CBF 3:15 | Focus on past tenses
Coffee Break French
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4.6 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2011
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
This week's lesson focuses on Alf’s diary entry for this week in which he talks a little more about his former career as a teacher. He also shares with us a decision that he has taken which he will return to in future lessons. Please note that lesson 15 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 315 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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coffee Break French, Season 3, Episode 15. |
| 0:10.0 | Bonjour à tous et à toutes et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome back once again to Coffee Break French, |
| 0:17.0 | and this is Episode 15, in Season 3 of our series. |
| 0:21.0 | Cette semaine, nous parlons avec Alfe, |
| 0:24.0 | l'un des trois étudiants à Nice |
| 0:27.0 | et nous allons savoir un peu plus à propos de sa carrière. |
| 0:32.0 | Comme vous le savez, Alfe était autrefois professeur |
| 0:36.0 | et il va parler de sa carrière aujourd'hui. |
| 0:40.0 | Alors, est-ce que vous êtes prêts ? Allez, c'est parti ! |
| 0:51.0 | As usual, we will begin by having a listen to the whole text. |
| 0:55.0 | We are going to listen to Alfe's text. |
| 0:57.0 | Then afterwards, we will help you understand it by picking up |
| 1:00.0 | a few of the language points. |
| 1:02.0 | If you'd like a line-by-line analysis of the text, |
| 1:05.0 | then you can use the extended version of this podcast, |
| 1:08.0 | which is available through the members area at coffeebreakfrench.com. |
| 1:12.0 | Let's have a listen to Alfe's text. |
| 1:15.0 | Bonjour tout le monde. |
| 1:17.0 | J'espère que vous allez bien. |
| 1:19.0 | Cette semaine, il a plu pendant trois jours. |
| 1:22.0 | Donc mes petits déjeuners sur la terrasse |
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