Prepare your note
This exercise trains a route decision. You must decide whether to stay on the bus or choose another stop. It does not ask you to memorise a city map. A familiar stop name can attract your attention even when the announcement says the bus will not serve it. Put the action beside the place name in your notes. That small change prevents a correct word from producing the wrong travel decision. All places and route details here form an invented example.
Draw a line with three stops: Mairie, Marché, and Gare. Your destination is Marché. Add an arrow to show the direction of travel. Now read the French notice as a change to this simple map. You do not need to know a real town. If you can already read the notice easily, cover it after one reading and redraw the route from memory. This checks the message structure rather than your ability to copy French words from a page.
Your scene task
En raison de travaux, l’arrêt Marché ne sera pas desservi aujourd’hui.
Merci de descendre à l’arrêt Mairie. La ligne reprend ensuite son itinéraire habituel.
Show English translations
Because of roadworks, the Marché stop will not be served today.
Please get off at the Mairie stop. The route then resumes its usual course.
Make your decision
Cross out the stop that is unavailable. Circle the suggested alternative. Write one reason for the change and one limit on its duration. Finally, decide whether the notice says that the whole bus line is cancelled. Make your answer in plain English if that lets you show understanding more clearly. You are testing a listening decision, not French spelling. Keep your first answer so you can compare it with the key instead of silently replacing it after you read the translation.
Open the answer key
Cross out Marché and circle Mairie. The reason is roadworks, expressed by travaux. The notice applies today, aujourd’hui. It does not cancel the entire line. Reprend ensuite son itinéraire habituel says that the line returns to its usual route after the change. A complete answer therefore has five parts: unavailable stop, alternative stop, cause, time limit, and the fact that service continues. The message gives no walking distance from Mairie to Marché, so do not invent one.
The distinction that matters
Ne sera pas desservi is negative even though the place name sounds important. Desservir means to serve a place in this transport context. It does not mean to leave a passenger there. The word ensuite places the return to the usual route after the diversion. It does not tell you how long the roadworks will last. Keep the operational notice narrow. A statement about today cannot establish tomorrow’s route, and a suggested stop is not a promise of step-free access.
Try the task on your own video
For a chosen transport clip, prepare a two-column note headed available and unavailable. Listen for a stop name together with a service word. Check only the phrase that decides your route. We make Jibber Jabber. Word lookup in its captions can support this vocabulary check when you find a suitable French video. Save a useful expression such as en raison de rather than an arbitrary street name. Confirm real diversions with the operator; the app and this workbook are practice resources, not live passenger information.
Questions and answers
Does travaux mean homework here?
No. The route context makes roadworks the natural meaning.
Is Marché the last stop?
The notice does not say. It says only that this stop is not served today.
What counts as success?
Choose Mairie and explain why Marché is unavailable without cancelling the whole line.
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Jibber Jabber. “Find the stop that a French bus will skip.” French Listening Atelier. Updated 9 November 2026. https://frenchcomprehensibleinput.com/bus-stop-exception/.