This beginning French short story makes French reading comprehension engaging and accessible for novice learners. The comprehensible input resource includes a printable story, two animated video versions, comprehension activities, a story-retell worksheet, and an answer key. Repeated target structures and visual support help students understand the French while saving you valuable preparation time.

Jerome is in love with Sophie—but there is a problem. He is so small that Sophie cannot see him and does not even know he exists! Can Jerome find a way to get Sophie’s attention and convince her to go on a date with him?

In L’homme invisible, students encounter four target structures multiple times in a humorous, easy-to-follow story:

• amoureux/amoureuse de — in love with

• ne le voit pas — doesn’t see him

• il achète — he buys

• plus petit que — smaller than

The repeated language makes this French short story approachable for beginning and novice French students. Use the story as written with novice-low or novice-mid learners, pause the video to discuss and storyask, or add details and create a parallel story with novice-high students.

Students can experience the story in several ways:

• Read the printable PDF version

• Watch the animated video with French text

• Watch the illustration-only video for oral retelling

• Answer reading-comprehension questions

• Complete the “Who Said It?” activity

• Retell the story using the included worksheet

For more advanced students, extend the lesson by asking them to add details, write a parallel story, or retell the events in the past tense.

Here’s what you’ll receive:

• Links to two animated video versions—with and without text

• Printable PDF version of L’homme invisible

• Comprehension-question worksheet

• “Who Said It?” worksheet

• Story-retell worksheet

• Answer key

This ready-to-use French reading comprehension lesson gives you an engaging story, repeated high-frequency language, visual support, and meaningful follow-up activities in one convenient resource.