📖LearnModule 9 · Lesson 23 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, completedUnit 5 · Le monde du travail
Les droits et les syndicats
Module 9 of the free French course (CEFR B2, completed), lesson 23 of 30: Rights at work are a normal conversation topic in France. 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 23.
The words
French
English
Say it
le syndicat
the trade union
luh sa(n)-dee-KAH
le droit du travail
employment law
luh drwah dew trah-VAHY
le licenciement
the dismissal
luh lee-sah(n)-see-MAH(n)
revendiquer
to demand as a right
ruh-vah(n)-dee-KAY
le salarié
the wage earner
luh sah-lah-RYAY
la négociation
the negotiation
lah nay-goh-syah-SYOH(n)
le délégué
the representative
luh day-lay-GAY
collectif
collective
koh-lehk-TEEF
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
Rights at work are a normal conversation topic in France, and the vocabulary is worth having. Le droit du travail, le syndicat (trade union), la grève, la négociation, le licenciement (dismissal).
Et aussi · And also
Revendiquer is to demand as a right, and it is the verb the news uses: les salariés revendiquent une augmentation. Compare with demander, which is merely to ask.
Attention · Watch out
revendiquer is to demand as a right; demander is merely to ask. le licenciement is a dismissal, not a license.
élire, voix passive — the table
il est élu · elle est élue · ils sont élus · elles sont élues
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with le syndicat.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out élire, voix passive 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.