Lesson 4: Shopping in the City & First Steps with the Passé Composé
Discover how to shop and navigate the city, and take your first steps with the passé composé to talk about things you did yesterday.
About this lesson
In Lesson 4, we practise the language of shopping (prices, sizes, trying things on), asking for and giving directions around the city, and get a solid introduction to the passé composé for describing recent events. We work with high-frequency vocabulary and expressions, mini-dialogues, and short 'yesterday' narratives. The topics are woven together through hands-on tasks so you can speak confidently about shopping trips and getting around town.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Ask about prices and sizes, and request to try on a piece of clothing.
- Express simple preferences and opinions about products and shops.
- Ask for and give basic directions in an urban setting.
- Describe recent past actions using the passé composé (avoir with regular -er verbs and several common irregular verbs; être with aller).
- Understand short spoken messages related to shopping and getting around.