Tutorial
French Past Tenses: Short Spoken Accounts
Learn to tell short stories about past events in French by combining the passé composé and imparfait with sequence markers.
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Tutorial
French Past Tenses: Short Spoken Accounts
Learn to tell short stories about past events in French by combining the passé composé and imparfait with sequence markers.
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34 CardsLesson#1
Now that you can form the passé composé and use a little imparfait, it's time to combine them to tell short stories about the past. In this deck, you'll learn how to structure a simple account of a past event, like what you did last weekend.
Lesson#2
To tell a story in order, you need sequence markers. These are simple words that signal the order of events. In French, the most common ones are: 'd’abord' for first, 'ensuite' or 'puis' for then, 'après' for after, and 'enfin' for finally.
Quiz#3
What's a common French word for 'firstly' or 'to begin with' when telling a story?
d'abord
Quiz#4
What's a common French word for 'then' or 'next' when listing events in order?
ensuite
Quiz#5
What's another common French word for 'then' that you can use in a story?
puis
Quiz#6
What's the French word for 'after' or 'afterwards'?
après
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