A1 French Story
Are You the Boss?
Vous êtes le chef ?
0:41 min video · 3 sentences · 5 key words
Transcript with English
Hide the English to test yourself.
- Vous êtes le chef ?Are you the boss?
- Non, je suis la directrice.No, I am the director.
- Super ! Je voudrais le café, alors.Great! I would like the coffee, then.
About this lesson
A nervous candidate answers an interviewer's question about his work with the wrong meaning, and the misunderstanding loops back to the first question.
How to practise
- Watch once with the English subtitles to understand the story.
- Watch again and repeat every sentence out loud in the À toi · Your turn pause.
- At the end, read along with the narrator at the same time.
Key words
| French | English | Level |
|---|---|---|
| le chef | the boss | |
| la directrice | the director (woman) | |
| le café | the coffee | |
| Je voudrais | I would like | |
| alors | so, then |
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