5. Que le festin commence ! (Let the feast begin!)

Module 5 Summary

In Module 5, you learned how to handle food-related situations, invitations, ordering, shopping, quantities, and more advanced negative expressions. You began by learning how to extend, accept, and politely decline invitations with expressions such as Tu veux venir ?, On peut manger ensemble ?, Oui, avec plaisir, Ça marche, Désolé(e), je ne peux pas, and Peut-être une autre fois.

You then learned how to order in a café using polite expressions such as je voudrais, s’il vous plaît, sur place, à emporter, c’est combien ?, par carte, and l’addition, s’il vous plaît. You also built vocabulary for common café items such as un café, un thé, un croissant, un sandwich, une salade, and une eau gazeuse.

Next, you learned food-store and food-item vocabulary, including une boulangerie, une pâtisserie, une boucherie, une épicerie, un supermarché, du pain, du fromage, de la viande, des fruits, des légumes, and de l’eau. You also practiced using acheter to talk about buying food.

You studied how articles and quantity expressions work with food and drinks. You learned the difference between le café for coffee in general, du café for some coffee, and un café for one coffee. You also practiced expressions such as un kilo de pommes, une bouteille d’eau, un verre d’eau, une tasse de café, beaucoup de, and un peu de.

You then learned the verbs boire and prendre, using boire to talk about drinking and prendre to talk about having or ordering something. You also reviewed hunger and thirst expressions with avoir, such as j’ai faim and j’ai soif.

Finally, you studied regular -re verbs such as attendre, répondre, vendre, perdre, entendre, and descendre, and you expanded your negative expressions with ne… plus, ne… rien, ne… personne, and the restrictor ne… que, meaning only.

By the end of Module 5, you should be able to invite someone, accept or decline politely, order in a café, talk about food stores and food items, use articles and quantities with food and drinks, use boire and prendre, express hunger and thirst, conjugate regular -re verbs, and form more precise negative sentences.

Module 6 will build on these skills by helping you express opinions and preferences, ask more detailed questions, describe clothing and accessories, use demonstrative articles to point out nearby and faraway things, talk about activities with -ir verbs, and refer back to people and things with direct object pronouns.