French I, Semester 2; Les Endroits
Sections:

Introduction  |   Section 1  |   Section 2  |   Section 3   |   Dictionaries

  Section One:

Part A  |   Part B  |   Part C  |   Part D  |   Part E  |   Part F  

Section One - Part D

PresentationDans une ville
View the presentation to see how you can talk about where the places in your town are in relationship with other places in your town.

Can you identify?
See if you can accurately identify these new vocabulary words based on what you viewed. Click on the word to hear the pronunciation and on the arrow to see the translation.

près de    
loin de    
à droite de    
à gauche de    
à côté de    


Au Travail Graded Assignment
Answer the following questions about the location of these places in your own town with respect to your own house. The first one is done for you. This assignment is worth 16 points.

  1. Où est la piscine? La piscine est près de ma maison.
  2. Où est le cinéma?
  3. Où est l'école?
  4. Où est le supermarché?
  5. Où est la boulangerie?
  6. Où est la poste?
  7. Où est la pâtisserie?
  8. Où est la boucherie?


Key ConceptDe la or du


L'école est près de la piscine.
L'école est près du café.

By this point, you might already realize why there are such differences as what we see in these two examples and what you viewed in presentation at the top of this page. If the noun is preceded by "la", we will need to say "de la" but if it is preceded by "le," we will say "du." This is a contraction in French. Say that the following are far from the other place shown. If the noun begins with a vowel, we use "de l'".

l'hôpital/l'école
le restaurant/le café
le cinéma/l'école
la boucherie/le cinéma
la boulangerie/la pâtisserie
la campagne/la ville

 

Let's summarize that:

de + la Arrow de la

de + l' Arrow de l'

de + le arrow du

Avance à la Partie E.

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