Pour le 9 mai, 2019

Bonjour à tous!
here is what we discussed last week.  For this Thursday, we will continue to have classmates recount their travel stories, in order to use vocabulary and also prepositions with geographic expressions.
We will also review how to use qui, que, and dont, our ever popular relative pronouns...
Want to know what happens in L'Ecole des Femmes?  We will continue it with summaries and essential exerpts. Feel free to finish the play (and even to read it in English, if you'd like!)
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Les expressions géographiques (suite)

City names have no gender, so always use à + city name if you are going to that city.

            Examples- je vais à Paris, à Londres, à Lisbonne

Coming from that city?  Use de/d’ + city name

            Je (re)viens de Paris, de Londres, de Los Angeles

City names with gender markers:

            Le Havre                     le Caire                        la Nouvelle Orléans

            La Paz                                     Les Andelys (une ville en Normandie)

In these cases, you must combine the à and the article - Je vais au Havre, au Caire, aux Andelys, à la Nouvelle Orléans – and of course the de + article for from – Je suis du Havre, du Caire, des Andelys, de la Nouvelle Orléans

D’autres choses:

English	French
New York	New York
New York state	l’état de Washington
Washington, DC	Washington
Washington state	l’état de Washington
Mexico City	Mexico
Mexico (the country)	le Mexique
Brussels	Bruxelles
Lisbon	Lisbonne
New Orleans	la Nouvelle Orléans
D’autres expressions
right now	actuellement
actually	en fait, à vrai dire
especially	surtout
to take care of, be in charge of	s’occuper de
to clean (like with soap and water)	nettoyer (je nettoie, nous nettoyons)
a host family	une famille d’accueil