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It's Time To Take Control of Those French Verb Tenses!

Message To Teachers Of French

For Personal and Professional Development - And to help our students of French

  • Recently Released – Two Extraordinary New Tools for Teaching and Learning French Verb Tenses.
  • See the detailed description below, then click HERE to see a preview and get your personal copies!

 

French teachers need the best possible reference works on French verb tenses because tenses are so absolutely crucial to our students’ ability to express meaningful and complex ideas with skill and confidence.

 

Just Imagine having at your fingertips an exhaustive encyclopedia of French verb tenses containing examples of the entire range of French verb tenses, forms, and variations, alphabetically arranged, side-by-side with every one of their possible English translations!

 

With such a reference work, a teacher is instantly able to discover and reveal to their students all the powerful options of French verb-tense expression as never before!

 

Now every teacher can have such an encyclopedia at their fingertips!  See details below.

Important Message to French Teachers, from a fellow teacher who, over a period of 26 years, has taught French to English-speaking learners of French – to French Immersion students at the Junior- and Senior-high levels, to teachers of Core French, to adults, to parents of French Immersion students, and to professionals seeking to enhance their French language skills.

The Encyclopedia

  • Two fresh game-changing tools for learning! The World Encyclopedia of French Verb Tenses and The French Verb Tense Sample Gallery – Taking the learning of French verb tenses to a whole new level!

 

  • True mastery of the French language is impossible without mastering its rich collection of verb tenses and forms. As is well known by effective speakers and writers of French, each French verb tense can also branch out into additional configurations which can greatly increase the number of interesting options available for the speaker’s/writer’s ability to convey rich and complex ideas.
  • First, there is the Basic format (Active Voice) of each of the (at least 39) tenses and forms.
  • Some verbs use Avoir to create compound tenses, others use Être to do so, and some use one or the other - depending on the context!
  • Then, there are up to four possible types of Passive approaches for each tense.
  • There can also be up to eight types of Pronominals for each tense. (Often referred superficially as “Reflexive” verbs)
  • In addition, each tense will often be used in combination with one of the four most frequently used Semi-auxiliary verbs – Aller, Devoir, Pouvoir, and Vouloir ­– to add yet many more shades of meaning.
  • The above variations actually add up to hundreds of different possibilities. This number is further increased by the different subjects, and again by the more than 12,000 available French verbs!

The Encyclopedia (The World Encyclopedia of French Verb Tenses) gathers all this variation into an extremely concise, helpful, and easy-to-use reference work, and tops it off with 12 powerful indexes covering a huge amount of difficult-to-find information about key features and dynamics of the French verb system as a whole. Now it's always just a click away, and all in one place to make teaching and learning French verbs more comprehensive, easier and less frustrating.

  • Filled with 615 easy-to-use formulas (and also the technical formulas).
  • Hundreds of examples with English translations of every conceivable meaning make the Encyclopedia a truly one-of-a-kind learning tool!
  • The combinations of all of the above can be truly staggering in variety, beauty, and scope.
  • Unfortunately, most verb reference works and exercise tools do not explore many of these widely used verb-tense forms or their variations (mentioned above) in ways that give learners any real chance of true mastery.
  • But advanced communicators use them all to make their messages clearer, more powerful, and more convincing.

 

  • The ONLY reference work that covers all these French verb tenses, forms, and variations along with all their rules of formation in a user-friendly format is the amazing  The World Encyclopedia of French Verb Tenses (516 pages). The Encyclopedia features extensive help for teachers and students alike. It’s an absolute must-have for every reference library, digital or printed and kept in a three-ring binder!
  • You can see a preview of the Encyclopedia HERE.
  • Released in the summer of 2018, the ground-breaking Encyclopedia presents all French verb tenses and forms (including many which are never covered in traditional works) in a hyperlinked, user-friendly alphabetical order, with a concise description of all the rules for each one at your fingertips. The Encyclopedia is extensively hyperlinked for instant access to all tenses and their rules of application, making research, exploration, and discovery easier, more fun, and more fascinating than ever before. 

The Sample Gallery

  • Also now available as a companion volume to the Encyclopedia is the 270-page volume The French Verb Tense Sample Gallery. This companion volume follows the same arrangement as the Encyclopedia and is also extensively hyperlinked for instant reference and leisurely exploration. The Sample Gallery gives users examples of every tense and form featured in the Encyclopedia (without all the rules). It also includes English translations of every possible meaning (masculine, feminine, plural) of every verb tense, form, and combination covered in the Encyclopedia!
  • These two volumes, the Encyclopedia and the Sample Gallery, provide a handy, user-friendly, panoramic view of the whole French verb-tense system along with guidance on how to master each of its special components. The Encyclopedia gives you all the rules AND examples with translations. The Sample Gallery gives you just the examples and translations of everything covered in the Encyclopedia, which makes it a versatile tool for exploration, discovery, review, and study!

Never before has so much insight been made available in such a concise and user-friendly format!

  • The Encyclopedia and the Sample Gallery are both available in digital format (pdf) so they can always be at your fingertips on your smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop device.

Tools Coming Soon To verbexpress.net

  • A wide range of exercises for all tenses and forms (including the affirmative, negative, and interrogative), as well as with object pronouns, Participe passé agreement, Discours indirect, Hypothèses, Subjonctif, and more will soon be available by special school subscription for teachers and students at verbexpress.net.
  • Stay tuned to find out what’s new at verbexpress.net in the weeks and months to come!
  • Click on the Coming Attractions menu at the top of this page for a sample of what's coming soon to verbexpress.net!

But for now, be sure to order your personal copy of The World Encyclopedia of French Verb Tenses and, as a helpful extra tool for exploration, discovery, review, and study, be sure to also get your copy of its companion volume The French Verb Tense Sample Gallery! Get ready for a fresh journey of discovery!

  • Click HERE to see a preview and purchase your personal copies!