BY THE SAME AUTHOR. FIRST FRENCH COURSE, OR RULES AND EXERCISES FOR BEGINNERS. 200 Foolscap Pages. Price 1s. 6d. From the Athenæum, Nov. 20, 1869: "The information is well put, and the book as good a First Course as can be had." KEY TO FRENCH EXERCISES FOR ADVANCED PUPILS. Price 3s. 6d. FRENCH EXERCISES FOR ADVANCED PUPILS, CONTAINING THE PRINCIPAL RULES OF FRENCH SYNTAX, NUMEROUS FRENCH AND A DICTIONARY OF NEARLY FOUR THOUSAND IDIOMATICAL VERBS BY C. A. CHARDENAL, BACHELIER ÈS LETTRES DE L'UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCE, FRENCH MASTER IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. A NEW EDITION. LONDON: LONGMAN & Co.; DULAU & Co.; EDINDURGH: OLIVER & BOYD; SETON & MACKENZIE; MENZIES & Co.; GLASGOW: DAVID BRYCE & Co.; DUBLIN: MACGLASHAN & GILL. 1870. A FEW HINTS TO TEACHERS AND PUPILS ON THE USE OF THIS BOOK. PART FIRST. (From Page 1 to Page 94.) ANY pupil having a good knowledge of the auxiliary verbs être and avoir, of the four regular conjugations, and the principal irregular verbs, and having written a few exercises on the way to translate and place pronouns, may with advantage begin these "Exercises." So much may easily have been learned in two sessions by young ladies and boys at school, and in one by young men in business. For a week or two, it would be well to revise the rudiments, especially the verbs and pronouns. The best way for the teacher to exercise his pupils upon verbs, is to give them a tense to be translated, vivá voce, from each of the four conjugations; for example-Would you praise? Would you punish? Would you receive? Would you lose? Then-Would you be praised? Would you be punished? Would you be received? Would you be lost? Then-Were they praising? Are they praising? Were they punishing? Are they punishing? etc., and so on, varying the questions upon every tense, person, and mood, until the four conjugations are thoroughly known. |