Un après-midi de pluie
- Reading time
- 3 min
- Total words
- 656
- Unique words
- 253
- Avg frequency
- #228
Story
Aujourd'hui, Léo Emma . , l' . , , , . . C' .
Today, Léo and Emma cannot go outside. Outside, water is falling from the sky. It falls hard, on the ground, on the door, everywhere. The sky is black and it is cold. It is a gloomy day without sun.
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"There is nothing to do," says Emma. She is under the table. Léo takes a book, but he does not like reading. Emma wants to sleep, but she cannot. The minutes pass very slowly. The day does not end.
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Then Emma has an idea. "Léo, look! We are going to make a house, here, under the table. With boxes!" The two children take all the boxes in the bedroom. A big box here, a small box there. They make a house of boxes, and they go inside.
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Léo looks outside. The water is still falling. "Emma, there is water everywhere. Our house is not a house. It is a boat!" Emma finds it very funny. "Yes! And I am the captain." "And I am the king," says Léo.
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The two children play. The boat goes on the water, very far. They look for gold. Emma makes a map. "The gold is here, under the big box." Léo searches. "I've got it!" he says. They play for an hour, then two hours. Inside the boat, it is warm, and they are happy.
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Mum comes into the room. "What are you doing?" "We are on a boat! We are looking for gold!" says Léo. Mum looks at the house of boxes and finds it funny. "That is a beautiful boat," she says. Then she gives the children something warm to drink.
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Evening comes. Outside, the water is still falling, but the children do not look at it any more. "This is the best day in the world," says Emma. It is dark outside, but inside the little house of boxes, all is well. The gloomy day without sun has become the most beautiful day of the week.
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Words in this story
| # | Word |
|---|---|
| 1 | êtreto be |
| 2 | deof, from |
| 4 | avoirto have |
| 7 | lethe (masculine singular) |
| 9 | lathe (feminine singular) |
| 10 | vousyou (formal or plural) |
| 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 |
| 20 | enin, to (preposition); of it, some (pronoun) |
| 21 | onone, we, people (informal) |
| 23 | unea, an (feminine) |
| 25 | toutall, every, quite, everything |
| 26 | pouvoirto be able to, can |
| 27 | direto say, to tell |
| 31 | vouloirto want |
| 33 | dansin, inside |
| 37 | bienwell, good, very |
| 39 | dusome, any (masculine); of the |
| 40 | ythere, to it, about it (adverbial pronoun) |
| 42 | avecwith |
| 43 | plusmore; no more (in negation ne...plus) |
| 49 | ouiyes |
| 50 | suron, on top of, about, over (preposition); also 'sure, certain' as the adjective sûr/sûre |
| 56 | quelquesome, a few, a little |
| 58 | icihere |
| 65 | chosething |
| 67 | riennothing, not anything |
| 70 | prendreto take |
| 79 | aimerto love, to like |
| 82 | trèsvery |
| 92 | deuxtwo |
| 93 | trouverto find, to think |
| 98 | petitsmall, little, young |
| 100 | notreour |
| 101 | toujoursalways, still |
| 102 | encorestill, again, more, yet |
| 106 | regarderto look at, to watch |
| 118 | arriverto arrive, to happen |
| 120 | mettreto put, to place |
| 126 | mondeworld, people |
| 127 | donnerto give |
| 138 | sortirto go out, to leave |
| 152 | grandbig, tall, great |
| 156 | enfantchild |
| 158 | passerto pass, to go by, to spend (time) |