Simple French Lessons Online and Other Things Too
Listen to this iconic French song and try to fill in the lyrics in the exercise below.
This song is quite interesting in terms of learning content. Several interesting expressions are still in use today, lots of basic albeit important vocabulary. And the famous “trilling” French r that that was quite in vogue at that epoch.
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This lesson is A1 CEFR lesson to describe the weather in French in a simple way.
To speak about weather in French, there are three simple ways to do this. You can use either “Il fait + adjective”, which literally means “It makes cold / hot / bad / etc.”, or you can use “Il y a ….” (There is ….).
There are 12 sentences in this lesson followed by a quiz and exercises section.
What’s the weather like ?
It’s cold.
French vocabulary to speak about somebody’s appearance, how someone looks and how she / he is dressed.
| English | French |
| style, look | look |
| appearance | apparence |
| casual | décontracté |
| smart / elegant | élégant |
| out of fashion | démodé |
| fashionable / trendy | à la mode |
| to look tired | avoir l’air fatigué |
| to look sad | avoir l’air triste |
| to look like …. | ressembler à |
| figure | une silhouette |
Listen to the song and drag the missing French words. This is an easy version of the exercise. It consists of the first two verses of the song and the chorus.
It’s a great vocabulary exercise in describing people as it uses lots of interesting adjectives used in everyday French.
You should also pay attention to the liaison (la liaison in French) that is quite a distinctive feature of the French language. You should, no …, you must use the liaison while speaking French as it makes your speech more fluent and native like. It is true whatever the language by the way.
Each language has its number of the most important words. Their usefulness is related to their meaning and their frequency. Here we will concentrate on 10 essential French verbs. These are:
I already wrote a post about the essential French verbs a while ago, so if you want refresh your memory on the translation and the example sentences with there words, you may read the post here.
This test is a compilation of different sorts of questions. You will see a drag and drop question, fill in the blanks and a multiple choice questions. I hope it will help you improve you vocabulary.