Turn in diaries
1. Roll call: What is your worst habit?
2. Grammar Lesson: Compound Tenses (French equivalents accessible here)
- Present progressive
- Present perfect
- Past perfect
- Future perfect
- Conditional perfect
Compound tenses in English
Name
|
French
|
English
|
Preterite
(simple past)
|
J’ai pris
Je pris
|
I took
|
Present perfect
« déjà »
|
J’ai pris
|
I have taken
|
Past perfect
|
J’avais pris
|
I had taken
|
Conditional perfect
|
J’aurais pris
|
I would have taken
|
Future Perfect
|
j'aurai
pris
|
I will
have taken
|
3. Book reports
4. Presentations: sports
5. Writing exercise (write your own points and be ready to debate in class): Do violent video games and movies negatively affect the people who play them? Should they be classified differently, or do they share equal blame? To what extent should the law intervene?
Second question: Should this have been published?
For another point of view: an interview with a man who DID jump down onto the subway tracks and save someone else.
Reminder: next week (December 14) you will come to class. At the end of that class, the online assignment will be posted - due December 21. You are not required to physically come to class on December 21.
