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French event vocabulary: read the programme and find your role
Read lecture, conférence, assister à and participer à in a neighbourhood programme. Learn event words with pictures and choose the right activity.
- A2
- 8 words
- Gender marked
- With examples
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In short
A lecture publique is a public reading; a conférence is a talk. Assister à means attend, participer à means take part and aider à means help with a task. Read the verb beside the person’s name to find their role.
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What is on?
What does the person do?
| Heure | Activité | Pour venir |
|---|---|---|
| 14 h | Lecture publique de trois poèmes, suivie d’un échange. | Entrée libre. |
| 15 h | Conférence de Noé sur la photographie. | Réservation conseillée. |
| 16 h 30 | Atelier d’écriture avec Lina. | Inscription obligatoire. |
At 14 h you hear poems read aloud. At 15 h Noé gives a talk; the word conférence fits that presentation. At 16 h 30 the workshop asks you to write. Réservation conseillée recommends booking, while inscription obligatoire makes registration a condition of joining the workshop.
At the venue
Find:
- Maya
J’aide à préparer la salle, puis j’assiste à la lecture.
I help prepare the room, then I attend the reading.
- Lina
Moi, je participe à l’atelier. J’ai envie d’écrire.
I’m taking part in the workshop. I feel like writing.
- Noé
Je donne la conférence à quinze heures.
I’m giving the talk at three o’clock.
The same person can help first and attend afterwards. Assister à tells you that Maya is present at the reading; it gives her a different role from the person reading the poems. To ask about booking, use Faut-il réserver une place ?