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Comment cette gazelle a piégé un lion ! — Story Time
animal vocabulary · passé composé
Brains beat brawn: a clever gazelle outsmarts a lion in this fun fable. Listen for animal vocabulary and the way French tells a trickster story in the past tense.
🎬 About this episode
Brains beat brawn: a clever gazelle outsmarts a lion in this fun fable. Listen for animal vocabulary and the way French tells a trickster story in the past tense.
🔊 Key phrases for this topic
La gazelle a piégé le lion.The gazelle trapped the lion.
Le lion est très fort.The lion is very strong.
Elle a une bonne idée.She has a good idea.
Attention, c’est un piège !Watch out, it’s a trap!
Il est plus malin que toi.He’s more cunning than you.
🔑 The language point
- malin / maligne — cunning, clever: the fable adjective every French child knows.
- Fable past: a piégé, a eu, a gagné — the passé composé moves the story forward.
- More animals on the animals chart — la gazelle and le lion included.
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