Coffee Break French Reading Club - Season 2

Another 52 weekly reading texts with audio, vocabulary and exercises to help you build your French vocabulary

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The Coffee Break French Reading Club - Season 2

Please note that the Coffee Break French Reading Club Season 2 is aimed at students who have already completed Season 1. If you have not already completed Season 1, click here to find out more.

One of the most effective ways to build your vocabulary in a language is to use short, interesting articles on a regular basis. The Coffee Break French Reading Club will provide you with a weekly text in French, helping you to develop a wide range of vocabulary and experience French in a range of different contexts. Crucially, you'll also build your knowledge of the cultures of French-speaking areas.

In addition to the text itself, you'll also get access to an audio version read by a native speaker. We've included "normal speed" and slower versions of the text to help you with your understanding, and there are vocabulary lists and exercises for each of the texts too.


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The Coffee Break French Team
The Coffee Break French Team

The Coffee Break French team includes language teachers, native speakers and host learners, making your experience learning a language fun and enjoyable. You can be sure every course has been carefully written by experienced teachers to ensure you progress steadily through the lessons.


Class Outline


  Week 1 - La galette des rois
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  Week 2 - Les Aventures Alpines
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  Week 3 - Bruxelles : une ville francophone, mais multiculturelle
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  Week 4 - La poutine : des calories pour le froid
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  Week 5 - Jean-Paul Sartre et l’existentialisme
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  Week 6 - Une spécialité bretonne
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  Week 7 - Mardi gras
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  Week 8 - La culture complexe de la Suisse
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  Week 9 - Madame Bovary
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  Week 10 - Qu’est-ce que la Francophonie ?
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  Week 11 - La baguette : toute une histoire
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  Week 12 - Jeanne d’Arc : « La Pucelle d’Orléans »
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  Week 13 - René Descartes : Je pense donc je suis
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  Week 14 - Une histoire de misérables
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  Week 15 - La Corse : territoire français fier de sa culture et sa langue
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  Week 16 - Yves Saint Laurent : un patrimoine de la mode française
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  Week 17 - Croque-monsieur : bon à croquer !
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  Week 18 - Les petits rongeurs des Alpes françaises
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  Week 19 - Moment cinéma : Intouchables
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  Week 20 - Compter dans les français différents
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  Week 21 - Clichés français, entre réalité et imagination collective
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  Week 22 - Sophie Marceau : haut dans le classement des personnalités françaises
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  Week 23 - Boire et manger, pourquoi pas les deux en même temps ?
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  Week 24 - L’arc de Triomphe
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  Week 25 - La fête de la musique
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  Week 26 - Les frères Lumière : l’invention du cinématographe
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  Week 27 - Strasbourg : pont culturel
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  Week 28 - Un tout petit fruit aux vertus infinies
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  Week 29 - Une fleur qui embaume
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  Week 30 - Moutarde de Dijon
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  Week 31 - Une pâtisserie à manger comme un éclair
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  Week 32 - Gare aux gaffes de LaGaffe !
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  Week 33 - Les châteaux de la Loire
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  Week 34 - « Elle était la sœur d’une aquarelle de Degas »
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  Week 35 - Madagascar: sanctuaire de la nature
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  Week 36 - Un nez pas comme les autres
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  Week 37 - Le savoir-faire monastique
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  Week 38 - Ne me quitte pas
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  Week 39 - Carcassonne
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  Week 40 - Pourquoi le mot « France » ?
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  Week 41 - Un gratin qui fait du bien
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  Week 42 - Godard et la nouvelle vague
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  Week 43 - Le Lap Lap : spécialité du Vanuatu
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  Week 44 - La Normandie
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  Week 45 - Molière
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  Week 46 - Le dîner de quoi ?
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  Week 47 - Une chanteuse bilingue
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  Week 48 - Joseph Fourier et l’effet de serre
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  Week 49 - De Gaulle : « Je vous ai compris ! »
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  Week 50 - Le Grand-Duché
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  Week 51 - Juliette Binoche : une carrière internationale
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  Week 52 - La langue française ? Les langues françaises !
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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts whenever you are ready. You can sign up at any time and you'll receive the weekly texts starting with text 1 today. The texts will continue for 52 weeks and each text will become available to you on a weekly basis from the day you sign up.
How long do I have access to the course?
Even after you've completed the 52-week course you'll still have access to the texts and the additional audio materials. You'll be able to review the materials and refresh your vocabulary long after the 52-week programme has ended.
What's the difference between this course and Season 1 of the Reading Club?
Many learners have worked through the full 52 weeks of the Coffee Break French Reading Club Season 1 and have asked us for more texts at this level. We've produced a full year's worth of texts and are delighted to make this available on the Coffee Break Academy. The texts are at a similar level to those in Season 1, with perhaps a slight increase in difficulty. The texts are aimed at learners working at A2/B1 level.
Is there a free version of the Season 2 Reading Club?
Season 1 of the Reading Club offered a free version which provided the texts with no access to the audio, vocabulary or activities. Unfortunately it's not possible to offer a free version of Reading Club 2.

Make your down time your 'do' time!

Here at Coffee Break Languages we want to help you maximise your down time and 'dead time', so with a short reading club text available each week, you can spend just 10 minutes building your confidence in French.

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