Unit 6 recap What you've covered
Four lessons, two key skills:
- 📱 Lesson 21 · Ma vie numérique → French negation (ne…pas / jamais / plus / rien / personne).
- ☕ Lesson 22 · À chacun son café → expressing cause (parce que / comme / car / à cause de / grâce à).
- 🏞️ Lesson 23 · Week-end → the gérondif (cause, manner, simultaneity).
- 🥂 Lesson 24 · La fête des voisins → expressing purpose (pour / afin de / pour que + subj).
In this review, you'll put it all into practice in 3 situations close to the DELF A2 exam format. Speaking · writing · listening — one task each.
Fête de la Musique 🎵 France's music day
On 21 June, France celebrates the Fête de la Musique — one day a year when, all over the country, musicians play for free in the streets, cafés and parks. Below is the poster for the Satellit Café in Paris: 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇦🇺 Closest equivalent: think Make Music Day (which started in France and is now in 1,000+ cities including London, New York and Sydney) — but in France it's the original, and just about every café, bar and street corner takes part.
au SATELLIT CAFÉ
🍷 10 € avec un verre après
📍 Adresse : 44 rue de la Folie Méricourt, Paris 75011
🚇 Métro : Saint-Ambroise ou Oberkampf
📞 Tél. : 01 47 00 47 07
🌐 Web : www.satellit-cafe.com
🕙 Début : à partir de 22 heures
Pick one of the two roles below. Prepare your questions (A) or your answers (B). Then act out the scene with your partner.
👤 Role A — Student
You're a student at a business school. Your student union is organising a special party at the Satellit Café for the Fête de la Musique. You meet the union president to ask for information. Read the poster carefully before you start — you need real info to ask the right questions.
💡 Prepare 6-8 questions (date, times, prices, venue, line-up, how to book, dress code, etc.)
👔 Role B — Union president
You're the president of the student union. You're organising a Satellit Café night for the Fête de la Musique. A student comes to ask for information. Answer using the poster above. Stay close to the poster — invent only small details (e.g. "you can book online before 8 pm").
💡 Use at least once: « pour que… », « en réservant… », « grâce à… »
Write your 6 questions (role A) ✏️ 4-6 questions
Before playing role A, write down the questions you're going to ask. (4-6 questions)
Invitation ✉️ Saying "no" politely
You've received this invitation card. Unfortunately, you can't make it. Write a message to Anne and Romain to apologise. 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇦🇺 A pendaison de crémaillère is the French equivalent of a housewarming party. The literal translation — "hanging the pot-hook" — refers to the old custom of hanging the cooking pot over the new fireplace.
Anne et Romain Desrochez
vous invitent à
leur nouvelle maison 🏡
à partir de 20 heures
📋 In your message, don't forget to:
- Thank them for the invitation.
- Tell them you can't come.
- Explain why (give a reason — use « parce que / à cause de »).
- Wish them a great evening.
- Promise to visit them soon.
💡 Register tip for anglophones: French message-writing is more formal than a casual British or American text. Even when refusing a friend's housewarming, you'd usually start with a greeting (Chers Anne et Romain), use full sentences, and end with a sign-off (Bises for friends, Cordialement if more distant). Don't just write "Sorry can't make it 😩" — that lands as rude.
✍️ Write your message (60-80 words) polite refusal
Birthday 🎂 Listening — RSVPs
You've organised a party for Léo's birthday this weekend. You're still waiting for a few RSVPs. Listen to the voicemails you got and complete the guest list. Listening goal: catch who's coming, who's not, and the reason given.
⚠️ You may listen twice.
🎂 Anniversaire de Léo
- ✓ Quentin — OK
- Sébastien —
- ✓ Hugo — OK
- ✓ Salima — OK
- Anthony —
- Toufik —
- École (Nicolas) — ne peut pas venir :
- ✓ Adrien — OK
- ✓ Mélanie — OK
- ✓ Leïla — OK
☝️ For each guest write "OK" or "NON + reason".
Quick self-test 10 skills to tick
Tick everything you can do after Unit 6:
✅ 8/10 or more? You can move on to Évaluation 2 (mock DELF A2) →
🔁 Less? Go back to the lessons you're unsure about.