
Un voyage difficile
A difficult journey
- Reading time
- 4 min
- Total words
- 818
- Unique words
- 303
- Avg frequency
- #146
Story
, Bernard . Marc, , . Hélène, , . Léo Sophie, , . . , . ? ' '.
", j' ' Bretagne," Marc. " Paul -. . ."
" Bretagne ? ? , Marc. Cette , j' Rome," Hélène. "L'Italie, c' . C' . ."
Léo, , . ", j' . . ."
" ! !" Sophie. ", pars . Rome, c' ."
Marc . "Sophie, . Bretagne , c' . , . ."
", ! , c' Rome ! Rome cette !"
Hélène Marc. "Marc, -. Léo Sophie . . Bretagne, ."
Marc . . . . Léo . Sophie . Hélène . , ' . Léo.
Marc stays calm. thinks. thinks deeply. Nobody speaks. Léo plays with his phone. Sophie waits. Hélène waits too. In house, you cannot hear anything. Just Léo' phone.
"'," Marc . " Rome. Rome, Bretagne. Paul. C' , c' ."
"," says Marc finally. "We're going to Rome. before Rome, we spend three days in Brittany. We see Paul. ' my brother, it' ."
Hélène heureuse. " , . , . l' l'Italie."
Sophie cette . Léo . " ? , ?"
", . pars . , c' ."
Léo ' . ' ' . . C' .
, , Sophie Rome. Léo . Marc . Hélène l'Italie au .
, . . . . Bretagne ', Rome . c' , .
Comprehension drill
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Quick multiple choice on the story. Same questions appear as open-ended prompts on the printable worksheet.
Où Marc veut-il aller en voyage ?
Where does Marc want to go on the trip?
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Words in this story
| # | Word |
|---|---|
| 1 | êtreto be |
| 2 | deof, from |
| 3 | jeI |
| 4 | avoirto have |
| 5 | pasnot (in ne...pas negation) |
| 6 | àto, at, in |
| 7 | lethe (masculine singular) |
| 9 | lathe (feminine singular) |
| 11 | tuyou (informal singular) |
| 12 | una, an (masculine) |
| 13 | etand |
| 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) |
| 22 | çathat, it (informal demonstrative pronoun) |
| 23 | unea, an (feminine) |
| 24 | pourfor, in order to |
| 25 | toutall, every, quite, everything |
| 26 | pouvoirto be able to, can |
| 27 | direto say, to tell |
| 28 | dessome, of the (plural indefinite and partitive article; also contraction of de + les) |
| 30 | maisbut |
| 32 | savoirto know (facts, how to) |
| 33 | dansin, inside |
| 34 | nouswe, us |
| 40 | ythere, to it, about it (adverbial pronoun) |
| 41 | nonno, not |
| 42 | avecwith |
| 43 | plusmore; no more (in negation ne...plus) |
| 44 | monmy (masculine singular possessive) |
| 45 | voirto see |
| 47 | devoirto have to, must; duty |
| 48 | moime, I (stressed tonic first-person pronoun) |
| 50 | suron, on top of, about, over (preposition); also 'sure, certain' as the adjective sûr/sûre |
| 51 | ilsthey (masculine or mixed group) |
| 54 | commelike, as, such as, how |
| 58 | icihere |
| 60 | toiyou (stressed tonic second-person singular pronoun) |
| 62 | luihim, her, to him, to her (tonic and indirect object pronoun) |
| 65 | chosething |
| 66 | oùwhere, in which (interrogative and relative adverb) |
| 67 | riennothing, not anything |
| 69 | sonhis, her, its (masculine singular possessive) |
| 70 | prendreto take |
| 71 | penserto think |