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: “Les Musées”
In today’s podcast, A&C are discussing what they like about museums, and fawning over some of their favourite ones, in France and in the UK. Bonne écoute !
🔠 Vocabulary Pit Stop
Here’s some useful vocabulary featured in this podcast for you to learn and/or review :
- ma foi ! = well!
- se cultiver = to educate oneself
- exposé.e = exhibited
- se focaliser sur = to focus on
- une palette à beurre = a butter paddle
- un paquebot = ocean liner
- une coque de bateau = a ship’s hull
- crapahuter = to yomp (familiar)
- ça vaut [la peine] de faire = it’s worth doing
- un rêve éveillé = a waking dream
- je-(ne)-sais-pas-combien de [choses] = I-don’t-know-how-many [things]
- le 9e arrondissement = the 9th Paris district
- être partant.e = to be up for it
Proper Nouns:
- Saint-Brieuc (Breton city)
- Bristol (English city)
- Le Pays de Galles (Wales)
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel (British engineer)
- La Severn (UK river)
- Gustave Moreau (French painter)
- Pigalle (Paris neighbourhood)
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (French novelist)
- Édimbourg (Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital)
🙉 Peux-tu entendre cette phrase ?
Ready for a little challenge? Listen out for this sentence taken from the podcast:
“Est-ce que toi, tu as un musée qui te vient à l’esprit, que tu as particulièrement apprécié ?”
To help you practise your grammar, here’s a list of Kwiziq lessons related to this sentence:
- Moi/toi/lui/elle = Me/you/him/her – simple cases (French Stress Pronouns)
- Conjugate avoir in the present tense in French (Le Présent)
- Qui = Who/which/that (French Relative Pronouns)
- Conjugate venir/tenir and derivatives in the present tense in French (Le Présent)
- Que = Whom/which/that (French Relative Pronouns)
- Conjugate regular -er verbs (+ avoir) in the compound past in French (Le Passé Composé)
✏️ More practice! More!
Want to practise your French knowledge on this topic? Have a go at these amazing Kwiziq exercises:
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- Dictée (Premium subscribers only) – Une visite au musée mouvementée (B1)
- Writing Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – Gustave Moreau Museum (C1)
- Gapfill – Au Musée du quai Branly (A2 Museum Vocabulary)
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📸 Going further
A&C have mentioned quite a few awesome museums to visit, both in France and the UK. If they sparked your curiosity and you’d like to learn more about these museums, have a look at their official websites:
🤗 À vous de jouer !
Now it’s your turn to speak! Tell us about your favourite (or least favourite!) museums in the comments below – en français bien sûr !
Allez, à bientôt, et vive les musées !
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.