My awesome stream that reaches for the stars by Jannette Flores Solis https://padlet.com/JFedu/CantWaitToGraduateAndGetOutOfHere Made with a curious mind en-us 2017-10-24 19:48:29 UTC 2017-10-30 04:39:52 UTC hello@padlet.com Après And Its Uses JFedu https://padlet.com/JFedu/CantWaitToGraduateAndGetOutOfHere/wish/201586609 In French, if you're using ''après + verb'', we consider that this action is always going to take place in the past of when you're speaking. THEREFORE, you could NEVER say ''après faire ça'' the way you say ''after doing that'' in English!
You can use après before a noun, but that noun has to have an article before it.
As for using reflexive verbs, note that the reflexive pronoun WILL change (m' / t' / s' / nous / vous / s') and be placed before the auxiliary 'être'.
English Def: After
Après la boum, je vais faire mes devoirs. 
After the party, I will do mye homework.
En général, je fais me devoirs après le dîner.
Generally, I do my homework after dinner.
]]> 2017-10-30 03:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/JFedu/CantWaitToGraduateAndGetOutOfHere/wish/201586609 Pendant And Its Uses JFedu https://padlet.com/JFedu/CantWaitToGraduateAndGetOutOfHere/wish/201591795 Pendant means "for" and refers to the entire duration of an action in the past or future, with no relation to the present.
English: For, during
Pendant la boum, je vais ecouter des CD.
During the party, I will listen to my CD's.]]> 2017-10-30 04:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/JFedu/CantWaitToGraduateAndGetOutOfHere/wish/201591795 Avant And Its Uses JFedu https://padlet.com/JFedu/CantWaitToGraduateAndGetOutOfHere/wish/201592969 Avant has 3 different forms, based on what follows it.
* with a noun,  it’s avant + noun 
avant le dîner, avant le commencement de la classe, avant mon départ
* with a verb, it’s avant +de + infinitive
it translates to ‘before verbing’
avant de dîner – before dining
avant de commencer – before starting
avant de partir – before leaving
* with an entire phrase it gets complicated and we won’t play with that one in class, but here’s the structure anyway.
avant + que + phrase in subjunctive form with ‘ne’ in front of the verb
English Def: Before
Avant le dîner, nous allons au parc municipal.
Before we eat dinner, we are going to the city park.
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