerces

Answer 15

• Usually small independently owned stores close around noon for lunch break and then re-open at 2PM and stay open until 7-8PM. However more big stores in big cities like Paris stay open all day and some open everyday except sundays.
• La Journée continue: refers to stores being open all day including during lunchtime.
• Le repos dominical: rest day, where workers don’t work on sundays.

Question 16

Les sports en France

Question 17

Presidents of France

Answer 17

• Nicolas Sarkozy: his third wife was a french-italian singer and was nicknamed le président bling-bling and le président people because he was the first president to appear in the cover of the people magazine.
• François Hollande: left his longtime companion and mother of four children after having an affair, then he left that mistress for yet another woman during his presidency.
• Emmanuel Macron: met his wife who is older than him by more then 20 years in high school as a student.