French 2, Semester I; Les Animaux

Sections:

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

Section Two:

Part A |   Part B  |  Part C

Section Two: Part B Les Négatives You will remember how to make a sentence negative in French. We've been doing this for quite some time. Je ne nage pas. Tu n'étudies pas beaucoup. Nous ne dînons pas. The procedure for forming the negative is not going to change, but we need to add a new twist at this point. If we want to say that we do not have something, we will need to make a slight change. Look at these examples. J'ai un chat. Je n'ai pas de chien. Il a des livres. Il n'a pas de stylos. Vous avez une soeur. Vous n'avez pas de frères. When un, une, or des would naturally follow pas, we must change it to de or d'. Au Travail! In these examples, make the sentence to the left negative. Write this activity down in your notebook and when you have finished, you can click on the first column to see if you were right. J'ai un vélo. Je n'ai pas de vélo. Tu as une brosse à dents. Tu n'as pas de brosse à dents. Nous avons une serviette. Nous n'avons pas de serviette. Il a un séchoir à cheveux. Il n'a pas de séchoir à cheveux. Elles ont des peignes. Elles n'ont pas de peignes.   Practice Click here to practice this concept. Speedword Napoleon Bonaparte Though Corsica has many reasons to claim fame, perhaps one of the most celebrated is that the island was the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon was born in the Corsican city of Ajaccio. His name at birth was Napoleone Buonaparte but he later changed his name to a more French sounding name. Napoléon's family was of minor Corsican nobility. His father was an attorney in the court of Louis XVI. The greater influence in Napoléon's life was his mother, Maria Letizia Ramolino. She was believed to have been a woman ahead of her time--having her eight children bathe every other day at a time when even the wealthiest of people bathed only once a month. Napoléon learned to speak French before he entered school though people say that he spoke French with a very Italian accent throughout his life. Young Napoléon had his sights set on become a military leader and ruthlessly achieved that vision. Go on to Part C.

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