Vive l'automne !

"Vive l'automne !" has been shared to the blog from the French reading practice section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills. This article also has audio for you to practice your French listening skills; you can find many more listening activities in the French listening exercises section.


The fall is definitely Laëtitia’s favorite season! Listen to her (many) reasons in the fun bilingual article below to practise your French A1 reading and listening comprehension.

After listening to the audio, click any word for the English translation and links to related grammar lessons.

 

Click any word in the text to see its translation and related grammar lessons.

Author info

Aurélie Drouard

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!

Laura K Lawless

Laura is a French expert and Kwiziq's Head of Quality Control. Online educator since '99, Laura is passionate about language, travel, and cooking. She's American by birth and a permanent ex-pat by choice - freelancing made it possible for her to travel extensively and live in several countries before settling permanently in Guadeloupe. Laura is the author of Lawless French, Lawless Spanish, and other websites and books on French, Spanish, Italian, English, and vegetarianism. She spends most of her spare time reading, playing with food, and enjoying water sports.

Comments: 2

I really like these activities specially the audio that accompany the text reading. Students can listen to someone else's voice other than mine. It's an authentic performance skill they can have. I also would like you to share that message with Laura Lawless. I've been using her materials in my class for a long time and I am in Guadeloupe often. I would like to meet her, perhaps, we can collaborate in materials for k-12 curricula? Being in the classroom and a Language Coordinator, I see where the pitfalls lie in language education in the US. Thank you!

M

what does "tales and legends flourish" mean in the sentence "les animaux se cachent, et les contes et les légendes fleurissent"?