Learn how to fish for information about a third person, including what that person does for a living
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Intro |
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| Virginie: Bonjour tout le monde! Hello, everyone. |
| Eric: How To Bring Home the Bacon in French. What are we looking at in this lesson? |
| Virginie: Well, in this lesson, you will learn how to ask about what a third person does. |
| Eric: Sarah and Rob are now going to a party at Sarah's friend Jules. |
| Virginie: Right. And Rob asks questions about him. |
| Eric: He's probably curious of how the party is going to be. |
| Virginie: So Sarah and Rob are going to speak informal French for our dialogue. |
| Eric: Okay so, let's begin this conversation. |
Lesson conversation |
| Rob: Il habite où, Jules? |
| Sarah: Il habite à Montparnasse. |
| Rob: Et qu’est-ce qu’il fait? |
| Sarah: Il est interprète. |
| Rob: Il parle anglais? |
| Sarah: Oui, il parle anglais et…russe! |
| Eric: One more time with the translation. |
| Rob: Il habite où, Jules? |
| Eric: Where does Jules live? |
| Sarah: Il habite à Montparnasse. |
| Virginie: He lives in Montparnasse. |
| Rob: Et qu’est-ce qu’il fait? |
| Eric: And what does he do? |
| Sarah: Il est interprète. |
| Virginie: He is an interpreter. |
| Rob: Il parle anglais? |
| Eric: Does he speak English? |
| Sarah: Oui, il parle anglais et…russe! |
| Virginie: Yes he speaks English and…Russian! |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Eric: Wow. So is this a party dinner party that they're going to? |
| Virginie: Yes Jules, Sarah's friend, will probably cook a delicious dinner. |
| Eric: The French enjoy inviting people over for dinner. |
| Virginie: Yes, they like the quiet, private space of an apartment. |
| Eric: And home-made meals. |
| Virginie: By the way, Eric, did you know the in the XVIIIth century the French aristocracy would have 12-hour long meals. |
| Eric: I didn't know that. That's pretty excessive. |
| Virginie: Yes and it's because they would present all the dishes one by one, and they would comment on them, et cetera. |
| Eric: So Virginie, have you had any 12-hour meals? |
| Virginie: I've experienced quite long family meals! |
| Eric: Virginie, is an aristocrat. |
| Virginie: Actually my grandma would love to hear that. |
| Eric: Is she a royalist? |
| Virginie: Believe it or not! They still exist1 |
| Eric: But only in Virginie's family. |
| Virginie: More seriously though, today, the French have 30 minute lunches just like everyone else. |
| Eric: What a shame. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Eric: Well, let's take a look at some of the vocabulary we have. What do we have first? |
| Virginie: Où [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Where. |
| Virginie: Où [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Où [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next. |
| Virginie: Il [natural native speed] |
| Eric: He. |
| Virginie: Il [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Il [natural native speed] |
| Eric: And then. |
| Virginie: Elle [natural native speed] |
| Eric: She. |
| Virginie: Elle [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Elle [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next. |
| Virginie: Un interprète [natural native speed] |
| Eric: An interpreter. |
| Virginie: Un interprète [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Un interprète [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next. |
| Virginie: Russe [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Russian. |
| Virginie: Russe [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Russe [natural native speed] |
| Eric: And finally. |
| Virginie: Anglais(e) [natural native speed] |
| Eric: English. |
| Virginie: Anglais(e) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Anglais(e) [natural native speed] |
| KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES |
| Eric: Okay, so what is our vocabulary today? |
| Virginie: Well we don't have much to cover today since most words have already been learned. |
| Eric: Okay. But what do we have that's new? What about Montparnasse? |
| Virginie: Montparnasse is a neighborhood in Paris. |
| Eric: Right. And that's in the 6th arrondissement right? |
