Copy of Week 15 Day 4: Adverbs – More Practice and Vocabulary About Sports
Today, we will be covering the following topics:
- More about adverbs
- Vocabulary related to sports
To kick off your lessons today, let’s review your knowledge about adverbs. In previous lessons, you learned how to form an adverb from an adjective, and also where to place the adverb in a sentence. This lesson will teach you more types of adverb and help you improve both your vocabulary and your grammar.
- First, let’s start with the comparative adverbs. You might have already seen them in the lesson about comparison, but let’s review.
Listen to Week 15 Day 4 Track 1
- plus … que (more…than/adj + er + than)
- moins … que (less…than)
- aussi … que (as…as)
Example: Je cours plus vite que lui. (I run faster than him.)
- In English classes, students are usually reminded that they should keep “than” in a comparison. In French, the same concept applies — never forget your “que” after the comparison word.
- There are also some special comparison adverbs that you need to remember:
Speaking Practice 1
Example:
Listen to Week 15 Day 4 Track 3
- Il a bien fait son devoir. (He has done his homework well.)
- Cet homme mange peu. (This man eats little./He’s a man of little appetite.)
- Il a mal fait son travail. (He has done his work badly.)
Dialogue :
Vocabulary – Sports
Now, let’s do something more entertaining today! Let’s talk about sport! Are you a fan of l’équipe de France with Mbappé and Griezmann, or do you follow Gaël Monfils and Jo-Wilfred Tsonga at Roland Garros? We will learn some vocabulary that will help you begin to discuss sports in French.
Here are the names of some common sports that you might practice:
Speaking Practice 2
- There are probably some words that you already know because they are similar to their English equivalent, but there are still two main points to learn:
- The pronunciation: The words are similar, but the French pronunciation is quite different. Listen to the audio to practice your pronunciation.
- The gender: When you learn a new word in French, learn it with the gender (masculine or feminine). Learn “la natation” all together instead of “natation” alone.
Next, we will become familiar with some verbs that can be used with sports.
Listen to Week 15 Day 4 Track 7
- Attention: We say “faire du sport” (a sport in general) and “jouer au football” or “jouer au tennis” (a particular sport).
- The verb “jouer” can be followed by different prepositions, depending on the situation. For example, you could say “jouer au football” (a sport or a game) or “jouer du piano” (a musical instrument)
Here are some useful vocabulary for discussing this topic with someone else:
Dialogue
A Quick Recap of this Lesson-
Un petit résumé de la leçon
Sharpen Your Knowledge with Exercises
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Answer the questions about the dialogue:
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Answer the questions about the dialogue: