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Read a French shop offer: price, extras and availability

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Read two short French shop offers, check unit and pack prices, compare a lamp with its separate bulb and ask about an item that must be ordered.

In short

Check what the price covers: one item, a pack or a complete purchase with extras. Pièce means “each”; vendue séparément means “sold separately”. If the shop must order your chosen version, ask when you can collect it.

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Price, inclusions and stock

Deux offres en magasin

Des boîtes de rangement

Ces boîtes coûtent trois euros pièce1. Le lot de quatre coûte dix euros. Les couvercles sont compris dans les deux prix. Vous pouvez choisir quatre couleurs différentes pour le lot.

Une lampe de bureau

La lampe coûte vingt-huit euros. L’ampoule est vendue séparément2, au prix de quatre euros. Le modèle bleu est disponible aujourd’hui. Le modèle vert est sur commande3 ; nous devons vérifier le délai avant de vous donner une date de retrait.

Read it in English

Storage boxes: These boxes cost three euros each. A pack of four costs ten euros. The lids are included in both prices. You can choose four different colours for the pack.

A desk lamp: The lamp costs twenty-eight euros. The bulb is sold separately, at four euros. The blue model is available today. The green model is available to order; we need to check the lead time before giving you a collection date.

Match the offer to the objects

How do you read a French shop offer?

Four questions to keep ready
What to checkFrench questionMeaning
UnitC’est le prix d’une pièce ou du lot ?Is that the price for one item or the pack?
Included partsL’ampoule est comprise ?Is the bulb included?
Whole purchaseCombien coûtent la lampe et l’ampoule ensemble ?How much are the lamp and bulb together?
CollectionQuand pourrai-je retirer le modèle vert ?When will I be able to collect the green model?

Compris agrees with the thing included: le couvercle est compris, les couvercles sont compris, l’ampoule est comprise. In the lamp offer, nous devons vérifier le délai leaves the collection date open. Ask for that date if you need the green model by a particular day.

Before I choose

A self-review aid, not a grade. Ticks are not saved.

Question 1No account needed
You want four boxes. What does the pack cost?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

Dix euros.. Four single boxes would cost twelve euros. The offer prices the pack of four at ten euros, with lids included.

Question 2No account needed
What is the total for one lamp and one bulb?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

Trente-deux euros.. The lamp costs twenty-eight euros and the separate bulb four: the total is thirty-two euros.

Question 3No account needed
What do you know about the green lamp?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

It must be ordered and the collection date still needs checking.. The text says sur commande and leaves the collection date pending while the shop checks the lead time.

Question 4No account needed
Choose the correct agreement.

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

L’ampoule est comprise.. Ampoule is feminine singular, so the past participle used here is comprise.

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