# Édito A2, Unit 9: At a repair café

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

> Join Anaïs and Michel at a repair café in Poitiers, one short conversation at a time, pairing with the themes of unit 9 of Édito A2. Each lesson trains your ear until you can follow every word and answer back.

**Setting:** A repair café in a community centre in Poitiers on a Saturday morning, where volunteers fix what people bring, for free. Anaïs brings a toaster that stopped working after she dropped it. Michel, an electrician, volunteers here every month. They use vous with each other throughout.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking for help politely

Anaïs asks Michel to look at her toaster, which has stopped heating.

### 2. Saying how something happened

Anaïs tells Michel she dropped the toaster while she was cleaning it.

### 3. Saying what you'd like

Anaïs would like to learn to repair things herself, and Michel tells her about the monthly workshop.

### 4. Finding the fault

Michel finds the damaged cable and tells Anaïs what she should do with her toaster from now on.

### 5. Offering to help

Anaïs offers to help, and Michel gives her the lamp to hold and asks for the screwdriver.

### 6. Imagining things differently

Anaïs and Michel imagine a world where everybody repaired their things.

### 7. Thanking someone

The toaster works again, and Anaïs thanks Michel and asks what she owes him.