You recommend a film. Your friend asks, “What is it about?” Can you keep the conversation going? Practise both parts of your reply: a short recommendation and a description that gives your friend something useful to go on.
Start with one film and one friend. You are A, the recommender; your friend is B. The four complete models come from Parle’s Recommend an experience mission. You can use the French, the English meanings or the audio. Keep your own two model panels closed until you have attempted the replies aloud.
This is a fictional film conversation. It does not identify a real film, offer streaming recommendations or ask you to buy a cinema ticket.
Practise your recommendation and the next reply
The diagram shows the turn order without giving your French answers. Try A’s two speaking turns. Open B’s panels when you need the friend’s question or response.
These unchanged models are Parle’s own complete synthetic recordings, originally generated through the online OpenAI speech service. This guide and its original diagram were prepared with AI assistance.
Your first turn as A: suggest that your friend see this film and say you think it is great. Try the complete suggestion before opening the model.
Reveal A’s film suggestion after your attempt
French suggestion · A, the recommender
Tu devrais voir ce film, il est génial.
English meaning: You should see this movie, it’s great.
Hear or read B’s follow-up question
French question · B, your friend
D'accord, de quoi ça parle ?
English meaning: Okay, what is it about?
Your second turn as A: give a brief description. In this practice scene, the film is a comedy and has well-known actors. Try putting those two details into one sentence before opening the model.
Reveal A’s short description after your attempt
French description · A, the recommender
C'est une comédie avec des acteurs connus.
English meaning: It’s a comedy with famous actors.
Hear or read B’s response to the recommendation
French response · B, your friend
Super, je vais le regarder ce soir.
English meaning: Great, I’ll watch it tonight.
Open the relevant model and select an interpretation to activate each check. You may read the meanings; these are supported meaning checks.
Open B’s follow-up question and choose what B asks.
Open A’s description and choose the details A supplies.
Open B’s final response and choose what B says they will do.
Native Pause keeps your place. Closing a model rewinds its audio; starting another stops the previous clip. Reset also clears your choices and feedback.
The webpage does not record or grade your speech.
Compare the question with the information supplied
Tu devrais voir ce film gives your friend a suggestion. The Académie française’s entry for devoir describes its conditional use for advice or a suggestion. Here, il est génial adds the recommender’s positive opinion. It remains A’s opinion about the fictional film.
The friend then asks De quoi ça parle ?: What is it about? Treat that as a request for information. Repeating only “It’s great” would repeat your opinion while leaving the question open.
The supplied reply makes a start with a type of film and a cast detail. Une comédie is a comedy; Larousse describes this cinematic genre by its aim of amusing. Des acteurs connus means well-known actors. The line supplies neither their names nor the film’s story. A friend may still want to know what happens in it.
That gives you a useful next practice step: say the available description clearly, then add a story detail only when you actually know it. You do not need to invent an actor, title or plot to complete this four-line model.
Keep the friend’s plan separate from a shared arrangement
In je vais le regarder ce soir, le refers back to the film. B expresses an intention to watch it tonight. The reply does not say B has already seen it, that A will join B or that either person has bought a ticket.
Try the four turns again while keeping the speakers stable: A recommends and describes; B asks and responds. If you swap roles with a partner, swap the whole role rather than mixing the two speakers’ plans.
For a separate task about agreeing on an outing, use the invitation practice. For discussing an opinion and a reason, continue with the opinions video lesson. This short film task concentrates on the follow-up after a recommendation.
Retry without reading your two answers
Choose Stop audio and hide all models. Say A’s suggestion, open only B’s question, then supply A’s short description before revealing it. Let B’s last line finish the exchange. The visible English prompt helps you retrieve the two details; this is supported speaking practice.
With a partner, ask them to read B’s question and response. Alone, keep a short pause between turns. After one attempt, check whether you gave a suggestion first and then provided new information when asked. You can compare the whole original model and try again.
Your menu selections concern the supplied meanings. They do not establish independent listening ability, pronunciation accuracy or completion of an App lesson.
Try a separate written variation
Use a different fictional film: this time it is a documentary about nature. The following is a written variation; the four recordings above remain the original comedy conversation.
| Your job | Written French frame | English meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Suggest the documentary | Tu devrais voir ce documentaire. | You should see this documentary. |
| Ask the follow-up | De quoi ça parle ? | What is it about? |
| Give its subject | Ça parle de la nature. | It is about nature. |
Practise the recommendation and the answer as A. Your partner asks the question as B. This variation supplies a subject, so keep it separate from the original comedy description. It does not identify a real documentary or a streaming service.
Continue with the current leisure task
Open the Recommend an experience role-play to try the current mission’s broader movie-or-activity prompt. This website exercise and its four audio models are free.
With the App set to English, use Course → A2.2 → Leisure and culture → Recommend an experience. Leisure and culture is a Premium App unit. All 35 Sounds and the first four First Contact missions remain free; Premium opens the current 120-mission course.
For your next attempt, keep the two jobs together: recommend something, then answer the question your friend actually asks.