I know it sounds a bit puzzling, so here's an example...... you're reading an English book, in English. Well, if you were really really brilliant at French you could try translating it into French as you went along. More for the really advanced people that one.
BUT ... you can do" littler" things with any bit of English you are reading ( or listening to)..... for example, you can have a go at deciding what the tense of each verb should be in French. (!) Now that's relatively do-able, it's also important and useful. And of course, when you get stuck, or in doubt, you can find out from your terrific array of text-books. That's learning that is.
So you can do this when you're reading a newspaper, or listening to the radio, or writing to your Aunt Agatha or reading a detective story.
Here's a fairly straightforward example .... all you have to do is decided what tense each verb should be in .... obviously you can go further if you wish and actually work out what each verb will actually be + its ending.
Hector was feeling sad. He was no good at Geography and didn't know how to draw the map for homework. He used to be pretty good at it, but he didn't like the new teacher and didn't always understand her explanations. Also, that evening he had to tidy his room.
Suddenly the phone rang. His sister answered it.
" It's someone for you" she said.
" Well, who is it?" Hector asked.
" I don't know" she replied.
Hector grabbed the phone ... " Hello " said a voice ..." is it Hector ?"
He recognized Alice's voice straight away.
" I was wondering what you were doing tonight" she said.
" I was trying to do my homework, but ...."
" I've finished mine ....do you want me to help?"
" Brilliant" Hector replied
So .... how did you get on ? And, if there's any you weren't sure about you can look up the various things the imperfect does, and the perfect .... and so on.
I hope you enjoyed that. And I hope you enjoy this .... it's Camille with Quand je marche ..... excellent .....
Quand je dors je dors
Quand je chante je chante
Je m'abandonne...
Quand je marche, je marche droit
Quand je chante, je chante nue
Et quand j'aime, je n'aime que toi
Quand j'y pense
Je ne dors Plus
Je suis ici
Je suis dedans
Je suis debout
Je ne me moquerais plus de tout
Entends tu (m'as tu dit)
(Le chant du monde) à l'heure de pluie
Quend l'aube se lève je la suis
Et quand la nuit tombe
Je tombe aussi
Je suis ici
Je suis dedans
Je suis debout
Je ne me moquerais plus de tout
(...)
Quand j'ai faim
Tout me nourri
Le cri des chiens et puis la pluie
Quand tu pars, je reste ici
Je m'abandonne
Et je t'oublies