Learn French: French Essentials – Speak Today (A1.3)

Learn fruit vocabulary and practice pronunciation by repeating a list of fruits: cherry, kiwi, banana, mandarin, strawberry, avocado, lime, raspberry, pineapple, and lemon, noting pineapple has two pronunciations.

Students continue building fruit vocabulary with the second part of the lesson, listing and repeating fruits like apple, orange, coconut, mango, grape, peach, melon, grapefruit, watermelon, and pear.

Explore the vocabulary of vegetables, including cauliflower, cucumber, eggplant, asparagus, garlic, cabbage, mushroom, broccoli, artichoke, and carrot, and preview article usage with de l'.

Advance French skills with a month-long dictation exercise designed to move from A1.2 to A1.3, reinforcing listening and spelling through guided practice.

learn the food vocabulary focused on sweet products, including toast, ice cream, croissant, biscuit, sugar, jam, pie, honey, cake, and chocolate. review the pronunciation of these items.

Explore essential food vocabulary, focusing on cereals and dairy products such as eggs, cheese, milk, bread, rice, pasta, and baguette, with pronunciation notes on final t and z.

Explore beverages, fats, and condiments as you expand food vocabulary, covering salt, oil, water, butter, mustard, pepper, coffee, wine, French fries, orange juice, soda, beer, and practice pronunciation.

Read the questions, listen to the audio, answer, and correct in the third oral comprehension exercise, using a second listen if needed, and reference the PDF with transcription and vocabulary.

Practice conjugating the second group verb 'to get fat' in the present tense, recognizing form variations and the double s sound across subjects.

Explore how French indefinite articles unite with countable, non-specific nouns, cover masculine, feminine, and plural forms, and review food vocabulary through interactive liaison-focused exercises.

Discover how to use definite articles with unique or precise countable nouns, review food vocabulary, and practice with image exercises, covering masculine, feminine, vowel, plural forms, and pronunciation notes.

Engage in translation exercises to strengthen your French language skills as you progress from A1.2 to A1.3 in a month.

Engage in a translation exercise to reinforce fundamental French skills as students progress from A1.2 to A1.3 over a month.

Master how to express quantities using 'de' or its contraction before nouns, with container terms such as bottle, glass, bowl, jar, box, slice, and bar.

Practice repeating sentences with definite and indefinite articles using love, adore, hate, and eat or drink patterns to express quantity, through foods and drinks such as honey, jam, and coffee.

Practice French translation through a structured exercise designed to move learners from A1.2 to A1.3 in a month.

Practice dictation to reinforce listening and spelling in French. Progress from A1.2 to A1.3 in a month with focused dictation exercises.

Explore how the pronoun 'EN' specifies quantities in French, with 2, a lot of, a kilo, and imperatives like eat some, take some, buy some.

Learn the second group verb 'to slim down' and its present tense forms for I, you, he, we, you, they, plus the past participle 'slimmed down'.

Master practical French restaurant dining, covering reservations and seating options, menu navigation, ordering phrases, doneness levels, and how to ask for the bill and tip.

Master the French r through phonetics, focusing on tongue placement in the throat rather than lips, with guided practice phrases.

Explore clothing and accessories vocabulary and how to describe outfits with 'to wear' and 'to have', including color examples and practice questions.

Expand clothing vocabulary by revising familiar items and adding five new pieces: dress, skirt, watch, hat, heels, and describe outfits with color details.

Describe outfits using clothing vocabulary in French, including suit, cap, vest, bow tie, bermuda shorts, sneakers, hoodie, tracksuit trousers, and jersey, with listening exercise to identify who is wearing what.

Learn clothing vocabulary for describing outfits, including winter essentials such as woolly hat, scarf, gloves, mittens, and slippers, plus shirts, coat, swimsuit, sandals, and earrings, with color-based repetition.

Practice translating French sentences to reinforce skills from a1.2 to a1.3, strengthening vocabulary, grammar, and comprehension in a concise exercise.

Engage in a dictation exercise to strengthen beginner French listening and spelling within a month, aligned with a progression from A1.2 to A1.3.

Learn how direct object pronouns replace nouns (la, le, les, l’) in French questions and answers, with contractions and informal usage shown through adjectives and liaison.

Practice direct object pronouns in the past tense with avoir, including contractions, negation with pas, and liaison with les, through memorization and repeated structures.

Practice translation exercises to advance from A1.2 to A1.3 in a month and strengthen your French language skills.

Practice oral comprehension through the fifth exercise: read the questions, listen to the audio, and answer before corrections, with the option to listen again.

Master the French present continuous to describe actions in progress. Form it with être in the present tense plus en train de and an infinitive, with examples like I'm eating.

Advance your French through a focused translation exercise module designed to take you from A1.2 to A1.3 in a month, building practical vocabulary and grammar skills.

Practice dictation to improve your French listening and spelling as you advance from A1.2 to A1.3 in a month.

Identify the common English-speaking error of diphthongizing the French 'O' in words like rose. Remember to stop the diphthong in the middle, producing a single 'O' sound.

Learn indirect pronouns in French, using à with people, and use lui for singular and leur for plural, with communication verbs like talk to, write to, and say to.

Practice using indirect object pronouns in present and past tenses through positive and negative answers, with examples like Sophie, parents, cat, friends, and Marc.

Explore the conjugation of the second group verb 'to succeed' in the present tense, noting the double 's' pronunciation and uses like réussir for exam success and achieving tasks.

Characterizing an object demonstrates how qui introduces a subject-verb relation and que marks a direct object, with examples using a Swiss knife.

Characterize objects by using 'to be used for' and 'to allow to', describe functions with infinitives and nouns, and express 'able' adjectives like waterproof or rechargeable.

Learn essential shopping phrases in French, from greetings and browsing to asking for items, trying on, sizes, pricing, discounts, and payment methods.

Practice a dictation exercise to build French listening and spelling skills from A1.2 to A1.3 in a month-long course.

Engage in the sixth and final oral comprehension exercise by reading the questions, listening to the audio, answering, and reviewing the corrections to reinforce understanding.