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Bread Without Phones

Le pain sans téléphone

1:46 min video · 8 sentences · 4 key words

Transcript with English

Hide the English to test yourself.
  1. Oh non ! Mon téléphone ne marche pas !Oh no! My phone does not work!
  2. Le mien non plus, dit Hugo.Mine neither, says Hugo.
  3. Aujourd’hui, aucun téléphone ne marche, dit le boulanger.Today, no phone works, says the baker.
  4. Nous n’avons pas de carte pour choisir.We have no menu to choose from.
  5. Alors, il faut parler avec le boulanger.So we have to talk to the baker.
  6. Il nous conseille du pain aux noix.He recommends some walnut bread to us.
  7. Nous avons mangé dans le parc.We ate in the park.
  8. Sans téléphone, on parle beaucoup plus !Without a phone, we talk much more!

About this lesson

A young couple goes to a bakery in a town where nobody can use a phone for one day. They must talk to each other and to the baker to find the right bread for their picnic.

How to practise

  1. Watch once with the English subtitles to understand the story.
  2. Watch again and repeat every sentence out loud in the À toi · Your turn pause.
  3. At the end, read along with the narrator at the same time.

Key words

FrenchEnglishLevel
le boulangerthe baker
du pain aux noixwalnut bread
il fautone must, we have to
le parcthe park

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