Module 5 of the free French course (CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridge), lesson 5 of 30: School vocabulary with the verbs it lives in: J'écoute le professeur. 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 5.
| French | English | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| le professeur | the teacher | luh proh-feh-SUHR |
| l'élèvemasculine — the article elides to l' | the pupil | lay-LEHV |
| la leçon | the lesson | lah luh-SOH(n) |
| j'écoute | I listen | zhay-KOOT |
| j'écris | I write | zhay-KREE |
| je lis | I read | zhuh LEE |
| je finis mes devoirs | I finish my homework | zhuh fee-nee may duh-VWAHR |
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.
School vocabulary with the verbs it lives in: J'écoute le professeur. J'écris dans mon cahier. Je lis un livre. Je finis mes devoirs.
Le professeur (the teacher) joins the cast — professeure for a woman, prof for everyone in the schoolyard.
le professeur is used for a man or a woman; professeure, with the -e, is the newer feminine form. In the schoolyard everyone says prof.
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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