Lesson 24: Transportation & Daily Transactions

🇫🇷 Cultural Insight: French Rail

SNCF operates TGV trains reaching 320km/h. "Les contrôleurs" (ticket inspectors) check billets during journeys.

📚 Core Concepts

• Phrases:
  "Un billet aller-retour pour Lyon, s'il vous plaît" (Round-trip ticket)
  "À quelle heure est le prochain train?" (Next train time)
• Connectors:
  "Je veux partir tui mais j'arrive tard" (but)

🎯 Teaching Mission

Create a dialogue script for buying tickets using 3 connectors (mais, donc, car). Include time expressions.

🇫🇷 Cultural Insight: French Airports

CDG (Paris) has "halles" numbered 1-3. "Embarquement" means boarding - listen for "dernier appel" (final call).

📚 Core Concepts

• Expressions:
  "Un vol direct pour Marseille" (direct flight)
  "À quinze heures trente" (3:30 PM)
• Negation:
  "Il n'y a pas de retard" (There's no delay)

🎯 Teaching Mission

Design a flight booking form in French with 5 fields. Include morning/afternoon time options.

🇫🇷 Cultural Insight: Café Etiquette

Say "Un café, s'il vous plaît" at the counter. "Un express" is a shot, "un allongé" is American-style.

📚 Core Concepts

• Orders:
  "Je ne veux pas de sucre" (No sugar)
  "Un croissant aussi, s'il vous plaît"
• Time:
  "À huit heures du matin" (8 AM)
  "L'après-midi" (afternoon)

🎯 Teaching Mission

Prepare 4 coffee order scenarios using negation ("ne... pas") and time markers.

🇫🇷 Cultural Insight: French Logic

French arguments use "car" (because) for explanations. "Donc" (therefore) shows consequence.

📚 Core Concepts

• Connectors:
  "Je veux du thé ou du café" (or)
  "Ni l'un ni l'autre" (neither)
• Time Precision:
  "Dix-neuf heures quarante-cinq" (7:45 PM)

🎯 Teaching Mission

Create 5 complex sentences combining connectors and military time. Ex: "Le train part à 18h30 donc..."