The documentary film Être et avoir profiles Georges Lopez, a teacher at a small rural French primary school, and his students over the course of a school year. While intended as a small documentary about single-teacher village schools, the film became a surprise commercial success. However, Lopez and parents of students argued they were misled about the film's scope and felt the children's privacy and emotional well-being were exploited by their unexpected fame. The court ultimately ruled in favor of the filmmaker, declaring the children were not actors but subjects of a documentary.
By the end of this lesson you will be able to:
Learn the subject pronouns.
Conjugate the verb avoir in the present tense.
Form the negation with the verb avoir in the present tense
Formulate questions using the verb avoir
Identify idiomatic expressions that use the verb avoir
The documentary film Être et avoir profiles Georges Lopez, a teacher at a small rural French primary school, and his students over the course of a school year. While intended as a small documentary about single-teacher village schools, the film became a surprise commercial success. However, Lopez and parents of students argued they were misled about the film's scope and felt the children's privacy and emotional well-being were exploited by their unexpected fame. The court ultimately ruled in favor of the filmmaker, declaring the children were not actors but subjects of a documentary.
By the end of this lesson you will be able to:
Learn the subject pronouns.
Conjugate the verb avoir in the present tense.
Form the negation with the verb avoir in the present tense
Formulate questions using the verb avoir
Identify idiomatic expressions that use the verb avoir