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French Vocabulary | Celebrations & Bank Holidays | Christmas & More

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:08

    • 2.

      New Year & New Year's Day

      4:08

    • 3.

      Epiphany / Twelfth Night

      2:01

    • 4.

      Valentine's Day

      3:01

    • 5.

      Pancake Day

      3:21

    • 6.

      Carnival / Mardi Gras

      2:16

    • 7.

      Easter

      1:28

    • 8.

      French Labour Day

      1:44

    • 9.

      World Music Day

      1:27

    • 10.

      French National Day

      2:49

    • 11.

      Halloween

      3:11

    • 12.

      Christmas

      4:23

    • 13.

      Birthdays

      2:31

    • 14.

      Weddings

      3:28

    • 15.

      Class Project & Conclusion

      1:57

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French Vocabulary |  Celebrations & Bank Holidays | Christmas & More

In this course, we will have a look at some vocabulary related to different French celebrations and bank holidays. Here is the list of the different topics:

  • Introduction
  • New year and new year's day
  • Epiphany
  • Valentine's day
  • Pancake day
  • Carnival / Mardi gras
  • Easter
  • French labour day
  • World music day
  • French national day
  • Halloween
  • Christmas
  • Birthdays
  • Weddings
  • Class Project & Conclusion

Course Level: Beginner Level

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1. Introduction: Hello everybody and welcome to this new class. I'm delighted that you've decided to join me today for this class. We'll have a look at different celebration and bank holidays in France and learn the vocabulary, relate to it. This class is for beginner levels. The different topics will be new year and New Year's Day. The epiphany, Valentine's Day, Pancake Day, countable, Easter, French labor, they're worth music. They're French National Day, Halloween, Christmas, birthdays, and weddings. For each topic, I will be speaking in French to explain the celebration. For you to work on your listening skills. We will then summarize the vocabulary whereby world again, for you to take notes of the new vocabulary. So let's get started. 2. New Year & New Year's Day: Now let's have a look at our first celebration, New Year and New Year's Day. This song, the 31st of December. Lunar New Year. Blue tante on this song. Or fat renew villa. On the 31st of December, we celebrate New Year, less sun Sylvester, New Year's Eve. It's also another way of saying new easy if not the most common one. C2c, Silicon apple lessons divest. It's also what we call New Year's Eve. Live a unit, which means celebrate New Year's Eve. It's the verb taking from Arabia, fair lafayette to party, one of ECMO direction, to drink with moderation. Blue champagne, champagne. John said CRA, fair Lafayette, who are vague moderation, Duchamp, and Zoom will do that. During this evening, we will celebrate New Year's Eve, which means party, drink with moderation, some champagne. If we drink alcohol. Been any Happy New Year. Somebody has. We keep each other. Sweat lab, Bernini. We wish happy new year. I mean, we burn any ensemble has a sweat lab bone, any old person O'Toole doing? At midnight, we shall happy New Year's. We keys each other and we wish a happy new year to the people around us. Lu, food, our tissues, fireworks, Janelle, animal, world of food. Do not. Covid will not go village. No regard on television. We usually watch the fireworks of our CT or our town, or we watch one on TV. News, the geology, the first of January. Blue London map solution will do long loophole. Loophole me Israel to set new villainy the next day each new year, the first of January, the first day of this new year. The resolution, resolution and the resolution will set MovieLens. We make resolution for this new year. Now let's have a look again at all the vocabulary we've just seen in the video. Content on the song. The 31st of December. The New, very long new year, Blue River. Do less saw Sylvester New Year's Eve. Be careful that one is not as common as the other one. You would use novella, more revenue ne, to celebrate New Year. Phil, F2 to party. What a vague Medina. To drink with moderation. Lose champagne. Champagne. Been any Happy New Year? And somehow we kiss each other and sweat. Lebanon. We wish a happy new year. Lu foods.csv, fireworks, usual. Dolan, New Year's Day, the first of January. Resolution. Resolution. So that's it for this topic. Let's move on to the next video. Thank you. 3. Epiphany / Twelfth Night: Now let's have a look at another celebration, which is the epiphany. Epiphany, epiphany. Fedewa, the 12th Night of Hans and fat lip keyset been in France, we celebrate the epiphany, which is also called the King party. The King cake. Walk. On the 6th of January, we eat a king cake. In fact, have been just as an explanation. It used to be a driving that was put in the cake. Then I it's like a small finger in and we call it ineffective in a slice. Lou hua, the king, the queen seafood FUV in Denver clip-path would do in a low hwa Hua Hin. If you find a bin in your