Camille buys fruit and cheese at the morning market
Practice A1 French in a short story where Camille buys fruit and cheese at the morning market. Tap individual words, follow line-by-line meaning, and review vocabulary from the scene.
- Vocabulary
- Story
- Support
- Grammar
- Practice
- Review
Start with the short scene first. Tap individual words when you want the vocabulary, then use the line-by-line support to confirm the full sentence before you reread it.
Core vocabulary
cheese
noun
apples
noun
market
noun
kilo
noun
hello
greeting
strawberries
noun
price
number
bag
noun
thank you
expression
basket
noun
Core text
Line-by-line support
Read each line with the direct translation beside it. Use this section to slow down and confirm exactly what each speaker says.
Hello, madam. What would you like?
Hello. I would like one kilo of apples and two tomatoes, please.
Of course. Anything else?
No, thank you. That is all.
Very well. That comes to six euros.
Grammar in context
These are the two patterns doing the most work in this lesson. Learn them as reusable sentence frames, not as isolated rules.
je voudrais
Je voudrais is a softer and more polite way to ask for food than a blunt direct statement.
de + quantity
French often uses de after quantity words such as un kilo or deux morceaux.
Extension reading
Review
Story check: What is Camille trying to do in this lesson, and what detail changes the situation?
Vocabulary check: Find fromage, pommes, marché, and kilo in the story text again. Explain what each word is doing in its sentence.
Retell: Retell the scene in two or three sentences using fromage and pommes. Then add one sentence about why the ending matters for Camille.