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Julien asks Alex to describe a typical day.
Le week-end really is the French word — borrowed straight from English, hyphen and all. So is le weekend without the hyphen; both are accepted.
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1. Reflexive verbs — je me lève
Some French verbs come with a little pronoun that points back at the subject: je me lève ("I get myself up"), tu te lèves, il/elle se lève. English usually drops it, but French never does — the me, te, se is part of the verb.
2. Regular -er verbs in the present
Take travailler, drop the -er, and add the endings: je travaille, tu travailles, il/elle travaille, nous travaillons, vous travaillez, ils/elles travaillent. Nearly every new verb you meet will follow this exact pattern.
3. How often — toujours, parfois, jamais
toujours (always), normalement (normally), parfois (sometimes), jamais (never). Most sit right after the verb; normalement and parfois can also open the sentence, as they do in this dialogue.
4. Avant de + infinitive
To say "before doing something," use avant de plus the plain form of the verb. The de never changes, and the second verb never changes either.
A. Fill in the Blank · Complétez
Fill in the blank with a word from this lesson's vocabulary.
- 1.Je réveille à sept heures.myself
- 2.Je m'habille .quickly
- 3.Tu tous les jours ?you work
- 4. le week-end.never
B. Multiple Choice · Choix multiple
Choose the best answer.
- 1.How do you say "I get up at seven"?
- 2.Which is the correct tu form of travailler?
- 3.How do you say "before leaving"?
- 4.Which word means "sometimes"?
C. Rearrange the Sentence · Remettez dans l'ordre
Rearrange the words into a correct sentence, adding the punctuation shown in parentheses.
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- 2.Tap tiles below…
- 3.Tap tiles below…
- 4.Tap tiles below…
D. True or False · Vrai ou faux
Based on the dialogue, mark each sentence T (true) or F (false).
- 1.Alex normally wakes up at seven.
- 2.Alex has breakfast at a café.
- 3.Alex works on weekends.
- 4.Alex usually sleeps very little.
E. Matching · Associez
Match each question on the left with the best response on the right.
F. Translation · Traduction
Translate items 1–2 into French, and items 3–4 into English.
- 1.I wake up at seven.
- 2.Do you work every day?
- 3.Je m'habille vite.
- 4.Parfois tôt, mais normalement je dors peu.
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When France eats
Meal times are fixed, and later than English-speaking ones. Lunch runs from around noon to two and is a real break — in smaller towns shops and offices close for it, so an errand planned for half past twelve can meet a locked door. Dinner is rarely before half past seven and often closer to nine; a restaurant that opens at seven will sit empty until eight. Between them, le goûter at about four is the children's snack, and the one moment in the day when cake needs no defending. Keeping English hours in France mostly means eating alone.