ÛÛ Text to be used in a DOS-based simple editor or word processor. ÛÛ To be loaded and used after installing the TSR by typing at the ÛÛ DOS prompt: FRVERBS2. ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ Bienvenue … tous! = Welcome to all! ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ A T u t o r i a l for FRVERBS2: a hypertextual TSR ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ Place the cursor on the CODE (between Û Û, then press the "hotkeys" Ctrl + V (both keys together) and release them. Then - to return here in this editor after viewing one or or more screenfuls in the TSR - press the F10 key. The Û Û are not essential. In this ASCII file (this one) - not part of FRVERBS2 - Û Û serves to highlight the links. 1 What kinds of French verbs does this TSR deal with? Two kinds: regular verbs and irregular verbs, but subsumed under each are the following: þ conjugated by example Û menu1 Û (2 top rows) a) regular: þ part of three lists of non-conjugated verbs þ reflexive (conjugated Û REFL Û & only listed) [ For example, see: Û rg2 Û and Û rfl Û ] þ 52+ conjugated in Û menu1 Û, Û menu2 Û, Û menu3 Û b) irregular: þ non-conjugated but individually hyperlinked to their models: in Û menu4 Û and in Û MIV Û 2 Whenever you are in FRVERBS2 and you wish to select a hyperlink, move the cursor (or mouse) to that hyperlink (by pressing the Tab or Shift+Tab keys to move across and down or backward to the high- lighted links. Try it now... (Or use the Arrow keys.) No. Wait! From this outside world (i.e. in this editor): first access the Table of Contents or Û TOC Û. When there access a screen related to one of the links in the Table of Contents and having seen it, press PageUp to return to TOC. When you have returned to TOC press the F10 key to return here. (Wait until you've accomplished the above and have then returned here before reading #3 below.) 3 Were you successful in your first navigation lesson? Good! Some screens include more than one screenful. Indeed some screens are scrollable (up to more than two hundred lines!). On your own you might visit such a scrollable screen Û ENGL Û later. At this time don't try to access Û ENGL Û . You may get lost in FRVERBS2 waters. Don't wander into unchartered waters yet... 4 Let's look at the really important components of FRVERBS2: the regular and irregular conjugated verbs. After accessing from here the first menu (Û menu1 Û) the usual way, select Û REG Û and move to the related screen, and when there, move your cursor to the first or topmost of two blue links that hug a part of the "T" design... When you then press ENTER, you will see part of the right side of the screen disappear! Do that and come back here in the usual way. To come back here after you have magically "deleted" the "pass‚ pass‚" of the verb REGARDER, you will have to press PageUp to "undo" the deletion and/or press the F10 key. It's much simpler and easier than it may now appear. Go on now: do your thing, then return here. 5 While you were in one of several REGARDER screens, you could have chosen several other hyperlinks. The link that deletes part of the left paradigm is hidden in the last or lowest blue square in the design of the "T". Try it next trip. But not right now! Because Exploring all of the links in a verb's displays is something you can do on your own. Okay? Now let's go on... 6 So now what? Let's look at something that should be a great help to anyone wanting to learn more verbs by understanding the rela- tionship that many irregular verbs have with others (their models, as it were). In FRVERBS2 more than one hundred irregular verbs have been hyperlinked with their look-alikes (or "twin") in the area of conjugation. So to appreciate such relationships and learn from them, visit Û menu4 Û and scroll down a bit (by pressing Page- Down once or twice, "pick" a link and Enter it. After seeing where it takes you, press PageUp to return to menu4 exactly where you left it. Then, if you are not lost, or even if you are lost, press F10 to return here...to your tutor. 7 You are eager to test not only your sea legs but also your skills with regular and irregular verbs. Right? Fine. Let's try some- thing that should not be too taxing. One small quiz will do. After reaching Û rqz1 Û (which relates to several tenses of regular verbs), think of the correct French verb form to fill in the blank. If you need help (the verb itself? or a form of it?), access the appropriate one or two links, then backtrack by pressing PageUp. The answer of course is just a PageDown away. Try a few forms and then press F10 to come right back here. [ F10 is the key that allows you to remove FRVERBS2 from view while keeping it (the TSR) resident. 