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Immigration Interview-Lesson 1
About your fulfilment !
To form the perfect tense, the auxiliary verbs (avoir or
être) and the past participle are necessary
Perfect tense = auxiliary verb + Past participle
avoir/être)
(in the indicative present)
when the action is achieved in the past. Most part of the
verbs are conjugated with the auxiliary verb (avoir)
except
1- The motion verbs when they are not followed by a
direct complement
2- The reflexive verbs
ex
:Qu’est-ce que vous avez fait hier ?
Hier, j’ai étudié.
Note: the past participle of faire is fait and the verbs
ending in er in the infinitive form have their past
participle ending in é
To have --------------------------Avoir
J’ai
Tu as
Il/Elle/On a
Nous avons
Vous avez
Ils/Elles ont
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Immigration Interview-Lesson 2
Talking about the verb, we will focus on
1- The tense to determine the action in a certain period,
moment or time
2- The pronoun subject to identify who is doing the
action. This aspect is as important as the tense because
the pronoun subject will definite the verb’s ending: each
verb has a root and an ending.
The indicative present is useful when you want to talk
about people, things or events
ex
:
-En ce moment
Qu’est-ce que vous faites en ce moment ?
Or:
Que faites-vous en ce moment ?
-Présentement
Qu’est-ce que vous faites présentement ?
Or:
Que faites-vous présentement ?
-Maintenant
Qu’est-ce que vous faites maintenant ?
Or:
Que faites-vous maintenant ?
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Immigration Interview-Lesson 3
What is your plan ?
Characterized by the verb aller and another verb in the
infinitive form, the immediate future is useful when the
action is located in the near or not too distant future.
Immediate future = Aller (in the indicative present) +
Another verb (in the infinitive form)
ex
:
Qu’est-ce que vous allez faire au Québec?
Or
Qu’allez-vous faire au Québec?
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Immigration Interview-Lesson 4
How to describe your duties during your last job
experiences ?
Except the verb être which is irregular in the imperfect:
ex
:J'étais, tu étais, il/elle/on était,
nous étions, vous étiez, ils/elles étaient,
to form the imperfect, we add the following endings:
ais, ais, ait, ions, iez, aient to the stem of the first person
plural in present indicative of any verb.
ex
:Je travaillais , tu travaillais ,
il/elle/on travaillait , nous travaillions , vous travailliez ,
ils/elles travaillaient
Note: remember that the stem of the verb is travaill and
the ending is er .
the first person plural in the present indicative is travaillons .
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Immigration Interview-Lesson 5
An immigration interview simulation !
Only three(3) forms are necesary to complete the
imperative:
-the first(1st) one corresponds to the singular second
person of the present indicative without tu and s as
ending.
-the second(2nd) one corresponds to the plural first
person of the present indicative without nous .
-the third(3rd) one corresponds to the plural second
person without vous
Note: the s is dropped from all the first(1st) group verb
except when there is a pronoun en or y after that verb.
ex
:
parle à tes parents !
parlons à nos parents !
parlez à vos parents !
but
parles-en à tes parents !
parlons-en à nos parents !
parlez-en à vos parents !
ex
:
Veuillez vous introduire !
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Immigration Interview 
