Module 10 of 10
Putting it together
A room, a street and a week, described in French.
The artifact for this course is a place and a week: a room or a street you can actually see, described with il y a and the prepositions, and a timetable of your real week with times and days written as French writes them. Both halves are deliberately ordinary. Describing a room you are sitting in forces you to look up words you need rather than words a list gave you, and writing your own timetable means every date and every hour has to be right in a way an invented one does not.
Watch three things as you write. The article on every noun, because that is where the gender from module one shows up. The de contractions in à côté du and en face des. And the dates — day before month, lower-case months, le premier only for the first. The reviewer is reading for whether a French speaker could find the room and turn up to the class at the right time, which is a lower bar than elegance and a higher one than vocabulary.
Played by your device’s own French voice. It is a synthetic voice, not a recording of a teacher — close enough to learn the shape of a word, not close enough to copy exactly.
- Voici ma chambreThis is my room
- Il y a un lit, une table et une fenêtreThere is a bed, a table and a window
- La table est à côté de la fenêtreThe table is next to the window
- Il n'y a pas de télévisionThere is no television
- Le lundi, le cours commence à neuf heuresOn Mondays the class starts at nine
- Le mercredi, il y a deux coursOn Wednesdays there are two classes
- Le week-end, il fait beau iciAt the weekend the weather is nice here
- La gare est en face de la bibliothèqueThe station is opposite the library
Describe something real and a week that is actually yours. Articles, de contractions and date order are what gets read.
That is the last module. What you hand in is A place and a week — a description and a timetable in French — the rubric it is marked against is on the course page.