CBF 3:18 | The perfect and imperfect tenses
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 9 April 2011
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
We knew you’d be desperate to find out how Katie got on at the Cannes Film Festival with Jérôme, so we’re sticking with Katie’s diary entries this week. In this episode you’ll hear a full account of her evening in Cannes with Jérôme and his parents, and you’ll also hear how things have developed between Katie and Jérôme… In terms of the language covered in this episode, we’ll be taking a look at further examples of direct and indirect object pronouns, more examples of the subjunctive, and lots more. Please note that lesson 18 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 318 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 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
| 0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:21.0 | Make your train journey via AvantiWestcoast.co.uk. |
| 0:25.0 | AvantiWestcoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:33.0 | Coffee Break French Season 3 Episode 18 |
| 0:43.0 | Salut tout le monde, nous revoici avec encore un épisode de Coffee Break French. |
| 0:48.5 | Cette semaine nous sommes encore une fois avec Katie, parce que je suis sûr que vous voulez |
| 0:54.6 | tout savoir exactement ce qui se passe au festival de Cannes et surtout avec Jérôme. |
| 1:02.5 | Katie will be telling us the whole story of her trip to the film festival and she will be describing |
| 1:07.8 | everything in great detail so lots of examples of the imperfect tense. |
| 1:12.5 | Alors, est-ce que vous êtes prêt ? Allez, c'est parti ! |
| 1:19.4 | As usual, we'll begin by having a listen to Katie's text in full and then we'll pick up one |
| 1:27.1 | or two language points afterwards and help you understand the text. However, if you'd like a line |
| 1:32.8 | by line analysis of the text, you can opt for our extended version which forms part of the |
| 1:38.2 | premier materials of Coffee Break French. Visit coffeebreakfrench.com for more information. |
| 1:43.3 | Let's have a listen to Katie's text now. |
| 2:14.2 | C'était une vieille d'émlaire des années 50, je pense. On est donc arrivé sur la croissette. |
| 2:21.8 | C'était la classe, exactement comme dans les films. Quand nous sommes arrivés, |
| 2:28.7 | il y avait même le tapis rouge et nous sommes sortis de la voiture. Les paparazzi nous attendaient. |
| 2:36.4 | Ils ont fait des photos de Matilde et de Michel. Et je pense qu'ils en ont pris |
| 2:41.8 | quelques-unes de gérôme et moi aussi. Peut-être que je serais dans Paris Match cette semaine. |
| 2:48.3 | D'y donc, c'est qui cette jeune fille au bras du fils de Matilde Gérard ? |
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