📖LearnModule 9 · Lesson 3 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, completedUnit 1 · Le récit écrit
Les marqueurs du récit
Module 9 of the free French course (CEFR B2, completed), lesson 3 of 30: A story needs signposts. 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 3.
The words
French
English
Say it
dès que
as soon as
DEH kuh
au moment où
just as
oh moh-mah(n) OO
une fois que
once (in time)
ewn FWAH kuh
à peine
hardly
ah PEHN
sonner
to ring
soh-NAY
aussitôt
immediately
oh-see-TOH
entre-temps
meanwhile
ah(n)-truh-TAH(n)
le lendemain matin
the next morning
luh lah(n)d-ma(n) mah-TA(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 story needs signposts, and French has better ones than à ce moment-là repeated six times. Dès que (as soon as), au moment où (just as), une fois que (once), à peine... que (hardly... when).
Et aussi · And also
Dès qu'il est arrivé, tout a changé. Au moment où je sortais, le téléphone a sonné — notice the imparfait for the interrupted action, exactly as in Module 1 of this band.
Attention · Watch out
dès que and une fois que take the indicative, and the FUTURE when the meaning is future: dès qu'il arrivera. entre-temps is one hyphenated word for meanwhile.
venir, plus-que-parfait — the table
il était venu · elle était venue · ils étaient venus · elles étaient venues
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with dès que.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out venir, plus-que-parfait 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.