8 Would you like a visual and hyperlinked record of what we have been doing? Access FRVERBS2 in any way you want, let's say Û TOC Û , and then when in the Û TOC Û screen, press the ESCape key to see a drop-down list. Select "Link History" and see the places that we (you) have been visiting. From any of those links you will be able to revisit whatever screen interests you... Incidentally, when you (re)visit Û TOC Û , PageDown to the second page of that screen: more hyperlinks to discover and explore! Do that now! 9 Do you have a piece of paper and a pencil (or pen) with you. If you do not, pretend you do. We'll look at one of the 14 compre- hensive challenges that FRVERBS2 offers you in the form of 7 tense to tense conversions. I would like you now to access: Û TUT Û and then proceed to select one of the 14 choices. When you are in one of the 14 tests, write or imagine the 7 new tense forms that are needed to transform (morph?) the sentences appropriately. You will think a while, since none of the tasks are easy. You give up or you think you know? See all the seven answers at once by press- ing ENTER (for the cursor is already at the screen's one hyperlink). You then need to press PageUp to release the answers and/or press F10 to return here. (You could - but don't now - proceed, after releasing the answers, to subsequent tests by pressing "PageDown". If you now wish to go directly to a given test, take your pick: Û tut02 Û Û tut05 Û Û tut08 Û Û tut13 Û . 10 You know quite a good deal about French verbs and you are now ready to review for a major test or prepare for a trip to a French-speaking country or province. Well, here's what you may enjoy doing. Access the menu called Û T4R Û . What does it mean? "T4R" is a coded link for "Tenses for Review". There you will find all the links that will help you review every French tense of every regular verb group. While you're in FRVERBS2, visit another interesting twosome: Û Wait Û and Û Stay Û . After that come back and let's take a break... 11 After you have (re)viewed or studied (and learned) all of the verbs in any of the three main verb menus (menu1, menu2, menu3), two or three tests are available to you. These tests are access- ible in the usual way: Press the Tab or Arrow keys to reach the appropriate link(s). Example: Û test4 Û. If you wish to know what that test deals with, access the following: Û TOC Û and then tab to the "Aidez-moi!" hyperlink and click on (or hit) it. 12 You have tried the above and you are now back here after pressing F10? Another screen that you may wish to look at in this tutorial displays the affirmative and negative command forms in French and the relative position of pronouns when the latter are used. [ When working with an ancillary program - P&Q (Practice and Quizzes) -, a component of 410 English-French contextualized verb forms that every registered user of FRVERBS2 may request (to receive it free of charge), a user will at times want to access this Û COM Û - the screen that helps him or her understand and remember how object pronouns behave when in a "command" position! ] The frame Û QUEST Û , is a multi-screen illustration of various French question-related inversion structures. Access it now, if you so wish... 13 Now, let me remind you that pressing the Home key will not take you to the Table of Contents but to the opening screen - unless you have registered FRVERBS2. But any user of FRVERBS2 can access the Û TOC Û screen (as you must have done already) at the DOS prompt by typing the code Û TOC Û or in a setting such as the current one by placing the cursor on that code and pressing the hotkey combination (Ctrl+V). Registered users, however, can reach Û TOC Û directly (a) whenever they press Ctrl+V after installing FRVERBS2 or (b) press the "Home" key from whatever screen they may already have accessed. 14 You are now on your own, unless, of course I hear from you... Ah... I almost forgot. See Û regis Û and finally this: Û thanx Û . Bonne journ‚e, bon voyage et bonne croisiŠre! A la prochaine. B.G.P. December 1996 [ This file should remain READ ONLY. ]