French Conversation Podcast
In “A Bit of French with A&C” podcast series, you’ll listen to Kwiziq superstars Aurélie and Céline‘s light-hearted chats in French about fun (and random) topics. To help you practise your listening skills, these podcasts will be accompanied by some useful vocab, grammar lessons, and interesting links to go further! Bonne écoute !
🎧 Today’s podcast: “Nos Routines”
In this week’s cosy episode, A&C (that’s us!) are discussing our daily routines (with or without children!), the famous “tunnel du soir”, our (dubious) sport routines, as well as what would be an ideal day for us 😊
Bonne écoute !
🔠 Vocabulary Pit Stop
Here’s some useful vocabulary featured in this podcast for you to learn and/or review:
- établi(e) = established
- faire la grasse matinée = to have a lie-in, [US] to sleep late
- faire du bien à [quelqu’un] = to do [someone] good
- le lever = the moment you get up in the morning
- aller chercher [quelqu’un] = to pick [someone] up
- quotidien(ne) = daily
- “le tunnel du soir” = the “evening tunnel”
- s’enchaîner = to come one after another / to happen in quick succession
- dévier = to deviate
- une activité extra-scolaire = an extra-curricular activity
- si besoin = if necessary
- une contrainte = a constraint
- s’installer à son ordinateur = to sit (down) at one’s computer
- chacun de son/notre côté = to each their own / our separate ways
- la calligraphie = calligraphy / lettering
- soit… soit… = either… or…
- traître = treacherous, tricky
- une randonnée = a hike
- se remettre à [quelque chose] = to get back to doing [something]
- une séance = a session
- muscler [une partie du corps] = to strengthen [a part of the body]
- la pâte à tartiner = a spread (sweet paste)
- le parmesan = Parmesan cheese/parmigiano
- se remettre à [quelque chose] = to start [something] again / to get back to doing [something]
- être en pleine forme = to feel great, to be in top form
- avoir hâte = to be impatient / can’t wait
Proper Nouns:
- le Royaume-Uni (United Kingdom)
🙉 Peux-tu entendre cette phrase ?
Ready for a little challenge? Listen out for this sentence taken from the podcast:
“- Tu te lèverais vers dix heures, et ensuite, qu’est-ce que tu ferais ?
– Je me ferais un bon café bien fort, avec des tartines de pain, de la confiture, du chocolat…de la pâte à tartiner !”
To help you practise your grammar, test yourself with this special Notebook comprising the following Kwiziq lessons related to this sentence:
- Conjugate most French verbs in the conditional present
- Telling time in French – 24-hour clock rules = AM vs PM
- Conjugate faire in the future tense in French
- Compound nouns formed with prepositions à/de/en in French
- Du/de la/de l’/des = Some/any (French Partitive Articles)
- Compound nouns formed with [noun] + à + [infinitive] in French
🤩 NEW: 1 Special Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise
Want to practise some French grammar while enjoying a routine-themed conversation? Then you’re going to love this Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise 😍:
- Deux routines différentes (Reflexive verbs in Le Présent + Telling Time) – A1
✏️ More practice! More!
Want to practise your French knowledge on this topic? Have a go at these routine-themed Kwiziq exercises:
- Fill-in-the-Blanks – Ma routine (A1 Mixed Grammar Practice)
- Dictée (Premium subscribers only) – Ma routine linguistique (A1)
- Writing Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – My ideal day (B1)
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🤗 À vous de jouer !
Now it’s your turn to speak/write! Do you have a daily/weekly/weekend routine? What is your routine? What would you do on your ideal day? We can’t wait to read you all in the comments below – et en français bien sûr !
Bonne journée, et à bientôt les Kwizzers !
Author info
Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since. She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!
For over ten years now, Céline has been teaching French and Italian to students of all ages and abilities in the UK. This French native speaker comes from Brittany, and likes crafts, Breton dance (of course!) and Breton music which she actually played for four years. She also has a fondness for European cinema and British History.