Free time, hobbies, sport and music
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Talking about hobbies
- Learn complete activity phrases: jouer au foot/tennis/basket, jouer de la guitare/du piano/de la batterie, faire de la natation/de la danse/de l’équitation and aller à la piscine. The named sport and instrument constructions are useful models, not rules covering every use of jouer.
- Swimming and dance use faire de in these expressions, while ordinary instrument playing uses jouer de. A musician’s role in an ensemble can involve other phrasing; use unambiguous examples when a question tests a basic preposition.
Choose the whole activity phrase
Contractions
- À plus le contracts to au, à plus les to aux, de plus le to du and de plus les to des. Keep à la/de la separate for feminine consonant-initial nouns.
- Before a vowel or silent h, à l’/de l’ can be required regardless of gender: aller à l’école, jouer de l’accordéon. Check the construction, article, number and initial sound rather than gender alone.
Contractions and elision
Other activities
- Lire, regarder la télé, écouter de la musique, jouer aux jeux vidéo and aller au cinéma mean read, watch television, listen to music, play video games and go to the cinema. These verbs distinguish the actual activities.
- Sortir avec mes amis means go out with my friends in this group context; do not infer a romantic relationship from that example. Use supplied or imagined hobbies rather than assuming access to particular equipment, venues or activities.
Distinguish leisure activities
Frequency
- Souvent, parfois and rarement mean often, sometimes and rarely. In Je ne joue jamais, ne…jamais means never. Toujours can mean always in a repeated routine but has other meanings, including still, in other contexts.
- Tous les week-ends means every weekend and le samedi can describe on Saturdays in a stated routine. None specifies an exact number of hours. Read the full sentence before concluding that low frequency means dislike or that a time word such as demain is a frequency.
Frequency in complete phrases
Opinions
- J’aime, j’adore, je préfère, je n’aime pas and je déteste express different strengths of preference. Parce que introduces a reason: Je préfère chanter parce que j’aime la musique.
- C’est amusant gives a general judgement; cette activité est amusante agrees with feminine activité. Ennuyeux/ennuyeuse, passionnant/passionnante and amusant/amusante describe the speaker’s view, not universal facts about everyone’s enjoyment.
Give an opinion and reason
Invitations and plans
- Original invitation: Lina proposes Saturday at 15:00 at the cinema. Adam says he cannot at 15:00 and proposes 16:00; Lina accepts and names the meeting point outside the cinema. The final arrangement overrides the earlier proposal.
- Tu veux aller au cinéma ? is informal, and Désolé/Désolée, je ne peux pas is an acceptable refusal with speaker agreement. Je vais jouer uses present aller plus infinitive for a future plan; je vais à la piscine can instead describe present movement or routine.
Original invitation exchange
Music
- Genre phrases include le rock, le rap, le jazz and la pop; masculine pop is also attested. Le chanteur/la chanteuse means singer and un concert a concert. Listening to music and playing an instrument are distinct activities.
- Original hobby text: Le samedi, Sam joue au tennis. Sam écoute souvent du jazz, mais ne joue jamais de la guitare. Demain, Sam va aller au cinéma avec des amis. It supplies routine, frequency, a negative and a plan; it does not show that Sam dislikes guitar music.
Music words
Original hobby account
- Le samedi, Sam joue au tennis. Sam écoute souvent du jazz, mais ne joue jamais de la guitare. Demain, Sam va aller au cinéma avec des amis. This is an original fictional account.
- Separate the Saturday tennis routine, frequent jazz listening, negative guitar statement and cinema plan for tomorrow. The text does not establish that Sam dislikes guitar music or plays tennis daily.
Read the original hobby account
Diapos
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1.What does "je joue au foot" mean?
Easy- AI play football
- BI watch football
- CI like football
- DI teach football
2.What does "je regarde la télé" mean?
Easy- AI listen to the radio
- BI read
- CI play
- DI watch TV
3.What does "la natation" mean?
Easy- Arunning
- Bskiing
- Cswimming
- Ddancing
4.What does "le cinéma" mean?
Easy- Athe museum
- Bthe cinema
- Cthe theatre
- Dthe concert
5.What does "écouter de la musique" mean?
Easy- Ato listen to music
- Bto play music
- Cto write music
- Dto buy music
6.What does "lire" mean?
Easy- Ato write
- Bto listen
- Cto watch
- Dto read
7.In « Je ne joue jamais au tennis », what does « ne…jamais » mean?
Easy- Aoften
- Bsometimes
- Cnever
- Dalways
8.For a repeated routine described as occurring every time, what does « toujours » mean?
Easy- Asometimes
- Balways
- Cnever
- Drarely
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