slice, you will become the king or the queen. In cool on a crown would do the Oozie pasty in cuan seafood Whoville F7. You also have to wear a crown if you find the bin. Now let's have a look again at all the vocabulary that we've just learned. Epiphany. Epiphany, the bean, the king or the queen. A slice in a kin cake when a crown left fed the 12th night. So that's it for this video. Let's move on to the next one. Thank you. 4. Valentine's Day: Our next celebration is Valentine's Day. February the 14th of February. Valentine's Day. Look at the VA Scylla surveillance. On the 14th of February. It is Valentine's Day. A coward and a hot inlet Who demo, a love letter, more fiancee. My own way, in effect deepens. Even let them move. My fiance sent me a card with little hearts and a love letter. A gift in what does show Kula, a box of chocolates, the flowers, flowers, the rose, roses, she agar marvellous shoe. They can't do what? The show cola, The Julie flip, the rows on-premise also received some gift, a box of chocolates, some pretty flowers, roses on top of that. Leisure design, woo, lovers, the ozone would be silly. Xuan, a design mover. Today it is love. Is there Cupid, cupid, love, cookie dough, a huge dilemma at UGA. To be in love. I love you. More fiance, Maddie? Maddie, my fiance. To me. He was in love with me. And he said, I love you. Now let's have a look at all the vocabulary that we've just seen. Less sovereign on Valentine's Day, Inlet her demo, a love letter. In what? The shoe cola chocolate box or a box of chocolates. The filler, flowers, the rose, roses, Cupid, and can't do a gift. Love Luca, hot in them. I love you. To be in love. Kettles. February the 14th of February. The XM MOOC, who love is there. So that's it for this video. Let's move on to the next one. Thank you. 5. Pancake Day: Now we're going to have a look at Pancake Day in France. Sean, Pancake Day, or can-do mass. Literally, it would be crib. Death in France, declared. Crips. Usual, DRI, see Le Chatelier. The CCAP. Today it's banking day. We are going to make some clips. Cell the cell at BU, the Zang region. Ingredients in UFO or serology. To the Islamic religion. We need a solid ball to put all the ingredients. Milk, sugar, butter, Li Xue, eggs. Be careful for that one. If you talking in the singular, you would set up enough. But the pro would be the zoo. If the zoo EKG lab, but the batter on Azure, do you, do, you should do, but it is a lab, but we add some milk, some sugar, some butter, and some eggs to make the batter. Blue for the whisk lab. Well, the frying pan or may launch to liaison regional. Only shown up well, we mix all the ingredients with a whisk and we put it on the frying pan. Fair, so Tillich have to flip the Krebs or phase. So Tillich in a footpath effect on the bacteria when it's ready, we flipped the crypts, but be careful they come form the ground. Like cool feature, gem. Do a vector, a cool feature. I'm going to eat two of them with some gem. Now let's have a look at all the vocabulary that we've just seen. Leak had Crips. First sooty leak have to flip the Crips less shown. Candle mass or pen King Day. Lab, bet, the better. The zoo exit. Blue LED milk. Sugar. Lab 12, the frying pan, the butter, jam, blue cell energy, the salad bowl, the whisk design Grigio ingredient. So that's it for this video. I hope it makes you want to make some crypts at the end of it. Let's move on to the next topic. Thank you. 6. Carnival / Mardi Gras: Now we're going to have a look at countable or multi-hop countable, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cloud or shrub, choose their usual dream. Same Mardi Gras. Today, it's multi graph. We are going to the carnival. So dig easy to dress up. Dig easy on succeed. I'm going to dress up as a wizard. And the gizmo, a costume, mask, a mask. Do dig gizmo and bought the unmask do lab BPA. My sister doesn't want a ghost. She just wants to wear a mask of a rabbit. And the Fili, the buret, the float levy, or the feeling Ilia plan. We have arrived at the parrot. There are many colorful floats. It's great. We throw lots of Confucius. Now let's summarize all the vocabulary of this neutral peak. Trough. Choose the multi graph. So dig easy to dress up. And the gizmo, a costume, mask, a mask and a parade float. That's it for this topic. Let's move on to the next one. Thank you. 7. Easter: Now we're going to have a look at our next Celebration, which is Easter. Easter egg, move on FET pack. So weekend with my brother. We celebrated easter this weekend. The zoo eggs do show cola, chocolate. And I share she'd the zoo on. So Kula, Islamism. We looked for chocolate eggs in the garden and in the house. Lake flush, the bells. Penny, a basket. Oc TUV, the crush on show cola only is amazing. Doughnut hole penny. We also fund chocolate bells. We put them in our baskets. Well then, now let's summarize all the vocabulary we've learned about Easter. Fact. Easter, eggs, leak flush, bells, do show cola, chocolate, penny, the basket. So that's it for this topic. Let's move on to the next one. Thank you. 8. French Labour Day: Now let's have a look at our next