CBF 3:07 | Focus on past tenses and idiomatic expressions
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 4 December 2010
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
This episode is the first of two episodes which are based on Katie’s second text. In this first part we’ll be hearing about an unfortunate event which Katie experienced while she was shopping in Nice. Language points covered include the expression se rendre compte in the perfect tense, whether descendre is an être or avoir verb, and many other points. Please note that lesson 07 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 307 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Coffee Break French, Season 3, Episode 7 |
| 0:12.2 | Bonjour tout le monde et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome back once again to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:17.4 | After our in-depth study of the future tense last time, we're going to be returning to |
| 0:22.0 | our weekly texts from Katie, Veronica and Alf and this week we're with Katie. |
| 0:28.0 | She's going to be telling us about an unfortunate occurrence which took place during the week |
| 0:32.5 | and she'll also be telling us about her future plans for the weekend. |
| 0:36.5 | Aller, est-ce que vous êtes prêt? |
| 0:38.5 | Allez, c'est parti! |
| 0:50.5 | Now I'll let you hear the whole of Katie's second text. |
| 0:54.0 | However, in this lesson, we're going to be concentrating on the first couple of paragraphs. |
| 0:58.4 | There's quite a lot to cover in this section, so we'll split this text over Lesson 7 and |
| 1:03.9 | Lesson 8 of Season 3. |
| 1:06.5 | As usual, we'll pick up a number of points after you hear the text and if you want the full |
| 1:12.1 | line-by-line analysis, then you can access our members content. |
| 1:16.3 | You can find it more by going to coffeebreakfrench.com. |
| 1:20.0 | Let's have a listen to Katie's second text then. |
| 1:23.3 | We'll listen to the whole text, but we're just going to concentrate on the first two paragraphs |
| 1:27.6 | in the analysis. |
| 1:53.4 | I love to do magasins, it's more like the Lachvittrine because I haven't found anything yet. |
| 2:04.6 | I had eaten the books at the window and I was on the point of coming out of the magasins |
| 2:11.1 | when I got out of the account that there was a boy behind me in my bag. |
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