DIFFERENTIATION EXTRA PRACTICE Point de départ You already know how to conjugate regular -ir verbs. However, some of the most commonly used -ir verbs are irregular in their conjugation. Je pars en Normandie avec mon père. On sort célébrer? • Sortir is used to express leaving a room or a building. It also expresses the idea of going out, as with friends or on a date. sortir je sors tu sors il/elle/on sort nous sortons vous sortez ils/elles sortent Tu sors souvent avec tes copains? Do you go out often with your friends? Quand sortez-vous? When are you going out? Mon frère n’aime pas sortir avec Chloé. My brother doesn’t like to go out with Chloé. Mes parents ne sortent pas lundi. My parents aren’t going out Monday. • Use the preposition de after sortir when the place someone is leaving is mentioned. L’élève sort de la salle de classe. The student is leaving the classroom. Nous sortons du restaurant vers vingt heures. We’re leaving the restaurant around 8:00 p.m. • Partir is generally used to say someone is leaving a large place such as a city, country, or region. Often, a form of partir is accompanied by the preposition pour and the name of a destination. partir je pars tu pars il/elle/on part nous partons vous partez ils/elles partent À quelle heure partez-vous? At what time are you leaving? Nous partons à midi. We’re leaving at noon. Je pars pour l’Algérie. I’m leaving for Algeria. Ils partent pour Genève demain. They’re leaving for Geneva tomorrow. Vérifiez 5A.2 Irregular -ir verbs À noter As you’ve already learned, quitter is used to say that someone leaves a place or another person: Tu quittes Montréal? Are you leaving Montreal? Je vais quitter ma femme. I’m going to leave my wife. Leçon 5A Structures 224 deux cent vingt-quatre Communicative Goal Discuss everyday activities like leaving, running, and sleeping Interactive Grammar Tutorial 224 Teacher’s Edition • Lesson 5A Section Goals In this section, students will learn: • the verbs sortir and partir • other irregular -ir verbs Scaffolding • Ask students where they have heard irregular -ir verbs before. (They heard sortir in this lesson’s Roman-photo.) • Model the pronunciation of the forms for sortir and partir. Ask students simple questions. Example: Je sors d’habitude le vendredi soir. Quand sortezvous? (Je sors le samedi soir.) As you elicit responses, write the present-tense forms of sortir and partir on the board until the conjugation is complete. Underline the endings. • Point out the recurrence of the -s, -s, -t pattern in singular forms. • Go over the information in the bullet points on this page. Stress that sortir means to go out or to exit, while partir means to leave. Ask students to think of more examples comparing the two verbs. Point out the note about quitter in the À noter. Using ideas from students, write on the board a short paragraph (two to three sentences) that contains at least one form of each of the three verbs mentioned above. • For further practice with the conjugation of irregular -ir verbs, write a couple of sentences with the verbs sortir and partir on the board, and have students read them out loud. Then say a new subject and have students repeat the sentence, substituting the new subject and making all the necessary changes. Ex: Je sors du cinéma vers sept heures. (Ernest et moi, tu, vous, elles). Rapid Drill As a rapid-response drill, call out subject pronouns and have students respond with the correct form of sortir and partir. Examples: tu (sors) and vous (sortez). Then reverse the drill; say the forms of the verbs and have students give the subject pronouns. Advanced Learners For advanced students, introduce the conjugations of the irregular -ir verbs servir, mentir and sentir. Point out that they are in the same “verb family” as sortir and partir. Call on the advanced students to make sentences with these verbs. Grammar Tutorial
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