Celebration, which is Labor Day. French Labor Day in France. Left Labor Day. The first of my new some were the first of May. It is Labor Day. No. Not to work. A bank holiday. Sit down, show fairly new Natasha yoga. It's a bank holiday. We do not work today. The lily of the valley, Sumita, she aborted. Am FMI. This morning. I brought some lily of the valley to my family. So just as a side note, in France on the 1st of May, it is very common to just go and buy some lily of the valley and you offer it to you loved ones and friends. Now let's summarize all the vocabulary that we have learned. Labor Day leukemia mess. First OF MY Lumiere, the lily of the valley. Nopat have ye not to work on a bank holiday. So that's it for this topic. Let's move on to the next one. Thank you. 9. World Music Day: Now we're going to have a look at another celebration, which is word music, tech dilemma music, world, music De Xuan, the 21st of June. Select fet that I music callosum Lewontin Xuan. Today, it's well music day as we are the 21st of June. The concept gigs or concepts. The musician, musicians don't have to play in the streets. Plan to conserve a plant, a musician, Qi Zhu. There are many gigs and many musician who are playing in the streets. Now let's have a look at all the vocabulary that FET dilemma music. Where the music tech blue bounty on Xuan, the 21st of June. Way, roof to play in the streets. The concepts, concepts, the musician, musicians. So that's it for this video. Let's move on to the next one. Thank you. 10. French National Day: Now we're going to have a look at French National Day. Blue kettles via best T day, or literally the 14th of July, left fat national, national day, sealer ketones Zhou to left fatness unit. It is the 14th of July to that of the French National de la st. Best T says, French Revolution. On meal set socket, whoever enough. A please desu, found all our Revolution. In 1789. The best team was taken by storm during the French Revolution, which is the French national anthem. Blue, the CPU, the flag, Lu Bu tricolor, the tricolor flag. And just for your information, when we mentioned Lumetri color as a flag, even if there's many, many flags that have three colors, it will always be recognized as the French flag. And say label set Jony, or short-term La Marseillaise edu cu Piccola, D2 or false. We celebrate this day by singing La Marseillaise. There is the tricolor flag everywhere in France. Tcs, fireworks, loose swash, Iliad, the food, RT, She's only the elite village on phones. In the evening. There are fireworks in the cities and in the villages. Inference. Now let's summarize older vocabulary. Look at those. We literally 1440 July, but known as Feste the left fatness human, National Day. For the artifice, fireworks, la Revolution francaise, the French Revolution. Best De La Marseillaise, which is the French national anthem. And Apple, the flag. Click with the tricolor flag, which is also the French flag. So that's it for this video. Let's move on to the next one. Thank you. 11. Halloween: Now let's have a look at another celebration, which is Halloween. Halloween, Halloween, October, the 31st of October. October. We're going to celebrate Halloween tonight. We have the 31st of October. A monster and fought tomb, a ghost, skillet, a skeleton in South Asia. But which two meso me, through the Gies, almost all Fontan on skillet, who also share. All my friends are dressing up as a monster, a ghost, a skeleton, or a witch. The bom, bom candies or sweets. Fast, free on these tricks. So treats happy or bot will avoid DB2, con law, person overlap part and z fossil freons is we're going to knock on doors to get some candies. When someone opens the door, we said tricks or treats you in missile or a haunted house. Leucine chair, the cemetery. Over alli, amazing anti diarrhea leucine tier. After we going to a haunted house, which is situated behind a cemetery. This c2 from kings. He met the seat holy divine MSM. I'm going to prepare the declaration and put some bumpkins in front of the house. Now let's summarize all the vocabulary. Alu, when Halloween Lou taught in October, the 31st of October, libor more candies or sweets, bumpkins in subsea a, which are most a monster. And fine-tune. The ghost chair, the symmetry. In MSM, auntie, a haunted house, and Skillet, the skeleton. And finally, focus on these tricks. So treats. That's it for this topic. Let's move on to the next one. Thank you. 12. Christmas: Now we're going to have a look at another celebration, which is Christmas. Christmas Eve. Ivanka, this on the 24th of December. Vasily, very little to no L. So, sois, lumen catheter, dissemble, lead down to Turkey. The oysters, Lavish, The NOAEL, the Christmas log. Do lead down the street. Do Labouchere, the Noel, a doctor, speciality concepts. We are going to eat some turkey, some authors, some Christmas load and some other French specialties. The receptor, the NOAEL to Christmas tree. Liberal rubles, league gear, long and thin zones. You will need the star. The only cellular means I have more Lusaka, the NOAEL, me, the push, the gear long that eight unit will do. In the