Storybooks Canada
Home
About
How to use this website Teachers
Back to stories list

A girl peeling potatoes.

Cuisiner Cooking Cuisiner

Written by Clare Verbeek, Thembani Dladla, Zanele Buthelezi

Illustrated by Kathy Arbuckle, Ingrid Schechter

Translated by Alexandra Danahy

Read by Monique Bournot-Trites

Language French

Level Level 1

Narrate full story

Reading speed

Autoplay story

A girl peeling potatoes.

Je pèle les pommes de terre.

I peel the potatoes.

Je pèle les pommes de terre.

A boy chopping a cabbage.

J’émince un chou.

I chop a cabbage.

J’émince un chou.

A boy grating carrots.

Je râpe les carottes.

I grate the carrots.

Je râpe les carottes.

A boy washing beans.

Je lave les fèves.

I wash the beans.

Je lave les fèves.

A boy cutting a butternut.

Je coupe la courge musquée.

I cut the butternut.

Je coupe la courge musquée.

A boy chopping spinach.

Je hache les épinards.

I chop the spinach.

Je hache les épinards.

A woman chopping onions and a boy watching.

Ma mère hache les oignons.

My mom chops the onions.

Ma mère hache les oignons.

A boy wiping his tears in front of a plate of chopped onions.

Les oignons me font pleurer quand ils sont hachés.

Onions make me cry when they are chopped.

Les oignons me font pleurer quand ils sont hachés.

Written by: Clare Verbeek, Thembani Dladla, Zanele Buthelezi
Illustrated by: Kathy Arbuckle, Ingrid Schechter
Translated by: Alexandra Danahy
Read by: Monique Bournot-Trites
Language: French
Level: Level 1
Source: Cooking from African Storybook
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
Read more level 1 stories:
Options
Back to stories list Download PDF