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La Tour Eiffel

Eiffel Tower
La Tour Eiffel (9:30 to 11:00pm)
The Eiffel Tower’s Voice: Stefania Rousselle (Arts: New York Times)
Surprisingly, it may be difficult to spot the Eiffel Tower from most streets of Paris. A great perch for viewing the Paris skyline is from the front balcony of the Pompideu Center. Another great view of the Tower is from beneath it.
Our favorite moment at the Eiffel Tower was jogging early in the morning before dawn. This area along the Seine is open, with an iscolated even dangerous feeling.
The rest of the time, this area is mobbed by tourism The neighborhood atop Butte Montmartre is even more congested but to us more acceptable because of it’s artistic, bohemian aire and its spiritual proximity to the Basilica Sacré-Cœur. And far in the distance you will spot the tiny Eiffel Tower.

Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923)
also designed the inner framework of the Statue of Liberty

Participles (French)

Participles
Words formed from a verb and used as an adjective or a noun

Present Participles
En and present participle
Cause and occasion: en + present participle (en vieillissant, je commence à comprendre)

Past Participles
Past participles inding in -i, -is, it and -rt Past participles inding in -i, -is, it and -rt
Past participles ending in -u (do not reflect or correspond to a single category of infinitives)
Past participles ending in -é (correspond to infinitives ending in -er)

Agreement of Past Participles
-Agreement with preceding direct objects (reflexive verbs conjugated with avoir)
-Agreement with subjects (nonrelexive verbs conjugated with être)

determine past participle of verb for compound tenses
(passé composé, the pluperfect , the past conditional)

Moi Mots
Verbs
Elements of Grammar

Time (French Expressions)

Expressions of Time

Mettre and expressions of time
How long it takes to complete an activity Le temps qu’on met

en avance, à l’heure, en retard
en avance (early)
a l’heure (on time)
en retard (late)
en deux minutes (in two minutes)

il y a une heure, tout a l’heure, dans une heure
Il y a une heure (very recent past or very near future)
tout à l’heure (the past)
dans une heure (the future)
tout de suite

pendant, depuis, pour
pendant (duration)
depuis (significance for a forward-looking project)
pour (point of departure)

French Expressions
Elements of Grammar