LearnModule 4 · Lesson 23 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, completedUnit 5 · En voyage — travel

À l'hôtel

Module 4 of the free French course (CEFR A2, completed), lesson 23 of 30: The hotel night: une chambre pour deux personnes, avec salle de bains, pour deux nuits. 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 23.

The words

French	English	Say it
l'hôtelmasculine — the article elides to l'	the hotel	loh-TEL
réserver	to book	ray-zehr-VAY
je voudrais réserver	I would like to book	zhuh voo-dreh ray-zehr-VAY
une chambre pour deux nuits	a room for two nights	ewn shah(n)br poor duh NWEE
la clé	the key	lah KLAY
la valise	the suitcase	lah vah-LEEZ
l'ascenseurmasculine — the article elides to l'	the elevator	lah-sah(n)-SUHR
le petit déjeuner est compris	breakfast is included	luh puh-tee day-zhuh-nay eh koh(n)-PREE

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 hotel night: une chambre pour deux personnes, avec salle de bains, pour deux nuits. La clé, s'il vous plaît — the key.

Et aussi · And also

Je voudrais réserver une chambre — the polite want from Module 2, now booking rooms.

Attention · Watch out

une chambre is a bedroom or a hotel room; a room in general is la pièce. Ask a hotel for une chambre, never une pièce.

Do it now — on paper

Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with l'hôtel.
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 23 in Module 4 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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