CBF 3:20 | Review of lessons 1-19
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 25 April 2011
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re testing you on what you’ve learned in the first twenty episodes of season 3. We’re providing you with a series of sentences in English to translate into French, and you’ll be encouraged to think of the grammatical constructions and vocabulary which have been covered in the texts of Veronica, Alf and Katie. You’ll have 20 seconds to work out each translation and then Mark will talk through the translation and talk about the language contained in the example. Please note that lesson 20 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 320 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 20 |
| 0:09.6 | Bonjour à tous et à toute bienvenue à Coffee Break French |
| 0:13.8 | Welcome to Coffee Break French, Episode 20 of Season 3 |
| 0:17.8 | Now as we promised last time, this is going to be a bit of a test |
| 0:21.6 | testing you on how much you've learned over the past few weeks |
| 0:25.5 | In particular, we will be picking up on a number of grammar constructions and items of vocabulary |
| 0:31.6 | which Veronica, Kite and Alph have used in their texts in this first half of season 3, |
| 0:38.4 | so you'll be able to find out how much you've learned. |
| 0:41.9 | So, are you ready? Come on, let's go! |
| 0:52.4 | In this episode, we are going to be asking you to translate a number of phrases from English |
| 0:57.0 | into French, and these phrases will be based on words and phrases contained in the texts |
| 1:02.8 | over the past few weeks. Of course, if this happens to be the first ever episode of Coffee Break |
| 1:08.2 | French you've listened to, then you'll probably find it quite a challenge. |
| 1:12.8 | However, it will give you a good indication of quite how much French you can learn by using |
| 1:18.2 | our course. Okay, let's get straight on with today's lesson. I'm going to give you some |
| 1:23.7 | phrases to translate from English into French. Sometimes there may be more than one possible |
| 1:29.3 | translation, but you'll try to talk through each translation after you have some time to work it out. |
| 1:35.5 | So, number one, I've been going there for 10 years. I have been going there for 10 years, |
| 1:46.3 | and say that into French. |
| 1:51.5 | Okay, so I have been going there for 10 years. When you're doing something for a period of time, |
| 2:10.3 | that should trigger in your mind that you use Dupé and a present tense. So, I go since 10 years, |
| 2:19.8 | rather than I've been going for 10 years. So, I go since 10 years becomes |
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