# Édito A2, Unit 2: Looking at old photos

**Language:** French  
**CEFR Level:** A2  

> Listen in as Enzo and his grandmother Jacqueline look through old family photos in real, everyday French, pairing with the themes of unit 2 of Édito A2. By the end of this course their conversation will feel easy to follow, and you'll be ready to join in.

**Setting:** The kitchen of a stone house in a village in the Ardèche on an August afternoon, the shutters half closed against the heat. Enzo is spending the summer at his grandmother Jacqueline's and has found a box of old photos. They use tu with each other, as grandchildren and grandparents do.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking about an old photo

Enzo finds a photo of a little girl, and Jacqueline tells him it's her, in Nîmes.

### 2. Describing a place from the past

Jacqueline describes to Enzo the house she grew up in, with its garden and its fig tree.

### 3. Talking about past habits

Jacqueline tells Enzo where her family went every summer, and how they got there.

### 4. Saying what you liked and didn't

Jacqueline loved swimming and hated sand in her sandwiches, just like Enzo.

### 5. Talking about the weather back then

Enzo asks about the weather, and Jacqueline remembers the heat of those summers, the afternoon naps and the dinners outside.

### 6. Asking about someone in the photos

Enzo asks for photos of his great-grandfather, and Jacqueline finds one with his big moustache.

### 7. Saying what you remember most

Jacqueline says what she remembers most, and gives Enzo a fig from her own tree.