Chapter 13 of 16 · Explore the French path
Reading · Chapter 13 of 16
Try your first book
Read the three things this path left out, then open Twelve Tales from the Green Hill. Practise attempting the French line before you look across at the English.
≈ 2 min of reading · Practise at your own pace
What’s in this chapter
- Start with the Green Hill fables, which use deliberately limited language — very nearly the word list you have just read.
- Read the French line before looking across at the English; tap an important unknown word once and move on.
- Three things this path left out are named below; none changes what a sentence means.
- After Green Hill, move to Winnie-the-Pooh, then Doctor Dolittle — in that order.
A real book has longer sentences than these, shapes nobody showed you, and words you do not know. All three are normal and none is a reason to stop. You now know what to notice while you look things up: the silent endings, the joins, the little word in front of the verb, the two halves of the negation, and the two pasts a story is told in.
Three things this path left out, and what to do about each
A real book will hand you all three of these. None of them changes what a sentence means, so you can read past them.
| What you will meet | What to do |
|---|---|
| y | Read past them; the sentence works without them. |
| flipped questions and speech: Où vas-tu ? | The shapes you know, turned round — sometimes with a -t- pushed in to keep two vowels apart. |
| short pasts of verbs this path did not teach: il fit | Same shape as the past-tense section — a person word, then something short. Trust the shape. |
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