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Language Workshop

Facilitated by Alliance Française de DuPage members Diane Hoffmeyer and Phyllis Perkins, our free language workshops for AF DuPage members give you the opportunity to brush up on specific language topics.


Language  Workshop is held on the first Tuesday of the month, September through  May, from 7-8 pm. Workshops will be held online through Zoom until  further notice.


2020-2021 Workshop Dates
April 6, 2021
May 4, 2021


If you are not currently an Alliance Française DuPage member, you can sign up online or download a PDF membership form to mail in with your check.


Please register for the workshop two days in advance to receive the Zoom link. The deadline to register for the April workshop is Sunday, April 4.


Homework assignments, worksheets and answers

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Worksheets, Homework and Answers

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April 6, 2021

Homework to do before class:  

  • Devoirs: Les Adjectifs mobiles (print and prepare)
  • Devoirs: Le Petit Déjeuner (print and prepare)

Pages to be reviewed from the March 2 workshop:

  • Adjective practice activity and answers

March 2, 2021

Homework to do before class:  

  • Devoirs: L'usage de l'imparfait et le passé composé (print and prepare)
  • Le Carnaval à Nice (print and prepare)

Please correct the homework at home and bring questions to class:

  • Answer key: Réponses: L’usage de l’imparfait et le passé composé
  • Answer key: Réponses: Le Carnaval à Nice

Pages to be reviewed from the February 2 workshop:

  • Answer key: Devoirs le 5 janvier 2021 - Near future, present progressive, recent past
  • Answer key: Devoirs le 5 janvier: Déterminez le temps
  • Answer key: Le Carnaval au Québec
  • Answer key: Practice activity #1 done in breakout room
  • Answer key: Practice activity  #2 done in breakout room

To Print and Review/Prepare:

  • Quelques expressions pour décrire le passé (print and review)
  • Adjectifs mobiles / Movable adjectives (print and review)

To Print and bring to class - see directions on page:  

  • Le Crime non résolu

February 2, 2021

Pages to be reviewed from the January 5 workshop:

  • Answer key to the 'verbes et prépositions' homework worksheet
  • Answer key to the 'Conversation Dirigée' activity 

To Print and Review/Prepare:

  • La Météo/Le Temps (print)
  • Vocabulaire d'hiver (print)
  • Brise-glace (print and prepare)
  • Imperfect tense (print and review)
  • The imperfect and the passé composé (print and review)

Homework to do before class:  

  • Devoirs le 5 janvier (futur proche, passé récent, progressif présent) (print)
  • Devoirs le 5 janvier (vocabulaire) (print)
  • Lecture - Québec (print)

January 5, 2021

Homework to do before this class:
At the December workshop we worked on the Conversation Dirigée in groups. It reviews the use of the verb devoir and some verbs that take a preposition or not before a noun. It is here  for you to review, write or practice. At the January workshop,  volunteers may read their conversation.

  • Conversation Dirigée
  • Devoirs: Verbs et Prépositions (print)
  • Devoirs :  Lecture – Please choose one of the following readings to do according  to your ability. The first is shorter and less challenging than the  second one.
  • En voiture (print)
  • Des chiens détecteurs (print)

Please check the answers below and bring any questions you have to class:

  • En voiture réponses
  • Des chiens détecteurs réponses

Please print before class:

  • Brise-glace (print)
  • Le futur proche, le présent progressif, et le passé récent (print)

December 1, 2020

Homework to do before this class:
Le climat, le temps et les zones climatiques (print) Will check answers in class.
Devoirs: "nice" (print) Will check answers in class.
Devoirs: Le verbe devoir (print)
Please check the answer key below and bring any questions you have to class.
Devoirs: Le verbe devoir réponses
Brise-glace (Print. We ask you to prepare three sentences for class.)
Differences of Use of Prepositions between French and English Verbs (print and review before class)

November 10, 2020

Here are  the answers to the translation homework for those of you who chose to  complete this page. It was optional. Bring your questions to class. We  will not be going over each of the answers.
Devoirs - Les Traductions: réponses
Look  over the different ways to say "nice" in French. Read through the  conjugations of "devoir" and its various meanings. Bring your questions  to class.
Comment dit-on "nice"? (print)
Le verbe devoir (print)

October 6, 2020

Les réponses des devoirs de 8 septembre
To do before class:
Deux vérités et un mensonge
Vocabulaire - Le corps et la figure (print)

Le corps (print)
Homework to be done after class:
Des achats (print)
Portrait d'une famille d'extraterrestre (print)

Le corps (print)

September 8, 2020

To do before class:
Les 3 “P”: Personnel – Professionnel – Particulier
Les prepositions de lieu chart
Deux chambres d'étudiants
Homework to be done after class:
Les prepositions de lieu
Desnos bio
Description d'une chambre


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