LearnModule 3 · Lesson 10 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, first halfUnit 2 · Le futur proche, and new verb families

Ma routine — routine with times

Module 3 of the free French course (CEFR A2, first half), lesson 10 of 30: Module 2's clock meets your verbs: Je commence l'école à huit heures et demie. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 10.

The words

French	English	Say it
commencer	to start	koh-mah(n)-SAY
je commence à huit heures	I start at eight	zhuh koh-mah(n)s ah weet UHR
je finis à trois heures	I finish at three	zhuh fee-nee ah trwah ZUHR
travailler	to work	trah-vah-YAY
je travaille	I work	zhuh trah-VAHY
la routine	the routine	lah roo-TEEN
après	after	ah-PREH
avant	before	ah-VAH(n)

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

Module 2's clock meets your verbs: Je commence l'école à huit heures et demie. Je finis à trois heures. Le soir, je vais lire.

Et aussi · And also

Three tenses now live in one day: this morning (passé composé), right now (présent), tonight (futur proche).

Attention · Watch out

avant (before) and après (after) stand alone or take a noun: après l'école. They do not take que yet — that arrives at B1.

Do it now — on paper

Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with commencer.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 10 in Module 3 are the written half of this page.

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.

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