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French picnic-area vocabulary: find everything on the blanket
Explore twelve French picnic words, from a cool box to a water bottle, then follow a packing-and-placement game with short French instructions.
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In short
For a picnic, la couverture is the blanket, la glacière keeps food cool and la gourde is a refillable water bottle. Dans le panier means inside the basket; sur la couverture means on the blanket. Explore twelve things, then follow the packing-and-placement game.
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Look on the blanket and just beyond it
Find:
| Clue | Example | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| dans | dans le panier | inside the basket |
| sur | sur la couverture | on the blanket |
| près de | près de l’assiette | near the plate |
Le déjeuner au parc
Mina ouvre le panier et sort les assiettes. « La couverture est prête. Pose les gobelets près des assiettes, s’il te plaît. » Hugo apporte la glacière. Il prend un sandwich et une pomme. Mina remplit sa gourde, puis ferme la boîte à provisions. Après le déjeuner, ils rangent les gobelets dans le panier. Hugo cherche une poubelle pour les papiers. Elle est près de la table de pique-nique. Mina secoue la couverture avant de partir.
Mina opens the basket and takes out the plates. “The blanket is ready. Put the cups near the plates, please.” Hugo brings the cool box. He takes a sandwich and an apple. Mina fills her water bottle, then closes the food container. After lunch, they put the cups in the basket. Hugo looks for a bin for the papers. It is near the picnic table. Mina shakes out the blanket before leaving.
Sort les assiettes: takes out the plates; range: puts away; secoue: shakes out.
Une assiette is feminine; un gobelet is masculine. Here une serviette is a napkin for eating. The same word also means a towel in a bathroom. In the game, each instruction changes the starting picture: choose where the object should go next.