CBF 3:27 | Focus on the subjunctive and useful idiomatic phrases
Coffee Break French
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4.6 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2011
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode we're looking at the first part of Katie’s latest text in which she updates us on what’s she’s been getting up to in Nice. In this episode we’ll be looking at a variety of grammatical topics including the relative pronouns ce que and ce qui, and we’ll also consider some examples of the future perfect tense. The second part of Katie’s text will be analysed in the next lesson. Please note that lesson 27 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 327 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 | As Nigel opened his Amazon parcel, it was in love at first sight, sleek design and effortless cornering. |
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| 0:23.0 | Coffee Break French Season 3 Episode 27 |
| 0:31.0 | Salut tout le monde et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome once again to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:39.0 | Cette semaine, nous allons écouter un texte de Katie et nous allons savoir comment ça se passe pour elle en France. |
| 0:48.0 | This is the first of two lessons focusing on her latest text. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm going to be finding out what she's been getting up to in class this week. |
| 0:57.0 | As usual, there's lots of interesting language to discuss. |
| 1:00.0 | So, let's get on with this show. |
| 1:13.0 | As usual, we'll be getting by listening to the text in full. |
| 1:17.0 | Now Katie's latest text is actually split over this week and next week's lessons. |
| 1:22.0 | So we'll be concentrating on the first half of it in this lesson. |
| 1:26.0 | And analyzing the language used. |
| 1:29.0 | However, to give you the full context of what Katie's talking about, |
| 1:33.0 | we'll let you hear the whole of the text. |
| 1:36.0 | Of course, as usual, if you'd like a full line-by-line analysis of the text, |
| 1:40.0 | then you can visit coffeebreakfrench.com to find out how you can access all the materials that accompany this lesson. |
| 1:47.0 | OK, over to you Katie. |
| 1:49.0 | Salut tout le monde. |
| 1:51.0 | Comment ça va? |
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