Vocabulary list
French camping cookware vocabulary: 12 pieces of compact cooking kit
Pack a camp kitchen in French: learn twelve portable cooking and eating objects with pictures, compare a pan and a saucepan, then follow a packing list.
- A2
- 12 words
- Gender marked
- With examples
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In short
A camping stove is un réchaud, a saucepan is une casserole and a frying pan is une poêle. La popote can mean a compact camping cookset containing several nested pieces. These twelve cards let you choose individual objects for a French packing list.
Yellow the idea to rememberBlue French to learn
J’aime cuisiner au camping. Pour le dîner, je prends une casserole et deux bols.
I like cooking at the campsite. For dinner, I’m taking a saucepan and two bowls.
Heating and cooking
A compact set and its utensils
Eating and drinking
Pack a small camp kitchen
Find:
la casserole / la poêlesaucepan / frying pan
Focus: deep sides versus a shallow base
La soupe est dans la casserole ; les œufs sont dans la poêle.
The soup is in the saucepan; the eggs are in the frying pan.
le bol / le gobeletbowl / drinking cup
Focus: a wide eating bowl versus a taller drinking vessel
Je mange dans le bol et je bois dans le gobelet.
I eat from the bowl and drink from the cup.
| French list | Quantity | What to pick |
|---|---|---|
| deux bols | 2 | two deep bowls |
| une cuillère par personne | one each | one spoon for each camper |
| une casserole avec son couvercle | 1 + 1 | a saucepan and its matching lid |
| un ouvre-boîte | 1 | the small tin opener |
- Léa
Tu as les bols ?
Have you got the bowls?
- Sam
Oui, deux bols et deux cuillères.
Yes, two bowls and two spoons.
- Léa
Et le couvercle de la casserole ?
And the saucepan lid?
- Sam
Il est dans la popote, avec la spatule.
It’s in the cookset, with the spatula.
- Léa
Parfait. Je prends les gobelets.
Great. I’ll take the cups.