A1 French Story
Madame Roux's Promise
La promesse de Madame Roux
0:52 min video · 3 sentences · 4 key words
Transcript with English
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About this lesson
A shopkeeper promises a customer at the bank that she will bring her a pastry. She keeps her word, and the customer is waiting again.
How to practise
- Watch once with the English subtitles to understand the story.
- Watch again and repeat every sentence out loud in the À toi · Your turn pause.
- At the end, read along with the narrator at the same time.
Key words
| French | English | Level |
|---|---|---|
| un rendez-vous | an appointment | |
| en retard | late | |
| le croissant | the croissant | |
| Voilà | here is |
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