| Virginie: Yes, it's on the left bank of the river la Seine. |
| Eric: And what is it known for? |
| Virginie: Montparnasse used to be the meeting place for intellectuals and artists. |
| Eric: Oh, like Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir. |
| Virginie: They used to meet there. And they will meet in cafes to discuss philosophy and politics. |
| Eric: Right, okay. I've been to one of them. The cafe de flore. |
| Virginie: That's a lovely cafe on the Boulevard Saint-Germain, it's right by Montparnasse. |
| Eric: But the coffee is really expensive there. |
| Virginie: Yes, I know, you also pay for the history of the place. That's why. |
| Eric: Okay. Well, Montparnasse is also a really big shopping area. |
| Virginie: Yes. For example, la rue de rennes, Rennes' street has some great stores. |
| Eric: And there's also a really large building. |
| Virginie: Yes, we are proud of it, la tour Montparnasse, the Montparnasse Tower. It's the tallest skyscraper in Paris. |
| Eric: So la tour Montparnasse is 210 meters high, and that's like 689 feet. |
| Virginie: Yes. And also, if you like theatre, you definitely need to go to Montparnasse. |
| Eric: Where exactly? |
| Virginie: Rue de la Gaite, also known as la rue des theatres, the theatre street. |
| Eric: And it's beautiful too. |
| Virginie: And after a good play you can enjoy wine and cheese in one of the numerous brasseries in the neighborhood. |
| Eric: So remember, Montparnasse is a great place to go! |
| Virginie: Now before we get the grammar point I would like to share a phrase with you |
| Eric: Okay. |
| Virginie: Its' ""on se fait une bouffe."" |
| Eric: And that literally means, ""let's gather to eat."" |
| Virginie: Yes it's (very slowly) On se fait une bouffe. |
| Eric: Literally that means, let's make some food. The first word ""on"" stands for we. |
| Virginie: And then the two words, se fait are literally ""make ourselves"" |
| Eric: And the finally ""une boufffe"" is slang for ""a meal"", or ""food"". |
| Virginie: So again it is, on se fait une bouffe? |
| Eric: Let's make ourselves a meal? |
| Virginie: Now, what about our grammar point? |
Lesson focus |
| Eric: So our focus today is on the third person. |
| Virginie: Yes Rob is invited to Sarah's friend dinner party. |
| Eric: And he wants to know a little about him. |
| Virginie: So he asked Sarah, ""il habite ou? Where does he live? |
| Eric: You recognized the verb ""habiter,"" to live. |
| Virginie: And the word ou, ""where."" |
| Eric: Now we have a new word which is il. |
| Virginie: Which means he in English. |
| Eric: So we're saying, ""Where does he live?"" |
| Virginie: Il habite ou? |
| Eric: Or for the female, we can say? |
| Virginie: Elle habite où, ""elle"" is a she. |
| Eric: So where does she live? |
| Virginie: Tout a fait. Absolutely. |
| Eric: Okay that's easy. Now Rob also wants to know what Jules does. |
| Virginie: Yes he asked ""qu'est-ce qu'il fait?"" |
| Eric: So you probably recognized ""qu'est-ce qu."" |
| Virginie: And qu'est-ce que remember is what in French. |
| Eric: And then we have ""il fait? Qu'est-ce qu'il fait?"" |
| Virginie: Yes. You just need to know that the ""e"" at the end of qu'est-ce que just dropped. |
| Eric: And this is going to be replaced by an apostrophe. |
| Virginie: And that's because il and elle start with a vowel. |
| Eric: So the silent e drops in this case. |
| Virginie: Right. Okay, now it's time to take a look at the conjugation of the verb faire, to do. |
| Eric: The last time we saw ""tu fais"", you do. And that is spelled FAIS. |
| Virginie: And today we're seeing il or elle fait, he or she does. |
| Eric: And that's spelled ""fait."" |
| Virginie: Faire is an irregular verb. |
| Eric: So, let's see the first three singular pronouns with faire. |
| Virginie: Je fais. |
| Eric: Tu fais. |
| Virginie: Il fait and elle fait. |
| Eric: Great. Okay, one more time. |
| Virginie: Je fais. |
| Eric: Tu fais. |
| Virginie: Il fait and elle fait. |
| Eric: Okay great. |
Outro |
| Eric: Well I think we've just about done it for today. |
| Virginie: Oui, Eric. |
| Eric: And thank you very much for listening today. |
| Virginie: Thank you all. Bonne journee, have a great day! Bye-bye. |
| Eric: Bye. |
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