CBF 3:17 | Focus on the subjunctive and idiomatic expressions
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 28 March 2011
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
We’re returning to Katie’s texts this week and we’ll be hearing her exciting news about her forthcoming visit to the Cannes Film Festival, thanks to Jérôme’s mother. In this episode we’ll be covering more examples of vouloir que with the subjunctive, and we’ll also hear an example of préférer que which follows a similar pattern. There’s even a conditional perfect thrown in too! Please note that lesson 17 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 317 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 17 |
| 0:10.4 | Sally Troulonde et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:13.3 | Welcome back once again to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:16.0 | This week we're returning to the texts written by our three friends studying French in |
| 0:21.2 | the town of Nice. |
| 0:23.2 | And in lesson 17, we're going to be with Katie, who has some rather interesting news. |
| 0:30.3 | There's more practice of the subjunctive, in particular we'll be taking another look |
| 0:34.2 | at Ali and also looking at Savoir in the present subjunctive. |
| 0:39.4 | Let's get on with the lesson. |
| 0:41.0 | Esquo Zedpé? |
| 0:42.4 | Ali, c'est parti. |
| 0:50.7 | As usual, we'll begin by going through the text and fill, we'll listen to Katie's text, |
| 0:55.2 | and then we'll pick up one or two elements of the language contained in the text. |
| 1:00.0 | Now if you want the full line by line analysis of our text, then you can use our extended |
| 1:05.4 | version, which forms part of our members' materials. |
| 1:08.5 | Head over to coffeebreakfrench.com and find out how you can access these extra materials |
| 1:13.8 | for Season 3. |
| 1:15.8 | Let's have a listen to Katie's text. |
| 1:18.8 | Bonjour tout le monde, me revoit-sis avec mon petit journal de mon séjour à Nice. |
| 1:24.7 | Comment allez-vous ? |
| 1:26.7 | Moi je vais très bien. |
| 1:28.7 | J'ai eu une semaine très chargée. |
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