CBF 3:24 | Idiomatic expressions and focus on tenses
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 18 June 2011
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s lesson we’ll continue with Alf’s text from last week. There are some fantastic examples of preceding direct objects in this week’s show, and you’ll have the opportunity to practise ne … rien and ne … que. Please note that lesson 24 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 324 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 24. |
| 0:11.0 | Salut tout le monde, et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome back to Coffee Break French, we are rejoining Alf this week. |
| 0:19.0 | We started off with his latest text last week, |
| 0:22.0 | and this week we'll continue looking at the grammar and the vocabulary that he has used. |
| 0:27.0 | He has been on a cooking course, and we'll be finding out what else he's been up to this week. |
| 0:50.5 | So as usual, we'll begin by having a listen to Alf's text and full, |
| 0:54.0 | and this includes this section that we covered last week. |
| 0:57.0 | After this, we'll go through one or two of the language points in the text, |
| 1:01.0 | and help you understand what Alf has been saying. |
| 1:04.0 | If you'd like a line-by-line analysis of this text, |
| 1:07.0 | then you can use a special extended version, which this week runs to over 30 minutes. |
| 1:12.0 | This forms part of our members' materials for Coffee Break French, |
| 1:16.0 | and you can find out more at coffeebreakfrench.com. |
| 1:19.0 | Okay, over to Alf. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm back, and this week I have a good news. |
| 1:28.0 | I know how to cook. |
| 1:30.0 | As you know, I've been writing in a cooking course, |
| 1:35.0 | and I'm going to sell it for the last time. |
| 1:39.0 | We were only six people, a Swiss couple, a Canadian journalist, |
| 1:44.0 | two Japanese young people, and me. |
| 1:48.0 | We started the day by the walk of the Salaya course, |
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