French Reading Comprehension • A2–B1 • Everyday Documents
🇫🇷 French Reading Comprehension: Understanding an Electrician’s Business Card
This practical French reading comprehension worksheet asks learners to analyze an electrician’s business card and extract useful real-life information.
Students identify the company’s profession, services, location, contact details, manager, availability and website, then extend the activity through role-play, email writing and a creative business-card task.
Two printable layouts are available: a classic version and a more ink-saving version with a lighter business card and black-and-white decorative elements.
⚡ Practise reading a real-life French business card
The worksheet is built around a fictional electrician’s business card for Dépann-Élec. Learners must locate and understand practical information such as the company name, type of work, email address, location, telephone number, manager’s name, days of intervention and website.
The comprehension questions mix multiple-choice tasks, information retrieval and short written answers. Learners also decide in which situations the company could be called, connecting the services shown on the card with real household problems such as a blocked garage door, a broken radiator or boiler installation.
📋 Worksheet information
| Subject | French reading comprehension and functional literacy. |
|---|---|
| Recommended level | A2–B1 French learners. |
| Document type | An electrician’s business card containing services, contact details and company information. |
| Main skills | Scanning for information, understanding practical vocabulary, reading contact details and interpreting services. |
| Extension activities | Role-play phone call, email-writing task and creation of a personal business card. |
| Print versions | Classic version and ink-saving version. |
| Available formats | PDF and editable DOCX for both versions. |
🔍 What do students analyse? ▼
- Identify the profession and companyStudents determine the profession shown on the card and write the company name.
- Read contact detailsLearners identify the correct email address and copy the telephone number and website.
- Understand servicesStudents decide which household problems match the electrician’s listed services.
- Find location and company informationLearners identify the company’s location, the manager’s name and what can or cannot be inferred about where the manager lives.
- Interpret availability and visual informationStudents find the intervention days and locate the company logo.
🎯 Learning objectives▼
Learners practise extracting precise information from a practical French document, understanding common work and home-repair vocabulary, reading contact information and choosing relevant information according to a real-life need.
🗣️ Follow-up activities▼
The worksheet includes three extension ideas: a role-play in which the learner calls the repair company and arranges an appointment, an email-writing task describing a problem and giving contact details and availability, and a creative task in which students choose a profession and design their own business card.
👥 Recommended audience▼
Suitable for A2–B1 French learners, teenagers, adults, French as a Foreign Language classes, vocational French courses and learners preparing to handle practical everyday situations in French.
💡 Teaching tips▼
Ask learners to scan the business card for one type of information at a time: profession, services, address, contact details and availability. After correction, reuse the card for a short phone-call simulation. The ink-saving version is useful for large class sets or frequent photocopying.
Version 1 — Classic design
This version uses the dark business-card design and colored decorative elements. It is ideal for screen use, color printing or a visually richer classroom handout.
📄 Download the classic PDF
Ready-to-print version with the standard dark business-card design.
🔒 Editable classic DOCX
Premium members can download and edit the classic worksheet in Word format.
Version 2 — Ink-saving design
This version keeps the same comprehension activity but uses a lighter business card and black-and-white decorative elements. It is better suited to photocopying, large class sets and situations where lower ink consumption is preferred.
📄 Download the ink-saving PDF
Ready-to-print lighter version designed to reduce ink use.
🔒 Editable ink-saving DOCX
Premium members can download and customize the lighter worksheet in Word format.
❓ Frequently asked questions
What level is this French worksheet?▼
The worksheet is recommended for A2–B1 French learners. It combines practical information retrieval with useful everyday and work-related vocabulary.
What information do students have to find?▼
Students identify the profession, company name, services, email address, location, telephone number, manager, intervention days, logo and website.
What is the difference between the two versions?▼
The classic version uses the darker, more visual business-card design. The ink-saving version uses a lighter card and black-and-white decorative elements to reduce ink use when printing or photocopying.
Are there extension activities?▼
Yes. The resource suggests a phone-call role-play, an email-writing task and a creative activity in which learners design their own business card.
Can Premium members edit the worksheets?▼
Yes. Premium members can download editable DOCX files for both the classic and ink-saving versions.
