Transcript PROMENADES - Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy

Point de départ
You’ve learned how the passé composé can express
past actions. Now you’ll learn another past tense, the
imparfait (imperfect).
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The imparfait can be translated several ways into English.
Americans often use would when the imperfect is required.
Je portais toujours ma robe préférée à lécole.
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I would wear my favorite dress to school
I used to wear my favorite dress to school.
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The imparfait is used to talk about actions that took
place repeatedly or habitually during an unspecified
period of time.
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The imparfait is a simple tense, which means that it does
not require an auxiliary verb. To form the imparfait, drop
the -ons ending from the nous form of the present tense
and replace it with these endings.
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The imparfait is used for description, often with the verb
être, which is irregular in this tense.
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Verbs whose infinitives end in -ger add an e before all
endings of the imparfait except in the nous and vous
forms. Verbs whose infinitives end in -cer change c to ç
before all endings except in the nous and vous forms.
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Note that the nous and vous forms of infinitives ending
in -ier contain a double i in the imparfait.
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Note the imperfect forms of these expressions.
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Essayez!
Choisissez la réponse correcte pour
compléter les phrases.
1. Muriel (louait /louais) un
appartement en ville.
2. Rodrigue (partageait /
partagiez) une chambre avec
un autre étudiant.
5. Il (neigeait /fallait) mettre le
chauffage (heat) quand il
(faisaient /faisait) froid.
6. Qu’est-ce que tu (faisait /
faisais) dans le couloir?
3. Nous (payait /payions) notre
loyer une fois par mois.
7. Vous (aimiez /aimaient)
beaucoup le quartier?
4. Il y (avait /était) des balcons
au premier étage.
8. Nous (étaient /étions) trois
dans le petit studio.
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