French 2, Semester 2; Le Transport

Sections:

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

Section Two:

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

Section Two - Part A L'heure When you want to ask about airplane or train schedules, you will need to remember how to ask about the time. Regarde et écoute: Quelle heure est-il? --Il est deux heures. A quelle heure est le train de Nice? --Le train est à vingt heures.     Quelle heure est-il? What time is it? asks what time it is now. À quelle heure...? asks at what time something happens. Look at these clocks below. Ask what time it is and then answer it as if you were the second person in a conversation. Click on the time to see if you are correct.   Quelle heure est-il? Quelle heure est-il? Quelle heure est-il? Quelle heure est-il? 2:10 3:20 5:40 7:50 Il est deux heures dix. Il est trois heures vingt. Il est cinq heures quarante. Il est sept heures cinquante.   Now, on these, ask at what time the train from Nice comes. À quelle heure est le train de Nice? À quelle heure est le train de Nice? À quelle heure est le train de Nice? À quelle heure est le train de Nice? 2:15 3:30 5:15 7:30 Le train est à deux heures et quart. Le train est à trois heures et demie. Le train est à cinq heures et quart. Le train est à sept heures et demie.   Remember that to add the minutes to an hour, if it is up to the thirty minute mark, we simply say the number of minutes. 3:10 Il est trois heures dix. Beyond the thirty-minute mark, there are really two ways. We can go to the closest hour and subtract minutes, or we can use the entire number. 3:40 Il est quatre heures moins vingt . Il est trois heures quarante. Quand tu arrives... Quand tu arrives à la ville que tu vas visiter, tu vas avoir besoin du transport local si tu ne connais personne dans cette ville. Il y a quelques options. Tu peux aller.... en taxi en bus en métro Et bien sûr, tu peux marcher. Si tu as beaucoup de valises, ce n'est pas une très bonne idée parce que ton hôtel peut être est loin. Comment est-ce que tu préfères aller à l'hôtel quand tu arrives à ta destination? Il y a aussi d'autres formes de transport public: en bâteau à vélo en moto en train Le Metro The Paris subway system, le Métro, opened July19, 1900. The first line went from Porte de Vincennes to Porte Maillot. You won't be surprised to learn that that is la ligne 1 (line number 1). If you've been to Paris, you've surely seen the Art Nouveau-style entrances. The architect was Hector Guimard. The Métro system now has 199 km (124 miles) of track and 13 lines plus four RER lines (these go to the suburbs). There are 368 stations with 3,500 cars transporting about 6 million people per day. On the map, you can see lines of different colors. That's how you orient yourself in the system. Click here to see a bigger version of this map. Line 1 crosses Paris east-west at a bit of a diagonal. It goes between the Château de Vincennes and the Grande Arche de la Défense. Click on Ligne 1. You can see all the stops along the way and any transfers you can make from those stops. Say you were at the Gare de Lyon and you wanted to go to Père Lachaise, a very famous cemetary where many famous people are buried. You would take Ligne 1 direction Grande Arche de la Défense (it's important to go the right way!), get off at Ch. de Gaulle-Etoile and take Ligne 2 and get off at Père Lachaise. As long as you know the direction you're going in, you follow the ligne in that direction and find the stop to either get off or transfer at. You try it now. Devoir Look at the map of the Paris subway system map. Choose one of these destinations from Bastille. Tell your teacher how you would navigate the Métro to get to: Pigalle Le Musée d'Orsay L'Opéra Got to Writing 2A to turn in this assignment. Ce devoir vaut 12 points. Avance à la Partie B.

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