In the classroom Lesson 20 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Your pencil case, une trousse, holds the first French words you will use every day: un stylo (a pen), un crayon (a pencil), une gomme (a rubber) and une règle (a ruler). 1 Watch the traps: un crayon is a pencil, not a wax crayon, une gomme is a rubber, not chewing gum, and une trousse is a pencil case, not trousers. 2 The teacher gives orders with vous because she is talking to the whole class: écoutez (listen), regardez (look), levez la main (put your hand up), asseyez-vous (sit down). 3 Picture Ethan in Cardiff hearing Levez la main ! and standing up: levez-vous means stand up, but levez la main only asks for your hand. 4 Saying Je ne comprends pas (I don't understand) is smart, not silly: every language learner needs it, together with Comment dit-on... en français ? (How do you say... in French?). 5 une gomme ("GOMM") is a rubber or eraser; chewing gum is un chewing-gum. 7 Je peux aller aux toilettes, s'il vous plaît ? means "May I go to the toilet, please?"; toilettes is plural in French. 8 Classroom orders use vous: écoutez (listen), regardez (look), levez la main (put your hand up), levez-vous (stand up), asseyez-vous (sit down). 9 Je ne comprends pas means "I don't understand"; Vous pouvez répéter, s'il vous plaît ? means "Can you repeat, please?" 11 Young children in France call their primary teacher la maîtresse (a woman) or le maître (a man); older pupils say madame or monsieur. 12 un cahier ("ka-YAY") is an exercise book; the h is silent; un livre is a book you read. 13 Little phrases help you speak French every lesson: J'ai fini ! (I've finished!), C'est facile (it's easy), C'est difficile (it's hard). 14 Teacher comments: Très bien ! (very good), Bravo ! (well done), Excellent ! (excellent), Attention ! (careful). 15 des ciseaux ("see-ZOH") are scissors and are plural, as in English; la colle is glue and une règle is a ruler. 16 une trousse ("TROOSS") is a pencil case; inside you might find a taille-crayon (a sharpener). ← previous At the café: ordering in Frenchnext → My house and my home↑ back to French This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/20-in-the-classroom/