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La maison de France et Henri – Today’s French at French Hour

By Anne on October 24th, 2018

La maison de France et Henri

France and Henri’s House

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FRENCH

La maison de France et Henri

France et Henri Durand habitent à Louret. Louret est une petite ville de 8 000 habitants. Ils ont une maison en banlieue. Leur maison a deux étages. Au rez-de-chaussée, il y a une cuisine, une pièce de vie, un salon et un cabinet de toilettes pour les invités. Il n’y a pas de salle à manger. Au premier étage, il y a trois chambres, une terrasse, deux salles de bains, un bureau et un débarras. France et Henri n’ont pas de bibliothèque au premier. Au sous-sol, il y a un garage pour deux voitures et une cave. France et Henri y habitent depuis 10 ans.

ENGLISH

France and Henri’s House

France and Henri Durand live in Louret. Louret is a small town of 8,000 people. They have a house in the suburbs. Their house has two floors. On the ground floor, there is a kitchen, a living room, a lounge and a half-bath for guests. There isn’t any dining room. On the first floor, there are three bedrooms, a porch, two bathrooms, an office and a storage room. France and Henri don’t have a library on the first floor. In the basement, there is a 2-car garage and a basement. France and Henri have lived there for 10 years.

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Halloween vocabulary – Today’s French at French Hour

By Anne on October 20th, 2018

Halloween vocabulary – Today’s French at French Hour

Halloween vocabulary – Today’s French

Vocabulaire sur Halloween

Short list – 20 French words about Halloween

bad … m/f … mauvais/e
bad omen … m … mauvais présage
bald … m/f … chauve
bat … f … chauve- souris
black … m/f … noir/e
blood … m … sang
bloody, gory … m/f … sanglant/e
bone … m … os
brains … m/f … cerveau, cervelle
broom … m … balai
Canada … m … le Canada
candle … f … bougie
candy … m … bonbon
cemetery … m … cimetière
child … m … enfant
cobweb … f … toile d’araignée
coffin … m … cercueil
cold … m/f … froid/e
costume … m … déguisement
crooked … m/f … tordu/e

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une araignée au plafond – Mot du jour at FrenchHour

By Anne on October 18th, 2018

avoir une araignée au plafond – Mot du jour at FrenchHour

to be totally nuts – French expression

What does ” avoir une araignée dans le plafond ” mean? How do you say ‘ years old ’ in French? How is it pronounced? How is it used in a French sentence? Listen to Anne, a French native say it at FrenchHour.com.

avoir une araignée au plafond – to have a spider at the ceiling. In today’s French, the expression avoir une araignée au (dans le) plafond means that someone’s brains – le plafond – is inhabited by a wild beast – une araignée. it means that something’s wrong, that they are really out here, nuts.

« Elle a pas fait ça ? C’est pas possible, elle doit avoir une araignée au plafond. »
“She didn’t really do that? That can’t be right, she must be totally nuts.”

Try using this expression at least 4 times today.

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Halloween Expressions – Quiz – Today’s French at FrenchHour

By Anne on October 17th, 2018

Halloween Expressions – Quiz – Today’s French

To Come To Terms With, Faire Son Deuil De

Expressions pour Halloween – Interro

Here are 3 common Halloween words and expressions in French. Your job is to find the right one in this quiz.

When you’re done with the quiz, click on all the links to learn the French expression in depth and remember it.

Voici 3 mots et expressions françaises courantes: Je vous demande de la trouver dans l’interro.

Quand vous aurez fini l’interro, cliquez sur tous les liens pour apprendre l’expression en profondeur et vous en souvenir.

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Command Forms – Overview – Today’s French at FrenchHour

By Anne on October 15th, 2018

The imperative mode or command forms

L’impératif en français

We hear commands all the time. Our parents, our teachers tell us what to do, and it doesn’t get much better during our adult life.

Eat your broccoli.
Finish your homework assignment.
Have this account closed by Thursday.

Today, we’ll go over a few sentences in the command form together. Listen, read and write with me.

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Exercice – Practice

Translate the sentences from one column to another. From French to English (la version) is easier, from English to French (la thèse) a bit more challenging.
Traduisez les phrases d’une colonne à une autre. Du français en anglais (la version) est plus facile, de l’anglais au français (la thèse) un peu plus difficile.

Français

Levons-nous !
Parle-lui !
Retournez-vous !
Plaignons-nous en !

English

Let’s get up!
Talk to her/him!
Turn around!
Let’s complain about it!

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Collective numbers – Today’s French at FrenchHour

By Anne on September 15th, 2018

Collective numbers – Today’s French

Les nombres collectifs – Le français d’aujourd’hui

What are collective numbers in French? How do they work?

What are collective numbers? – C’est quoi, les nombres collectifs ?

Collective numbers are numbers used

to describe a whole group of items: une quinzaine d’amis – a group of about 15 friends
when dealing with an approximate number – higher than 7 – of items: une cinquantaine de crayons – about 50 pencils
when it’s a pack of items: une douzaine d’œufs – a dozen eggs.

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Practice – Exercice

Translate the sentences from one column to another. From French to English (la version) is easier, from English to French (la thèse) a bit more challenging.

Traduisez les phrases d’une colonne à une autre. Du français en anglais (la version) est plus facile, de l’anglais au français (la thèse) un peu plus difficile.

Français

Et avec ça, je voudrais une douzaine d’œufs. Merci.
Il y avait une trentaine de personnes à la fête.
Nous avons deux centenaires dans notre établissement.

English

And with this, I’d like to get a dozen of eggs.
There were about thirty people at the party.
We have two people who are 100 in this facility.

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