Lost on a Hiking Trail: A French Story for Outdoor Adventure
Follow Lucas as he gets lost on a hiking trail in the French countryside and tries to find his way back. Learners build everyday outdoor and travel vocabulary—paths, directions, landscape, clothing, objects—through short present-tense sentences and key phrases for being lost and asking for help.
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Tap any word for its meaning85 sentences · 116 new words
- 01village · villagevillage.Lucas is in a small village.
- 02sac à dos · backpacksac à dos .He puts his backpack on his back.
- 03carte · mapcarte .He takes the map in his hand.
- 04regarde · looks atregarde .He looks at the map.
- 05sourit · smilessourit.He smiles.
- 06colline · hillcolline.He points his finger towards the hill.
- 07chemin · pathchemin.He walks on the path.
- 08ciel · skyciel .The sky is blue.
- 09oiseaux · birdsoiseaux .The birds sing.
- 10parfait · perfectparfait.Lucas smiles — everything is perfect.
- 11pierre · stones' pierre.He stops near a big stone.
- 12bouteille · bottlebouteille.He opens his bottle.
- 13boit · drinksboit .He drinks water.
- 14pose · puts downpose .He puts the map on the stone.
- 15repart · sets off againrepart .He sets off again on the path.
- 16divise · dividesdivise .The path divides in two.
- 17poche · pocketpoche .Lucas puts his hand in his pocket to take the map.
- 18vide · emptyvide.The pocket is empty.
- 19terre · groundterre .He looks on the ground — no map.
- 20autour · aroundautour .He looks around him — no map.
- 21chercher · to look forchercher .He goes back to look for the map.
- 22ressemble · looks alikeressemble .But the path looks the same on all sides.
- 23sait · knowssait .He no longer knows where he came from.
- 24gauche · leftgauche.He takes the path to the left.
- 25arbres · treesarbres .The trees are more and more numerous.
- 26sortie · exitsortie.There is no exit.
- 27croisement · crossroadscroisement.He comes back to the crossroads.
- 28droite · rightdroite.He takes the path to the right.
- 29voit · seesvoit .He sees only trees and a hill.
- 30milieu · middles' milieu .Lucas stops in the middle of the crossroads.
- 31panneau · signpanneau.There is no sign.
- 32personne · nobodypersonne.There is nobody.
- 33réseau · networkréseau.His phone has no network.
- 34assoit · sits downassoit .Lucas sits down on a stone.
- 35ouvre · opensouvre .He opens his backpack.
- 36livre · booklivre.He takes out a small book.
- 37manteau · coatmanteau.He takes out a coat.
- 38biscuits · cookiesbiscuits.He takes out a box of cookies.
- 39deuxième · seconddeuxième .There is no second map in the bag.
- 40bruit · noise, bruit — , .Suddenly, he hears a small noise — diling, diling.
- 41cloches · bellscloches .It's the sound of the sheep's bells.
- 42troupeau · flocktroupeau .A flock of sheep comes out from behind the bushes.
- 43femme · womanfemme .An old woman walks behind the sheep.
- 44bâton · stickbâton .She holds a wooden stick.
- 45lève · stands uplève.Lucas stands up.
- 46agite · wavesagite .He waves his hand.
- 47crie · shoutscrie :He shouts: "Madam! Madam!"
- 48arrête · stopsarrête.The old woman stops.
- 49regarde · looks atregarde .She looks at Lucas.
- 50pointe · pointspointe .Lucas points his finger towards his backpack.
- 51perdu · lostperdu.He signals that he is lost.
- 52sourit · smilessourit.The old woman smiles.
- 53hoche · nodshoche .She nods her head.
- 54tablier · aprontablier.She puts her hand in the pocket of her apron.
- 55papier · paperpapier .She takes out an old crumpled piece of paper.
- 56carte · mapcarte !It's Lucas's map!
- 57trouvé · foundtrouvé .She found the map near the big stone this morning.
- 58yeux · eyesyeux.Lucas opens his eyes wide.
- 59bouche · mouthbouche.He opens his mouth.
- 60reconnaît · recognizesreconnaît .He recognizes his map right away.
- 61donne · givesdonne .The old woman gives the map to Lucas.
- 62pointe · pointspointe .She points her finger towards the path on the left.
- 63dit · saysdit :She says: "That way — the village!"
- 64regarde · looks atregarde .Lucas looks at the map.
- 65regarde · looks atregarde .He looks at the path on the left.
- 66mène · leadsmène .It's correct — the path on the left leads to the village.
- 67serre · shakesserre .Lucas shakes the old woman's hand.
- 68Merci · Thank you: MerciHe says: "Thank you! Thank you very much!"
- 69hoche · nodshoche .The old woman nods her head.
- 70sourit · smilessourit.She smiles.
- 71repart · sets off againrepart .She sets off again with her sheep.
- 72tient · holdstient .Lucas holds the map with both hands.
- 73marche · walksmarche .He walks on the path to the left.
- 74ouvre · opens ups'ouvre .The path opens up before him.
- 75toits · roofstoits .He sees the roofs of the village in the distance.
- 76vite · fastvite.He walks faster.
- 77monte · goes upmonte .His backpack goes up and down with each step.
- 78porte · gateporte .Lucas arrives at the village gate.
- 79arrête · stopss'arrête.He stops.
- 80retourne · turns aroundretourne.He turns around.
- 81derrière · behindderrière .He looks at the path behind him.
- 82plie · foldsplie .He folds the map.
- 83attache · attaches, attache .This time, he carefully attaches the map to the strap of his backpack.
- 84sourit · smilessourit.He smiles.
- 85entre · entersentre .He enters the village.
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