Lesson 5: Shopping for Clothes and First Steps with the Passé Composé
Learn how to shop for clothes in French, express simple opinions, and talk about recent purchases using the passé composé.
About this lesson
This lesson builds your skills for communicating in a clothing store: asking about sizes, prices, and availability, making polite requests, and expressing preferences. We introduce the passé composé with avoir so you can talk about what you bought yesterday. Lesson 5 of 10 at the A2 level, this unit bridges the present-tense structures you've already mastered with real-life shopping situations.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Ask about size, price, and availability in a store.
- Express simple opinions and preferences (e.g. C'est trop cher, J'aime bien).
- Use the basic form of the passé composé with avoir for recent purchases (j'ai acheté…).
- Make polite requests: trying on clothes and choosing a payment method.
- Recognise common phrases used by shop assistants and respond appropriately.