# Édito A1, Unit 7: Settling into a new building

**Language:** French  
**CEFR Level:** A1  

> Listen in as Élodie and Patrick talk about her new building in real, everyday French, pairing with the themes of unit 7 of Édito A1. By the end of this course their conversation will feel easy to follow, and you'll be ready to join in.

**Setting:** The door of the caretaker's lodge, on the ground floor of a block of flats in Rouen, on a Saturday morning. Élodie moved into a flat on the third floor on Tuesday and meets Patrick, the caretaker, for the first time. They use vous with each other throughout.

## Lessons

### 1. Introducing yourself as the new tenant

Élodie knocks at the caretaker's lodge and tells Patrick she has just moved in on the third floor.

### 2. Asking where things go

Élodie asks Patrick where the bins and the bikes go.

### 3. Understanding the house rules

Patrick tells Élodie two rules of the building.

### 4. Apologising for noise

Élodie apologises to Patrick for the noise last night, and he tells her the rule after ten.

### 5. Explaining a problem at home

Élodie tells Patrick she has no hot water, and that the landlady doesn't answer.

### 6. Finding someone to fix it

Patrick knows a good plumber and offers to call him for Élodie.

### 7. Getting the keys

Élodie asks for the keys to the cellar, and Patrick has them.