French Class Imperfect Project Travel??
I have to do a project on Paris for my French II Class, and I was planning on sort of leading the class through a vacation. (Welcome to the Charles-de-Gaul aeroport...etc. This is the Eiffel Tower, *history of Eiffel Tower, Here is Notre Dame, etc. anyway, my teacher wants us to use mainly the imperfect tense and smaller percentage of the past tense (we haven't learned future, just future proche so that's out). Do I have to come up with a new idea to use the imperfect for my particular idea for the project? It is a really unstructred project, so if you have any ideas about how to use the imperfect in a project about Paris' monuments, that would be fabulous.
Merci!
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Hmm... you can't really lead the class on a vacation, if you have to use imparfait, rather than the present or future tenses.
ie.
_ present : You walk down the champs d'élysées when you see...
_ future : You will walk down the champs d'élysées when you will see...
_ past : You were walking down the champs d'élysées, when you saw...
See, the past tense doesn't really work with your idea of taking them on an adventure. If you're allowed to use principally the present, it would work. But if you're restricted to using past tenses, you'll have to stick to describing it to them as an event already completed. Perhaps you might want it to be an advert for a tourism company, and you could be a happy customer describing everything you saw and did - just to add a little drama and keep in interesting... ??
Be sure to know when to use imparfait and when to use passé composé. :)
Bonne chance !