📖LearnModule 8 · Lesson 22 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, first halfUnit 5 · Les médias et la technologie
Les réseaux et l'écran
Module 8 of the free French course (CEFR B2, first half), lesson 22 of 30: Screen life has a French vocabulary worth having exactly right: un réseau social, un écran. 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 22.
The words
French
English
Say it
le réseau social
the social network
luh ray-zoh soh-SYAHL
l'écranmasculine — the article elides to l'
the screen
lay-KRAH(n)
l'applicationfeminine — the article elides to l'
the app
lah-plee-kah-SYOH(n)
le mot de passe
the password
luh moh duh PAHS
télécharger
to download
tay-lay-shahr-ZHAY
l'ordinateur portablemasculine — the article elides to l'
the laptop
lor-dee-nah-tuhr por-TAHBL
actuellement
currently
ahk-tew-ehl-MAH(n)
le faux ami
the false friend (word)
luh foh zah-MEE
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
Screen life has a French vocabulary worth having exactly right: un réseau social, un écran, une application, un mot de passe, télécharger (to download). Un ordinateur portable is a laptop.
Et aussi · And also
Note one false friend: actuellement means currently, not actually. If a text says il travaille actuellement chez nous, it is telling you about today.
Attention · Watch out
actuellement means currently, never actually. And un ordinateur portable is a laptop; un portable on its own, in daily speech, is a cell phone.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with le réseau social.
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 22 in Module 8 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.