Do you know your Harry Potter Basics?

Today one of my Harry Potter workshops is starting (if you don't know what I'm talking about, check out the Sacramento or San Francisco page) and I thought it would be appropriate to practice our French today with a little Harry Potter. So, we're returning to TV5. Yup, I told you that website was a great resource!

Under their "jeunesse" (youth) section they have a fairly simply Harry Potter quiz. But to get it right you'll not only have to know your Harry Potter and your basic French vocab, you'll also need to know your Harry Potter vocab. What do you think? Think you can ace this simple little quiz? Give it a try and let me know how you do!

 

 

Haven't checked out Harry Potter in French? You should!

 

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TV5 Conjugating Verbs 2

Conjugating in neat little exercises and tables is helpful, but that's not really the goal. What counts is being able to conjugate verbs in real sentences – in the context of actually expressing something.

In this previous post we looked at a verb conjugating game at TV5 which offers drills in verb conjugation. There's another similar game at TV5 which is a harder, but also far closer to real-life use of the language.

TV5 Conjugaison en contexte

 

In this game you are given sentences with one verb left in the infinitive. It is up to you to determine the correct tense, mood, and subject and to conjugate the verb accordingly. At the end you'll get a printable scorecard like this:

A few things to know about this game:

– It's pretty hard; even at the easiest level you'll be expected to conjugate the conditional and the subjunctive. (At the harder levels, the verbs themselves get harder – more irregular.)

-As you can tell from my results, a missed accent will make your answer wrong. I just accepted this and personally count these answers as correct since it can be difficult to type the accents with an American keyboard.

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So, did you try it? How'd you do?

TV5 Conjugating Verbs 1

-"She glow with happiness."

-"No, we glows with happiness or maybe they glows with happiness."

If you think that "sound" bad, just wait 'til you start working with more than just the present tense! Verb conjugation, it matters.

TV⁵MONDE  – a French-language television network – offers some excellent, free, language learning resources on its website. Today I would like to highlight one of the verb conjugation games. This game, "Conjugaison", tests verb conjugation the way it is taught in school – as a drill. In this game you are given a verb, a mood, a tense, and a subject and are then asked to conjugate the verb.

It's fairly advanced because even at the easy levels you will be expected to know the conditional as well as the indicative and both irregular and regular verbs, but it is great practice and at the end of each round you get a printable scorecard which makes it very easy to see what mistakes you made and why. Voilà! Instant study guide!

Check it out and let me know how you did!

Conjugaison (sans contexte)