CBF 3:26 | Focus on the subjunctive and idiomatic expressions
Coffee Break French
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4.6 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2011
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
We return to Alf’s story this week on Coffee Break French and his wife, Jennifer, has finally arrived in France. Alf has been preparing for her arrival, both with the house renovations and he’s even learned to cook! As usual there are plenty of useful expressions and interesting grammar points in this week’s lesson. In addition, following many requests from our members, the extended version of this week’s lesson features an introduction to a new tense, the Past Historic, which is a narrative tense used in literary texts. Please note that lesson 26 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 326 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 26. |
| 0:11.0 | Bonjour tout le monde et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome once again to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:16.5 | Cette semaine nous sommes avec Alph. |
| 0:20.0 | Et Alph a de bonne nouvelle. |
| 0:22.5 | Alph has good news this week. |
| 0:24.5 | Avoir de bonne nouvelle, to have good news. |
| 0:28.5 | Il va s'adapter à vous sur ce qu'il est passé dans la maison où il est en train d'offrir. |
| 0:33.0 | Et il va être une opportunité de voir beaucoup d'expressions et de constructions grammes. |
| 0:39.0 | Alors, est-ce que vous êtes prêt ? |
| 0:41.0 | Allez, c'est parti ! |
| 0:51.0 | Ok, as usual, on va commencer par listening to the whole text. |
| 0:55.5 | After this, we'll go through the text and help you understand what is being said. |
| 1:00.5 | If you'd like a line-by-line analysis of the text, you can use our extended version. |
| 1:05.5 | Find out more about how to get that extended version at coffeebreakfrench.com. |
| 1:11.0 | Ok, Alph, over to you. |
| 1:13.5 | Finalement, Jennifer est arrivée. |
| 1:16.5 | Je suis allée la chercher à la airport, hier. |
| 1:20.0 | Il est très content d'être ici. |
| 1:23.5 | Elle a dit qu'il ne faisait pas beau actuellement en Angleterre. |
| 1:27.0 | Donc, elle est ravie de voir qu'il fait déjà chaud ici sur la côte d'Azure. |
| 1:32.0 | Elle est aussi très contente de tout ce que j'ai fait dans la maison pour son arrivée. |
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