What you can now do
Skills checklist🛒Grocery shopping
- Il faut du pain, de la viande
- Un kilo de farine
- Une bouteille d'eau
- Combien de pommes ?
🍽️Eating habits
- Je bois du café
- Je mange des œufs
- Je n'aime pas de viande
- 3 meals: petit-déj, déjeuner, dîner
📅Telling a past story
- J'ai mangé une pizza (avoir)
- Elle est allée à Paris (être)
- Hier, le week-end dernier…
- Pour 2 jours, dans 3 jours
🎉Talking holidays
- 14 juillet, Noël, Saint-Valentin
- Joyeux Noël ! Bonne année !
- Une excellente soirée !
- Bon appétit !
🌹Adjectives (review)
- un beau pull / un bel ami
- une belle robe
- de beaux vêtements
- très, beaucoup, un peu
⏱️Duration & moment
- il y a 3 jours (past)
- dans 2 heures (future)
- pour 1 semaine (planned)
- pendant tout l'été
📚 Grammar covered in this unit
- Partitive articles (du, de la, de l', des) + the negation rule (→ de)
- De after an expression of quantity (un kilo de, beaucoup de…)
- Verbs boire, manger, acheter in the present
- Passé composé with avoir + past participle (regular + irregular)
- Passé composé with être + agreement in gender/number
- The adjective beau / bel / belle (before vowels / silent h)
- pour / dans / il y a / pendant + duration
Two messages
Voicemail listeningActivity 1 — The shopping list Listening
You have two voice messages on your phone. Listen and write down the shopping list you need to do.
📝 SHOPPING
- 1. ____________________________
- 2. ____________________________
- 3. ____________________________
- 4. ____________________________
- 5. ____________________________
- 6. ____________________________
- 7. ____________________________
✏️ Take notes by hand while listening. Compare with your partner afterwards.
Eating habits
Magazine articleActivity 2 — A magazine article Writing
The magazine Elle à table is publishing an article on the eating habits of foreigners in France. Write a few lines for the magazine — what you have for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
In my country, people usually have ____________________________________________ for breakfast.
For me, I have ____________________________________________
For lunch, ____________________________________________
For dinner, ____________________________________________
On the weekend, ____________________________________________
A great day
Tell a friend on the phoneActivity 3 — Your shopping day Pair role-play
You went shopping today. A friend phones, and you tell them about your day. They ask questions:
- When did you go shopping? (what time)
- Which shops did you go to?
- What did you buy?
- Your friend asks for details (il est comment ? de quelle couleur ?)
🎭 Act out the scene with your partner.
A great party!
Tell the story of an eveningActivity 4 — Telling the story of a party Writing
You recently hosted a party at your place. Tell a friend about it. Be sure to cover:
- What was the occasion? (New Year's, birthday, wedding, national holiday, summer party…)
- Who did you invite? (how many people)
- What did you buy and prepare?
- What did you and your guests do during the evening?
- When did they leave?
✏️ Write 8-10 sentences. Use the passé composé (avoir + être) and time markers.
Express self-test
Check your progress20 questions to check your skills Self-test
Aim for at least 16/20 before moving on to Unit 6.
Partitive articles (4 points)
- Je mange pain.
- Tu bois eau ?
- Elle achète viande.
- Il y a légumes.
Quantities (3 points)
- Un kilo farine.
- Beaucoup sucre.
- Une bouteille huile.
Passé composé with avoir (4 points)
- Hier, j' une pizza. (manger)
- Tu les courses ? (faire)
- Nous un beau film. (voir)
- Elles le métro. (prendre)
Passé composé with être (4 points)
- Marie au cinéma. (aller, fem. sg.)
- Pierre et Paul tard. (rentrer)
- Anne et Sophie pour Lyon. (partir, fem. pl.)
- Elle hier. (arriver, fem.)
Beau / bel / belle (2 points)
- un ami
- une robe
Duration (3 points)
- Je suis parti 3 jours.
- Je reviens 2 heures.
- Il reste une semaine.