CBF 3:14 | Focus on the perfect, imperfect and pluperfect tenses
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 15 February 2011
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
It's time to return to Veronica’s diary entries in today's lesson. We’ll be hearing about her recent visit to Italy, and she’ll also be telling us a bit more about her work. Please note that lesson 14 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 314 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 14 |
| 0:11.7 | Salut et bienvenue encore une fois à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:15.3 | It's lesson 14 of Season 3, and in today's episode we're going to be joining Veronica |
| 0:20.0 | once more. |
| 0:21.0 | She'll be telling us about her recent trip to Italy, and also a little about her work |
| 0:25.8 | because, as you know, the students in her class have all been talking about the |
| 0:30.0 | travail over the past few weeks. |
| 0:33.6 | Alors, on va commencer la leçon ? Est-ce que vous êtes prêts ? Allez, c'est parti ! |
| 0:42.5 | As you know, we'll begin by going through Veronica's text. |
| 0:55.5 | You'll hear the whole text, and then afterwards, we'll go through one or two of the language |
| 0:59.6 | points contained in the text to help you understand. |
| 1:03.4 | If you'd like a line-by-line analysis of the text, then we would suggest that you have |
| 1:07.3 | a look at the extended version of this lesson. |
| 1:10.5 | You can find it more about that at coffeebreakfrench.com. |
| 1:14.0 | OK, let's have a listen to the text. |
| 1:16.8 | Bonjour, mes amis. |
| 1:18.5 | Comment allez-vous ? |
| 1:19.5 | J'ai plein de choses à vous raconter. |
| 1:22.8 | Je vais commencer par ma visite en Italy. |
| 1:26.8 | Après avoir vu la maison, tant je vous ai parlé la semaine dernière, elle était belle, |
| 1:33.4 | mais je pense qu'elle était un peu trop petite pour mon client. |
| 1:37.4 | Je me suis dirigée vers la frontière italienne. |
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