📖LearnModule 9 · Lesson 21 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, completedUnit 5 · Le monde du travail
L'entreprise
Module 9 of the free French course (CEFR B2, completed), lesson 21 of 30: A French company has a vocabulary worth learning properly. 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 siège
the head office
luh SYEHZH
le service
the department
luh sehr-VEES
le collègue
the colleague
luh koh-LEHG
le responsable
the person in charge
luh rehs-poh(n)-SAHBL
la direction
the management
lah dee-rehk-SYOH(n)
le cadre
the executive
luh KAHDR
l'employémasculine — the article elides to l'
the employee
lah(n)-plwah-YAY
la réunion
the meeting
lah ray-ew-NYOH(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
A French company has a vocabulary worth learning properly. Le siège (head office), le service (department), le collègue, le responsable (the person in charge), la direction (management).
Et aussi · And also
Le cadre is a manager or professional-grade employee, a word with no clean English equivalent, and l'employé covers everyone else. Both appear in every job advertisement.
Attention · Watch out
le cadre is a manager or professional-grade employee, not a frame here; l'employé covers everyone else. le siège is the head office, not a seat.
recevoir, futur simple — the table
je recevrai · tu recevras · il/elle recevra · nous recevrons · vous recevrez · ils/elles recevront
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with le siège.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out recevoir, futur simple 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.