Le travail at A1 — jobs & what you do
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Say your job and ask others theirs — no article needed!
📓 Les métiers de base
1🔊
a job/work
2🔊
to work
3🔊
a teacher
4🔊
a doctor
5🔊
a student
6🔊
an office
7🔊
a shop assistant
8🔊
a cook
9🔊
to earn
10🔊
what do you do?
🔊 Example sentences
Je suis professeur.I’m a teacher.
Elle travaille dans un bureau.She works in an office.
Qu’est-ce que tu fais dans la vie ?What do you do for a living?
💡 Your A1 goal
At A1 your goal is recognition and first use: understand the pattern when you hear it, and produce the two or three simplest forms without thinking. Accuracy over ambition — short and correct beats long and broken.
Comfortable? Level up to Le Travail at A2.
Il est médecin à Paris.He’s a doctor in Paris.
✍️ Practice
Je ___ professeur. (am — no article!) (être)
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suis
Elle ___ dans un magasin. (works) (verbe)
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travaille
Qu’est-ce que tu ___ dans la vie ? (question)
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fais
🎮 Practise
🃏 Memory match pair FR ↔ EN
🎮 Practise this with games
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