Welcome to Coffee Break French. In lesson 66, we're going to be looking at two expressions

which will help you increase your range of vocabulary in French. These expressions

are avant de faire quelque chose, and venir de faire quelque chose. In lesson, I'll explain

exactly what these two phrases mean and hopefully by the end of the lesson, you'll be able

to use them in your own speaking and writing in French.

Voilà, bonnes�s en de français.

To begin with, and I know you probably want to forget key and cut, but let's just have a quick

reminder of key and cut from last time. Anna, here's the sentence, is it key or c?

The grammar which we studied last week was difficult. Is that which they are key or c?

That would be c? It's c, because it's followed by a pronoun, okay, which we studied last week

was difficult. The grammar which we studied last week was difficult. Okay, what about this one?

Lesson 65, which has been downloaded tens of thousands of times, has helped people understand

key and c? Okay, so in this case it would be key. That's right, because it's the lesson which

has been it's followed by immediately a verb, the lesson which has been downloaded lots of times

and so on. So I think we've got key and cut sorted. Let's move on. We're going to look at two

expressions today, both of which use the infinitive of a verb. So you don't even need to worry about

conjugating verbs in today's lesson. The first of these expressions is avant de faire quelque chose.

So avant means before. So avant de faire quelque chose means before doing something. So it's a

useful way of extending what you can see about things. We know we can deal with the perfect

tens, we can deal with the imperfect tens, and it's useful to just have that extra element in

our vocabulary, which we can use. So before doing something avant de faire quelque chose,

for example avant de partir, je veux finir mes devoir. Can you translate that?

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