You are at a French market stall and nobody speaks English. You want fruit. What do you actually need to say: a hello, the fruit, how many, a polite word, and a thank you?
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Name eight fruits in French with le or la
- Ask for two of something, or a kilo, with s'il vous plaît
- Wrap the order in Bonjour, Merci and Au revoir
- Explain one market custom from France
Tap each fruit on the table, listen, then say it back together. First pass: all eight with the pictures. Second pass: drill the trickier ones again. Notice le and la as you go, and listen for the sound in l'orange (like the s in treasure).
Buying frames (keep these on the board all lesson):
Deux ______, s'il vous plaît. (Two ______, please.)
Un kilo de ______, s'il vous plaît. (A kilo of ______, please.)
Singular to buying form:
la pomme becomes deux pommes | la fraise becomes un kilo de fraises
Rule: after deux or un kilo de, drop le/la and use the plural.
Plurals for the gaps:
pommes (POM) · bananes (bah-NAN) · oranges (oh-RAH(n)zh) · citrons (see-TROH(n)) · fraises (FREZ) · raisins (reh-ZAH(n)) · poires (PWAR) · cerises (suh-REEZ)
For orange by the kilo: un kilo d'oranges (de + orange contracts to d').
Worked models:
Deux pommes, s'il vous plaît. (duh POM, seel voo PLAY)
Un kilo de fraises, s'il vous plaît. (uh(n) kee-LOH duh FREZ, seel voo PLAY)
Market shell (hello, order, thank you, goodbye):
Bonjour (bon-ZHOOR): hello
Merci (mair-SEE): thank you
Au revoir (oh ruh-VWAR): goodbye
Your teacher will give you a bingo card. Listen carefully and mark each fruit as you hear it. First full line calls out. Whisper the French word (with le or la) as you mark it so the sound sticks.
Open your copy. The two frames stay large on the board. Choose any two fruits from the word-table. Copy each frame and fill only the fruit gap. Keep the accents and s'il vous plaît.
Deux ______, s'il vous plaît.
Un kilo de ______, s'il vous plaît.
Worked examples: Deux cerises, s'il vous plaît. · Un kilo de poires, s'il vous plaît.
Spin the wheel. When it lands on a fruit, every pair first whispers a full mini-order to each other, then one volunteer says it aloud to the class stall.
Your mini-order (use the frames still on the board):
Bonjour.
Deux ______, s'il vous plaît. or Un kilo de ______, s'il vous plaît.
Merci. Au revoir.
Class stallholder replies:
Voilà (vwah-LAH) · Bien sûr (byah(n) SOOR)
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