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Lesson 38.03B1
Media & News
Media & News
Exams often ask B1 candidates to summarize or react to news content, so this vocabulary set focuses on talking about what's in the news and how you found out about it.
Grammar Comparison
Grammar Comparison
venir de + infinitif = 'to have just done'
French
Je viens de lire cet article.
English
I just read this article.
English 'just' is a simple adverb slotted into an ordinary past tense ('I just read'). French venir de is a fixed construction — présent tense of venir + de + infinitive — that replaces the past tense entirely: je viens de lire, not j'ai juste lu, which would be a literal but unnatural translation attempt English speakers sometimes reach for. Keep venir in the présent even though the meaning is about something that already happened.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
| French | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| les actualités (f) | lay zahk-tu-ah-lee-TAY | the news |
| une chaîne d'information | un shen dan-for-mah-see-OHN | a news channel |
| un article | uhn ar-TEE-kluh | an article |
| la une | lah oon | the front page/headline |
| un journal télévisé | uhn zhoor-NAHL tay-lay-vee-ZAY | a TV news broadcast |
| un reportage | uhn ruh-por-TAHZH | a news report |
| la presse | lah press | the press |
| un(e) journaliste | uhn/un zhoor-nah-LEEST | a journalist |
| diffuser | dee-fu-ZAY | to broadcast |
| une source | un sors | a source |
| fiable | fee-AH-bluh | reliable |
| un scandale | uhn skahn-DAHL | a scandal |
| faire la une | fair lah oon | to make headlines |
| selon | suh-LOHN | according to |