Today's story: GM and Ford are targeting defence and energy storage. You will hear it in French first, then line by line with the English beside it.

Today's headline in French: GM et Ford visent la défense et le stockage d’énergie

(00:00) Welcome and today's headline

(00:36) Three more stories today

(01:44) Today's headline, slowly

(02:36) Present tense of chercher

(03:17) Having a contract

(03:58) Storing electricity

(04:34) Today's grammar point

(05:08) The story again

The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:

https://linguawire.com/class/french/a1/2026-09-06

TODAY'S FRENCH TEXT

GM et Ford visent la défense et le stockage d’énergie

GM et Ford cherchent de nouveaux marchés.

Ils veulent aussi gagner de l’argent avec l’énergie.

GM a déjà un contrat avec l’armée américaine.

Ford veut investir deux milliards de dollars dans son activité d’énergie.

Ce type de système garde de l’électricité pour des maisons et des entreprises.

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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES

- verb (chercher)

- vocabulary (veulent)

- vocabulary (a)

- vocabulary (investir)

- vocabulary (garde)

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