Module 5 of the free French course (CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridge), lesson 10 of 30: The calendar machine, whole: Aujourd'hui, c'est jeudi douze mars. On this page: 7 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 10.
| French | English | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| quelle est la date? | what is the date? | kel eh lah DAHT |
| quelle heure est-il? | what time is it? | kel uhr eh-TEEL |
| il est dix heures et quart | it is quarter past ten | eel eh dee zuhr ay KAHR |
| quel temps fait-il? | what is the weather like? | kel tah(n) feh-TEEL |
| il neige | it is snowing | eel NEHZH |
| normal | normal | nor-MAHL |
| c'est l'hiver | it is winter | seh lee-VEHR |
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 calendar machine, whole: Aujourd'hui, c'est jeudi douze mars. Il est dix heures et quart. Il fait froid et il neige — c'est normal, c'est l'hiver!
Say today's full line — day, date, time, weather — every morning until Module 5 ends. It is the warm-up every French classroom in the world uses.
il neige is the weather verb; la neige is the snow. One is what the sky does, the other is what lies on the ground.
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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