living room, we have the Christmas tree. We put red ball balls, green pterosaur and a golden star on it. Christmas look thermoneutral, center, close, clear then reindeer. Blood thinner, the sludge. Burnham Dinesh, a snowman. Do know l parallel, plate n is 13. No mention of what? It is Christmas night. I'm looking at the window to see Center close the render years and his sludge, there are only see my snowman blue one song, the song the 25th of December. The fireplace, Leganto, the presence on the Louvain scientists on solar Sepah, shimmy, Ilia. It's the 25th of December under the Christmas tree and the fireplace. They are present. Zhuan Ye, Merry Christmas to Lamont three Xun Noel. Everybody is shouting Merry Christmas. Now let's summarize vocabulary. Noel Christmas. Lu Xun cat this on the 24th of December. On Sunday, Sunday, the 25th of December. The Noel Christmas Eve lapel, Noel center close. Merry Christmas. Lusaka, the NOAEL, the Christmas tree. Leganto, the presence, lab bool, the bubble, like Gilliland, the teen zone. Learn when the reindeer, the sledge, less sugar, meaning the fireplace. Bonum, Dinesh, a snowman, a star, rubbish, the Noel Christmas slug, lead down to Turkey. These wheat, the oysters. So that's it for this topic. Let's move on to the next one. Thank you. 13. Birthdays: Now let's have a look at our next Celebration, which is birthdays and uneven above the Fed, then versa, a birthday party. Many versa. In Fed, Danny versa. Today, it is my birthday. My mother organized a birthday party. And I can't do a gift in cat then IV XOR a birthday card to Ms. Amy, and can't do in cat then either say, all my friends have arrived and brought me a gift and a birthday card. Joie use any versa. Happy Birthday, the battle balloons. To learn shan't joie use any versa. Everybody is singing happy birthday balloons in the kitchen. And get to a birthday cake. Candles. To make a wish. You get to Danny versa. Labouchere is you see, I can see my birthday cake, I blow the candles and I make a wish. Now let's summarize all the vocabulary and many vaccines. A birthday, and get to a cake. Leica do the gift above, takeout. Candles. In FET, Danny versa, the birthday party, Mecca wish balloons. So that's it for this topic. Let's move on to our last celebration. Thank you. 14. Weddings: Now, next celebration is about weddings. The wedding ceremony. The ceremony uniquely is a church. Lamb Mary, the town hall. New Zeno, Malia do set a money during those uniquely is a elementary. We are going to a wedding today. They are two ceremonies, one in the church and one in the town hall. The groom, the bride, lithium, or the witnesses. The doom was l. Don't know. The bridesmaids. A llama, VNTR levy. A more elite tomb was a donor to grow and the bride just derived. I can also see the witnesses and the bride's maid. Glucose to the suit. Law hub, don't marry the wedding dress. The zillions, the wedding rings. Lucas to do it. Rebel, MLA hub. In many feet. These aliens, the suit of the girl, is very beautiful, but the wedding dress of the bride is magnificent. They are going to extend their wedding ring. Do you think to throw rice? Blue bouquet, bouquet, insert, delete these noodles. Rutan UV, law married a Jetson bouquet, is the more happy. They are leaving the church. We are following rice at them. The bride throws her bouquet and it's me who quoted the Linder meal, the honeymoon drummer part here on Linda, me add overlays ELA. Tomorrow they're going on their honeymoon to Brazil. Now let's summarize all the vocabulary of this topic. The wedding, the groom, the bride, the doom was l. Don't know. The bride's maid. Lately is the church, Lamb Mary to town home, rooted UV to throw rice, glucose to the suit law hub, the Maori, the wedding dress, the xylenes, the wedding rings. Tim War. Two Witnesses. Blue bouquet, the bridal bouquet. Now Linda meal, the honeymoon, less Sylvia money. The ceremony. So that's it for this topic. That was our last celebration. Let's move on to the next video where we will have a look at your class project and everything that we have learned today in this class. Thank you. 15. Class Project & Conclusion: Well done everybody. We are now at the end of the class. It's your turn to practice. Don't forget to download the PDF in the project section for more information. For this class project, could you answer the following questions? Kelly, the effect for ALU when Cook 32. I mean, do you know velar? Kelly lead that the left fatness urinal Francaise. As she said to me, como D2, happy birthday. Or FAFSA could watch movie. Don't like gallon, the comfort to know L cross. And finally, could shed tone. Surely Marie loved Dharma while collage. Now let's summarize what we have learned today. We have seen vocabulary related to different celebration like New Year and New Year's Day. Dap fannie, Valentine's Day, Pancake Day, carnival, Easter, French Labor Day, world music day, French National Day, Halloween, Christmas, birthdays and wedding. Let me know if you have any question in the discussion section below. Thank you for watching this class. And click would pay a premium to Ofwat.