📖LearnModule 6 · Lesson 10 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, first halfUnit 2 · Work, school and the future
Mes projets — plans out loud
Module 6 of the free French course (CEFR B1, first half), lesson 10 of 30: The unit's exit: your plans, in full sentences. 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.
The words
French
English
Say it
espérer
to hope
ehs-pay-RAY
j'espère que
I hope that
zhess-PEHR kuh
devenir
to become
duh-vuh-NEER
je voudrais devenir médecin
I would like to become a doctor
zhuh voo-dreh duh-vuh-neer mayd-SA(n)
le but
the goal
luh BEWT
réussir
to succeed
ray-ew-SEER
l'examenmasculine — the article elides to l'
the exam
leg-zah-MA(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
The unit's exit: your plans, in full sentences. J'espère que je réussirai mon examen. Je voudrais devenir médecin. Après mes études, je voyagerai.
Et aussi · And also
Espérer takes que plus a real tense: j'espère que tu viendras. Say three true plans — one for this week, one for this year, one for your life.
Attention · Watch out
espérer takes que plus an ordinary tense, never the subjunctive: j'espère que tu viendras. And devenir takes no article before a job: devenir médecin.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 7 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with espérer.
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 6 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.