5.1.2
Festivals & Customs (1/2)
Les Fêtes Françaises - French Festivals
Les Fêtes Françaises - French Festivals


Key vocab
Key vocab
- Les feux d’artifice (🎆) - fireworks.
- Un jour férié - a bank holiday.
- Le défilé - procession.
- La messe - mass.
- Le Jour de l'An - New Year's Day.
- La Saint-Sylvestre - New Year's Eve.
- Pâques - Easter.
- La veille de Noël - Christmas Eve.


Les fêtes
Les fêtes
- Tout le monde aime les jours fériés, parce qu'on ne doit pas travailler.
- Everyone likes bank holidays, because you don't have to work.
- Quand on fête la Saint-Sylvestre, il y a toujours des feux d’artifice (🎆) à minuit.
- When you celebrate New Year's Eve, there are always fireworks at midnight.
- Chaque veille de Noël, je vais à la messe.
- Every Christmas Eve, I go to mass.


Fête préférée
Fête préférée
- Quel est votre fête préférée?
- What is your favourite holiday?
- J'adore la nourriture, donc ma fête préférée devrait être Noël. On mange beaucoup de nourriture et on passe du temps avec sa famille. C'est génial.
- I love food, so my favourite holiday would have to be Christmas. You eat a lot and spend time with your family. It is great.
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1.1Time Expressions
1.2Food & Drink
1.3The Human Body & Health
2Personal & Social Life
2.1Self, Family & Friends
2.2In the Home
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3The World Around Us
3.1People & Places
3.2Natural World, Environment, Climate & Weather
3.3Communications & Technology
3.4The Built Environment
3.5Measurements
3.6Materials
4The World of Work
4.1Education
5The International World
6Common Tenses
6.1Present Tense
6.1.1Regular ER Verbs
6.1.2Regular IR Verbs
6.1.3Regular RE Verbs
6.1.4Reflexive Verbs
6.1.5Irregular ER Verbs (1/2)
6.1.6Irregular ER Verbs (2/2)
6.1.7Irregular IR Verbs (1/2)
6.1.8Irregular IR Verbs (2/2)
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6.1.12Present Participle (1/2)
6.1.13Present Participle (2/2)
6.1.14Irregular Present Participles
6.1.15Avoir & Être
6.1.16'Depuis' + Present Tense
6.1.17'Venir De' + Present Tense
6.2Perfect Tense
6.3Imperfect tense
6.4Imperfect vs Perfect
7Advanced Tenses
7.1Conditional Tense
8Extra Grammar
8.1Articles
8.2The Passive Voice
8.3Pronouns
8.3.1Personal Pronouns (1/2)
8.3.2Personal Pronouns (2/2)
8.3.3Reflexive Pronouns
8.3.4Direct Object Pronouns: Le, La, Les, L'
8.3.5Direct Object Pronouns: Agreement
8.3.6Direct Object Pronouns: Imperative
8.3.7Indirect Object Pronouns: Lui, Leur
8.3.8DO & IO Pronouns: Combination
8.3.9Demonstrative Pronouns
8.3.10Neutral Demonstrative Pronouns
8.3.11Interrogative Pronouns
8.3.12Relative Pronouns
8.3.13Possessive Pronouns
8.3.14Indefinite Pronouns
8.3.15Ça, Cela
8.3.16Celui
8.3.17Emphatic Pronouns
8.4Asking Questions
8.5Nouns
8.7Adverbs
8.8Adjectives
8.9Negative
8.10Conjunctions
8.11Miscellaneous
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1Everyday Activities
1.1Time Expressions
1.2Food & Drink
1.3The Human Body & Health
2Personal & Social Life
2.1Self, Family & Friends
2.2In the Home
2.4Clothes & Accessories
3The World Around Us
3.1People & Places
3.2Natural World, Environment, Climate & Weather
3.3Communications & Technology
3.4The Built Environment
3.5Measurements
3.6Materials
4The World of Work
4.1Education
5The International World
6Common Tenses
6.1Present Tense
6.1.1Regular ER Verbs
6.1.2Regular IR Verbs
6.1.3Regular RE Verbs
6.1.4Reflexive Verbs
6.1.5Irregular ER Verbs (1/2)
6.1.6Irregular ER Verbs (2/2)
6.1.7Irregular IR Verbs (1/2)
6.1.8Irregular IR Verbs (2/2)
6.1.9Irregular RE Verbs (1/3)
6.1.10Irregular RE Verbs (2/3)
6.1.11Irregular RE Verbs (3/3)
6.1.12Present Participle (1/2)
6.1.13Present Participle (2/2)
6.1.14Irregular Present Participles
6.1.15Avoir & Être
6.1.16'Depuis' + Present Tense
6.1.17'Venir De' + Present Tense
6.2Perfect Tense
6.3Imperfect tense
6.4Imperfect vs Perfect
7Advanced Tenses
7.1Conditional Tense
8Extra Grammar
8.1Articles
8.2The Passive Voice
8.3Pronouns
8.3.1Personal Pronouns (1/2)
8.3.2Personal Pronouns (2/2)
8.3.3Reflexive Pronouns
8.3.4Direct Object Pronouns: Le, La, Les, L'
8.3.5Direct Object Pronouns: Agreement
8.3.6Direct Object Pronouns: Imperative
8.3.7Indirect Object Pronouns: Lui, Leur
8.3.8DO & IO Pronouns: Combination
8.3.9Demonstrative Pronouns
8.3.10Neutral Demonstrative Pronouns
8.3.11Interrogative Pronouns
8.3.12Relative Pronouns
8.3.13Possessive Pronouns
8.3.14Indefinite Pronouns
8.3.15Ça, Cela
8.3.16Celui
8.3.17Emphatic Pronouns
8.4Asking Questions
8.5Nouns
8.7Adverbs
8.8Adjectives
8.9Negative
8.10Conjunctions
8.11Miscellaneous
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