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Un voyage difficile
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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

Curriculum
126 words
#Word
1êtreto be
2deof, from
3jeI
4avoirto have
5pasnot (in ne...pas negation)
6àto, at, in
7lethe (masculine singular)
9lathe (feminine singular)
11tuyou (informal singular)
12una, an (masculine)
13etand
14ilhe, it (masculine)
15cethis, that, it (demonstrative)
16nenot (first part of negation)
17lesthe (plural)
18faireto do, to make
19allerto go
20enin, to (preposition); of it, some (pronoun)
21onone, we, people (informal)
22çathat, it (informal demonstrative pronoun)
23unea, an (feminine)
24pourfor, in order to
25toutall, every, quite, everything
26pouvoirto be able to, can
27direto say, to tell
28dessome, of the (plural indefinite and partitive article; also contraction of de + les)
30maisbut
32savoirto know (facts, how to)
33dansin, inside
34nouswe, us
40ythere, to it, about it (adverbial pronoun)
41nonno, not
42avecwith
43plusmore; no more (in negation ne...plus)
44monmy (masculine singular possessive)
45voirto see
47devoirto have to, must; duty
48moime, I (stressed tonic first-person pronoun)
50suron, on top of, about, over (preposition); also 'sure, certain' as the adjective sûr/sûre
51ilsthey (masculine or mixed group)
54commelike, as, such as, how
58icihere
60toiyou (stressed tonic second-person singular pronoun)
62luihim, her, to him, to her (tonic and indirect object pronoun)
65chosething
66where, in which (interrogative and relative adverb)
67riennothing, not anything
69sonhis, her, its (masculine singular possessive)
70prendreto take
71penserto think