The Class Page #2

The penny thing...

To make the penny drop,

No one knows the expression?

If the penny drops,

it means you understand.

When I say,

if cheeseburger stink

they're not succulent,

that should help you see

what "succulent" means.

- What's with the Bills?

- What bills?

The name Bill.

You always use weird names.

Weird? A recent US President

was called Bill.

Why don't you use Aissata

or Rachid or Ahmed...

You always use whitey names.

What names?

- Honky names.

- What's honky?

Honkies, Frenchies, frogs.

You're not French?

No, I'm not French.

I didn't know.

I am, but not proud of it.

Fine, I'm not either

Why use these names?

Khoumba, if I start choosing names

to suit all your origins, it'll

never end.

Just change a little!

What do you suggest?

Aissata! Fatou, no!

- No, Aissata.

- Aissata, Aissata!

Excuse me. You have class 4/3

in French?

I'm class supervisor too.

Know what book you'll be reading?

No, I haven't decided.

In history I'll start with

Ancien Regime

If you want to link into that,

what kind of books are there?

The Enlightenment will

be tough for them.

How about Voltaire? Is he tough?

He's not easy.

Candide, is simple...

Not in their year

Zadig...

Yes, but it'd be tough

You have 20 seconds.

No, we've not finished yet!

We've not finished yet!

We can't spend 2 hours on the

imperfect.

Dalla, I can give you the time.

Sir, my pen keeps leaking!

- It's crap

- Who has a handkerchief?

Me!

Rabah!

Ask before you stand.

- May I?

- Yes.

- Gently, Ok...

- The perv!

He touched her tits!

Just give him the handkerchief.

Spare us your comments.

God dam pedophile!

- Quiet!

- Sir?

Why the imperfect indicative?

Cut it out!

- Why not just imperfect?

- Quiet, Souleymane.

All right, Esmeralda,

why the indicative?

If I knew, I wouldn't ask.

I can imagine. Anyone know why we

specify the imperfect indicative?

Why not just the imperfect?

Nassim?

May I wash my hands?

Go on, wash them and get it over with.

Make it quick.

He'll take a week!

- I'll go with him.

- Enough

The imperfect indicative is

different than another imperfect

Which imperfect is that?

Agam?

- The imperfect subjunctive.

Exactly.

The Imperfect subjunctive.

Can anyone give me an example?

I don't believe it, Khoumba,

but go on.

I may be wrong...

I think so too.

- I were

- I were.

From the verb "to werr"

- I don't know...

- I wuz.

I were, we were, you were

All right. Not bad but you use it

wrongly.

You vaguely recall

the imperfect subjunctive.

Imagine I say:

"He insist...

"that I be... "

Let's say "in shape".

"He insists that I be in shape"

What is "be" in that example?

The present subjunctive.

Very good. For the imperfect

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes