LESSON NOTES

Lower Intermediate S1 #7
Drop the Spoon Slowly and Move
Away from the Ice Cream!

CONTENTS
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French
English
Vocabulary
Sample Sentences
Grammar

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FRENCH
1.

Psycho Caro:

Regardez le miroir, qui voyez-vous ?

2.

Whiner Peter:

Ben, moi. Je vois une personne ordinaire.

3.

Psycho Caro:

Cest un bon dbut. Continuez.

4.

Whiner Peter:

Je suis de taille moyenne et solitaire.

5.

Psycho Caro:

Vous ne vous jugez pas bien.

6.

Whiner Peter:

Je suis mystrieux et secret. Je nai aucun intrt !

7.

Psycho Caro:

Bien sr que non, vous tes juste un grincheux et un peu

malheureux !

ENGLISH
1.

Psycho Caro:

Look in the mirror, whom do you see?

2.

Whiner Peter:

Me. I see an ordinary person.

3.

Psycho Caro:

Its a good start. Go on.

4.

Whiner Peter:

Im average height and lonely.

5.

Psycho Caro:

You dont judge yourself well.

6.

Whiner Peter:

Im mysterious and secretive. I dont raise any interest!

7.

Psycho Caro:

Of course not, you are just a whiner and a bit unhappy!

VOCABULARY
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English

C lass

Ge nde r

juste

just

adjective

aucun

any

pronoun

malheureux

unhappy

adjective

masculine

miroir

mirror

noun

masculine

voir

to see

verb

dbut

beginning

noun

masculine

taille

size, height

noun

feminine

moyenne

average

noun

feminine

solitaire

solitaire

adjective

intrt

interest

mystrieux

mysterious

adjective

masculine

secret

secret

noun

masculine

se juger

to judge oneself

verb

SAMPLE SENTENCES
J'ai juste deux euros.

L'accident est juste arriv.

"I just have two euros."

"The accident just happened."

Je n'ai aucun soucis.

Mon fils est malheureux d'avoir perdu son

chat.

"I don't have any concern."

"My son is unhappy to have lost his

cat."
Miroir, beau miroir, dis-moi que je suis la
plus belle.

Tu vois la Tour Eiffel?

"Do you see the Eiffel Tower?"

"Mirror, beautiful mirror, tell me that I

am the most beautiful."
Vous voyez la colline ?

Le dbut de la fin est proche.

"Do you see the hill?"

"The beginning of the end is near."

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Ma taille de chaussure est du quarantedeux.

Le revenu des mnages de cet tat est

proche de la moyenne nationale.

"My shoe size is 42."

"The household income in this state

is close to the national average."

Lui, c'est un ver solitaire.

Le mystrieux projet.

"Him, he is a lonely person." (literally

"un ver solitaire" is tapeworm)

"The mysterious project."

Ils ont des rendez-vous secrets depuis des

mois.

Quel est le secret de la vie?

"What is the secret of life?"

"They've been having secret

appointments for months."
Giselle est une fille sympa, tu l'as mal juge.

"Gisele is nice girl, you didn't judge her well."

GRAMMAR
Bon vs. Bien
People often confuse bon and bien because they both have positive meanings and can be
adjectives, adverbs, or nouns.
1. The adjective bon- Bon is most commonly an adjective. It modifies a noun. For example:
A.
B.
C.
D.

Il est bon tudiant. "He is a good student."

J'ai pass une bonne soire. "I had a nice evening."
C'est bon! "It's good!" (When speaking about food)
Il est bon aux checs. "He is good at playing chess." (speaking of ability)

2. Adverb of manner: bien- You will most often find bien as an adverb modifying a verb. It
means "well" and tells the manner in which someone does something. For example:
A.
B.
C.

Il a bien dessin. "He drew well."

Il se porte bien. "He is in good health."
Il joue bien aux checs. "He plays well at chess."

BUT...

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You may also use bien as an adjective.

Examples:
A.
B.

Il est bien. (comme personne) "He is nice." (as a person)

C'est bien! "It's nice!" (when giving praise about something well done)

You may use bon as an adverb.

Example:
A.

a sent bon! "It smells good!"

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