Today's story: The United Kingdom sees rise again the sale of its bonds. You will hear it in French first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in French: Le Royaume-Uni voit remonter la vente de ses bons
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:34) Three more stories today
(01:48) Today's headline, slowly
(02:36) monter: present tense
(03:14) Sentence 2: gouvernement
(03:52) Sentence 4: à dix ans and sentence 5:
(04:49) The story again
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
https://linguawire.com/class/french/a1/2026-09-03
TODAY'S FRENCH TEXT
Le Royaume-Uni voit remonter la vente de ses bons
La vente des bons remonte au Royaume-Uni.
Le gouvernement vend de la dette.
Les coûts d’emprunt augmentent.
Les bons à dix ans montent à un peu moins de 5,3 %.
C’est le niveau le plus haut depuis 2008.
ALSO ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGE
Manchester City refait son équipe en été
Le premier ministre britannique Andy Burnham reçoit Emmanuel Macron au Royaume-Uni
Nicolas Maduro demande l’arrêt des charges aux États-Unis
WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- verb (monter)
- vocabulary (remonter)
- connector words (gouvernement)
- vocabulary (emprunt)
- vocabulary (depuis)
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