French with Ash · SLE Oral Sprint · Lesson 1
Hour one. By the end of it you can tell an examiner who you are and where you work, in French. This page is the drill that follows the lesson. Everything here aims at one target: the first two minutes of your oral exam, where they ask your name, your title, and your workplace. Type your answers, check them yourself, and say the French out loud as you go. This is a speaking exam. Silent reading will not get you there.
Type into each box, then press Enter or Check. For translation tasks more than one wording is often right, so use Show answer to compare. Accents count: if your answer is right except for an accent, the checker tells you.
In this lesson: être, avoir, je and vous, and talking about your job in the present. Not yet: the past tenses, the conditional, full conjugation. Those wait until the present is automatic. Reaching for them early is how people freeze in the room.
This is the ground floor. Every answer in your exam is built from what sits on this page: être, avoir, and talking about your work in the present. Drill each block until you stop thinking about it. If one gives you trouble, don't push past it. Open its tip, run it again.
Say everything out loud. Record your four-sentence self-introduction on your phone and listen back. This is an oral exam, so your mouth and ears do the work, not your eyes. Keep the daily listening going. Lesson 2 adds the verbs for describing your day and your tasks.
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