What you can now do
Skills checklist🏠Describe a flat
- 2 pièces, 68 m², 3e étage
- cuisine, salon, salle de bains
- 650 € / mois, calme, récent
🗺️Ask for directions
- Pardon, c'est par où ?
- Tournez à gauche, allez tout droit.
- J'y vais à pied / en métro.
📍Locate on a map
- Marseille est au sud.
- Lille est au nord de Paris.
- Ce restaurant est en face de la place.
✈️Plan a trip
- Book a hotel room
- Pick a means of transport
- Read & write a postcard
📚 Grammar covered in this unit
- Plural stressed pronouns (nous, vous, eux, elles)
- The preposition à (place, time, price, purpose, possession…)
- Question word où "where" (vs ou "or")
- The imperative in 3 forms (tu, nous, vous)
- The verb prendre in the present + family (apprendre, comprendre)
- Contracted articles au, aux, du, des
- The pronoun y "(to) there"
- Means of transport: en (closed) / à (open)
- c'est / ce sont + on (always 3rd person)
- Compass directions (au nord/sud, à l'est/ouest)
Looking for a flat
Match the client's needsActivity 1 — Read the ads and choose Reading + listening
You work at the ABC real-estate agency. Listen to your client's voicemail and choose the ad that best matches her needs.
€650 / month.
€750 / month.
€680 / month.
Based on the client's voicemail, which flat fits best?
✏️ The right answer depends on the criteria mentioned in the message — replay it as many times as you need.
Describe a flat
WritingActivity 2 — Write an email Émail à un.e ami.e
You've just moved into 33 rue du Four, on the 3rd floor (French numbering — that's the 4th floor US-style). Write an email describing your new flat to a friend.
Objet : Mon nouvel appartement !
Salut ____________,
Voilà, j'ai trouvé un appartement !
Il est au ____________ (étage), à ____________ (city).
Il y a ____________ pièces : ____________________________________________
À gauche de l'entrée, ____________________________________________
En face, ____________________________________________
Le loyer est de ____________ € par mois.
C'est ____________ (calme, récent, lumineux…).
Tu viens me voir ?
Bisous, ____________
How do I get there?
Speaking practiceActivity 3 — Give directions Indiquer le chemin
You're a student in Strasbourg. You live near Place Kléber. A tourist asks you for directions to:
- Rue du Vieux-Marché-aux-Vins (starting from the cathedral)
- Place de la Cathédrale (starting from Place Kléber)
Act out both scenes aloud with your partner.
📻 Listening comprehension · Compréhension orale
Task 1 — Understand a short message or instruction
Listen to the 5 short messages and match each one to a picture (a–e).
Suggested pictures: a) a red armchair — b) the sea and beach — c) a meeting / handshake — d) a clothing shop — e) a Paris apartment building.
Write your answers (Message → Picture a/b/c/d/e):
- Message 1 →
- Message 2 →
- Message 3 →
- Message 4 →
- Message 5 →
✏️ Compare your answers with a partner. We recommend correcting these together in class.
🗣️ Speaking · Production orale
Task 2 — Introduce yourself and other people
Scene 1. On the train, you start chatting with the passenger next to you. They are French — ask them about their name, city, profession, languages they speak…
Scene 2. Show them a photo of your family and introduce each person (who they are, what they do).
🎭 Role-play both scenes with your partner — entirely in French.
📖 Reading · Compréhension des écrits
Task 3 — Identify a person
Read the two text messages below and use them to identify a person among the people walking around the train station.
According to SMS 2, the brother is:
- What height?
- What hair?
- Jeans colour?
- T-shirt colour?
- Bag colour?
- Train arrival time?
💡 Tip: French uses the 24-hour clock by default — 14 h 50 = "2:50 pm".
✏️ Writing · Production écrite
Task 4 — Write a short message
You'd like to go to the restaurant Côté Sud (56 rue du Pré, 17160 Périgny — phone 05 46 55 74 03). Your friend Sébastien has emailed asking which restaurant to pick for the weekend. Reply to his email and suggest Côté Sud, including its practical details (address, phone, what kind of place it is).
De : ____________
À : sebastien_74@orange.fr
Objet : Re: Dîner
Salut Sébastien,
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
À samedi !
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