📖LearnModule 10 · Lesson 18 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1 + B2 mastery, and the C1 bridgeUnit 4 · L'épreuve écrite
Le modèle de lettre
Module 10 of the free French course (CEFR B1 + B2 mastery, and the C1 bridge), lesson 18 of 30: . On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 18.
The words
French
English
Say it
l'objetmasculine — the article elides to l'
the subject line of a letter
lohb-ZHEH
la demande de remboursement
the request for a refund
lah duh-mah(n)d duh rah(n)-boors-MAH(n)
le squelette
the skeleton
luh skuh-LEHT
le corps de la lettre
the body of the letter
luh kor duh lah LEHTR
l'en-têtemasculine — the article elides to l'
the letterhead
lah(n)-TEHT
reprendre
to repeat (an element)
ruh-PRAH(n)DR
fixe
fixed
feeks
oublier un détail
to forget a detail
oo-blee-ay uh(n) day-TAHY
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La règle · The rule
The formal letter has five fixed parts and they never move: the address block, the objet (subject line), the greeting, the body, the closing formula. Learn the skeleton and you only ever write the body.
Et aussi · And also
Objet: demande de remboursement. Madame, Monsieur, Je me permets de vous écrire au sujet de... The greeting is repeated inside the closing formula, which is the detail English speakers forget.
Attention · Watch out
l'objet is the subject line and it is a noun phrase, not a sentence: Objet : demande de remboursement. The greeting is repeated word for word inside the closing formula.
recevoir — the table
je reçois · tu reçois · il/elle reçoit · nous recevons · vous recevez · ils/elles reçoivent
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with l'objet.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out recevoir in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The French Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.