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Cooking in French
Quantities, recipe verbs and table talk, one recipe at a time.
Grammar through recipes. Make crêpes to learn quantities and the partitive (du, de la, des… and de), cook a vegetable soup to master the verbs of cooking and the imperative, then sit at the table: describe tastes, compliment the cook, refuse politely and discover the classics of Québec cooking, from tourtière to pouding chômeur. You finish by writing your own recipe.
Lessons
- 1
Ingredients and quantities: crêpes
Read a recipe card, say quantities (250 g, une pincée, une cuillère à soupe) and master du, de la, des… and de.
- 2
Recipe verbs and the imperative: a vegetable soup
Peel, cut, stir, simmer: the verbs of cooking, the imperative of recipes and an audio recipe to follow step by step.
- 3
At the table: tastes, compliments and Québec classics
Describe a taste, compliment the cook, refuse politely, discover tourtière and pouding chômeur, and write your own recipe.
Final assessment
Ten questions drawn from the whole course. Score 70% or more to earn your certificate.
What you will be able to do
- 01Say quantities and use the partitive
- 02Follow and give instructions in the imperative
- 03Describe tastes and compliment a meal
- 04Write a recipe
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