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Accents: Circonflexe, cédille, and tréma

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Question 1
1.

What is your name?

Today you will learn about the accents and what they do to the pronunciation of words.

Please watch the videos and answer the questions below.

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Question 2
2.

What are accents?

Question 3
3.

The accent circonflexe looks like...

Question 4
4.

Question 5
5.

Which hat looks most like an accent circonflexe?

Question 6
6.

Which of these letters' pronunciations is changed by the accent circonflexe?

Question 7
7.

Match each word with its definition.

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Next we're doing to learn about the cédille.

Please watch the video and answer the questions below.
Question 9
9.
The cédille is ONLY placed under the letter _______
Question 10
10.
The cédille tells you to make this sound: _______
Question 12
12.

The tréma is a symbol that is placed :

Question 13
13.

The tréma looks like...

Question 14
14.

Question 15
15.

The tréma indicates that the vowel placed under it should be pronounced...

Question 16
16.

Match each word with its definition.

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On which letters do you place the accent circonflexe?
a
e
i
o
u
c
a (from "ah" to "ay")
e (from "euh" to "eh")
i (from "ee" to "eye")
o (from "oh" to "oo")
u (from "oo" to "oh")
c (from "ss" to "kah")
forêt
head
tête
donkey
âne
cake
pêche
oak
gâteau
forest
chêne
peach
On which letters do you place the tréma?
a
e
i
o
u
c
Noël
Christmas
glaïeul
canoe
mosaïque
Gladiolus flower
canoë
mosaic
aïeul
elder
maïs
corn