Le premier jour de travail
- Reading time
- 3 min
- Total words
- 667
- Unique words
- 279
- Avg frequency
- #178
Story
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Léa heureuse. . " ," Sophie. , Léa . ' . , ' , . .
Léa starts her job in a café today. It is her first day, and she is very afraid. She arrives early, in the morning. She looks at the door. She does not want to go in, but she goes in.
The boss is a tall, hard man. "Hello," he says. "You are the new one. Here, we work fast." Léa says yes, but she does not understand everything.
A woman comes over to her. She is kind. "Don't worry," she says. "The first day is hard for everyone. I'll show you." Léa is a little less afraid.
Sophie shows Léa the café. Here are the tables, the glasses, the menu. "People arrive, you listen carefully, and you carry the coffees," says Sophie.
The first people arrive. Léa carries two coffees, but she goes too fast. A glass falls. The hot coffee is on the floor. Everyone looks. Léa goes red. The boss is not pleased.
But Sophie comes quickly. "It's nothing," she says, very gently. "I did that too on my first day." Together, they make the table clean. "Don't go too fast. Go slowly, it's better."
Léa makes another coffee. This time, she goes slowly. She carries the glass with both hands, and she puts it on the table. The coffee does not fall. "Good!" says Sophie.
The hours pass. Léa learns fast. She listens to the people and carries the coffees slowly. An old man gives her the money and says: "You do your job well."
In the evening, the boss comes over to Léa. He still looks stern. "On the first day, you fell," he says. "But afterwards, you worked well. That's good."
Léa is so happy. The boss does not often say a kind word. "You've found your feet," says Sophie. In the evening, Léa leaves the café. She is no longer afraid. Now she knows that she can do this job, and she helps people. She does it well.
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Words in this story
| # | Word |
|---|---|
| 1 | êtreto be |
| 3 | jeI |
| 4 | avoirto have |
| 5 | pasnot (in ne...pas negation) |
| 7 | lethe (masculine singular) |
| 9 | lathe (feminine singular) |
| 11 | tuyou (informal singular) |
| 12 | una, an (masculine) |
| 14 | ilhe, it (masculine) |
| 15 | cethis, that, it (demonstrative) |
| 16 | nenot (first part of negation) |
| 17 | lesthe (plural) |
| 18 | faireto do, to make |
| 19 | allerto go |
| 21 | onone, we, people (informal) |
| 22 | çathat, it (informal demonstrative pronoun) |
| 23 | unea, an (feminine) |
| 25 | toutall, every, quite, everything |
| 26 | pouvoirto be able to, can |
| 27 | direto say, to tell |
| 31 | vouloirto want |
| 32 | savoirto know (facts, how to) |
| 35 | elleshe, her, it (feminine) |
| 37 | bienwell, good, very |
| 39 | dusome, any (masculine); of the |
| 42 | avecwith |
| 43 | plusmore; no more (in negation ne...plus) |
| 46 | teyou, to you, yourself (second-person singular object pronoun) |
| 48 | moime, I (stressed tonic first-person pronoun) |
| 49 | ouiyes |
| 50 | suron, on top of, about, over (preposition); also 'sure, certain' as the adjective sûr/sûre |
| 55 | venirto come |
| 57 | bongood, right, okay (adjective and interjection) |
| 58 | icihere |
| 67 | riennothing, not anything |
| 69 | sonhis, her, its (masculine singular possessive) |
| 73 | autreother, another |
| 75 | tonyour (masculine singular possessive, informal) |
| 82 | trèsvery |
| 84 | aussialso, too, as well, as (comparison) |
| 89 | maintenantnow |
| 92 | deuxtwo |
| 93 | trouverto find, to think |
| 94 | tayour (feminine singular, informal) |
| 96 | peulittle, few, not much |
| 101 | toujoursalways, still |
| 104 | hommeman, human being |
| 106 | regarderto look at, to watch |
| 109 | personneperson; nobody (with ne) |
| 110 | partirto leave, to go |