Module 4 of the free French course (CEFR A2, completed), lesson 22 of 30: The station exchange: Un billet pour Lyon, s'il vous plaît. 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 22.
| French | English | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| le billet | the ticket | luh bee-YEH |
| un billet pour Lyon | a ticket to Lyon | uh(n) bee-yeh poor LYOH(n) |
| l'aller simplemasculine — the article elides to l' | the one-way ticket | lah-lay SA(n)PL |
| l'aller-retourmasculine — the article elides to l' | the round trip | lah-lay-ruh-TOOR |
| le départ | the departure | luh day-PAHR |
| l'arrivéefeminine — the article elides to l' | the arrival | lah-ree-VAY |
| la voie | the platform track | lah VWAH |
| le quai | the platform | luh KEH |
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.
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
The station exchange: Un billet pour Lyon, s'il vous plaît. — Aller simple ou aller-retour? — Aller-retour. — Voie deux, départ à dix heures.
Le départ (departure) and l'arrivée (arrival) — the two words every station board is made of.
aller-retour is hyphenated; aller simple is not. la voie is the track a train uses, le quai the platform you stand on.
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.
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