📖LearnModule 8 · Lesson 21 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, first halfUnit 5 · Les médias et la technologie
La presse
Module 8 of the free French course (CEFR B2, first half), lesson 21 of 30: The press has its own furniture: un quotidien is a daily paper. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 21.
The words
French
English
Say it
le quotidien
the daily paper
luh koh-tee-DYA(n)
l'hebdomadairemasculine — the article elides to l'
the weekly paper
lehb-doh-mah-DEHR
la une
the front page
lah EWN
le reportage
the news feature
luh ruh-por-TAHZH
les médiasplural
the media
lay may-DYAH
le journal de vingt heures
the evening news
luh zhoor-nahl duh va(n) TUHR
l'abonnementmasculine — the article elides to l'
the subscription
lah-bohn-MAH(n)
publier
to publish
pew-blee-YAY
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 press has its own furniture: un quotidien is a daily paper, un hebdomadaire a weekly, la une the front page, un reportage a news feature. Les médias takes a plural verb: les médias en parlent beaucoup.
Et aussi · And also
Un journal is a newspaper AND a news bulletin on television — le journal de vingt heures is the eight o'clock news. Context decides, and it always does decide.
Attention · Watch out
les médias takes a plural verb: les médias sont. And la une is the front page — the article la is part of the phrase.
lire — the table
je lis · tu lis · il/elle lit · nous lisons · vous lisez · ils/elles lisent
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with le quotidien.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out lire in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
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.