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234Dialogue · A2
Helping your child with homework
Situation
After school, your child does homework. You help while letting them work alone.
The roles
- Your childListen
J'ai des devoirs de mathématiques. Je ne comprends pas le numéro trois.
I have math homework. I don't understand number three.
- YouListen
On regarde ensemble. Lis-moi l'énoncé.
Let's look together. Read me the problem.
- Your childListen
« Marie a dix pommes. Elle en donne trois à son ami. Combien en reste-t-il ? »
« Marie has ten apples. She gives three to her friend. How many are left? »
- YouListen
Qu'est-ce qu'on doit faire ici : additionner ou soustraire ?
What should we do here: add or subtract?
- Your childListen
Elle donne des pommes, alors on soustrait !
She gives apples away, so we subtract!
- YouListen
Exactement ! Dix moins trois, ça fait ?
Exactly! Ten minus three is?
- Your childListen
Sept ! J'ai trouvé !
Seven! I got it!
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Helping your child with homeworkDialogue 234
- YouListen
Bravo ! Tu es capable, tu vois. Tu as fini tes autres devoirs ?
Well done! You can do it, you see. Are you done with your other homework?
- Your childListen
Presque. Il me reste la lecture de dix minutes.
Almost. I just have ten minutes of reading left.
- YouListen
D'accord. Je te laisse, et après on soupe.
All right. I'll leave you to it, and then we have supper.
Vocabulary
- les devoirshomework
- un énoncéa problem (statement)
- additionner / soustraireto add / subtract
- souperto have supper / supper
- Bravo !Well done!
- tu es capableyou can do it
Culture note
In Quebec, parents are encouraged to help their children at home, but autonomy is valued: you guide, you don't do the work for the child.
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