7th May 2020

 

• Bilingual Listening and Reading Exercise (B1)  Claude Monet's Water Lilies
  
  

 

 

- We can't talk about Monet without mentioning Giverny, his residence-turned-museum, and especially its amazing gardens which inspired so many masterpieces. And now, thanks to the lockdown, you can actually visit Giverny online for free, as this French article explains:

- As a bonus, here's one sentence from this article linked to our related grammar lessons:

• Adjectives of nationalities vary depending on gender in French (French Adjectives)
• "Des" becomes " de/d' " in front of adjectives preceding nouns (French Partitive Articles)
• Expressing possession in French with "de"
• Recognising all -er verbs - including aller - in the historic past in French (Le Passé Simple)
• Common mistakes with mon/ma/mes, ton/ta/tes and son/sa/ses (French Possessive Adjectives)
• Forming the superlative of French adjectives in complex cases
• Adjectives usually go AFTER nouns in French (Position of Adjectives)
• Beau, nouveau, vieux have different plural forms for masculine and feminine (French Adjectives)