CBF 3:33 | Translation exercises and dictation exercise
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 23 December 2011
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
This episode is the first of eight lessons which focus on consolidating what you’ve learned in the past 32 lessons. We’ll be testing your grammar and vocabulary with a series of guided translation exercises: we’ll give you a phrase to translate into French and then work through the solution with you.Please note that lesson 33 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 333 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, Lesson 33 |
| 0:11.6 | Bonjour à tous et à toutes et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Coffee Break French, and in this lesson, we're going to be doing things |
| 0:18.3 | slightly differently. |
| 0:20.0 | As we explained last time, we've come to the end of our texts for Season 3. |
| 0:25.3 | However, for the next 8 lessons, we're going to be testing you on the grammar constructions |
| 0:31.1 | and vocabulary and expressions that you've been learning over the past 32 lessons using |
| 0:36.8 | the texts from Veronica, Alph and Katie. |
| 0:41.1 | If you're listening to the three basic versions of the podcast available on our website, |
| 0:45.8 | then you'll be able to test yourself with 5 translation questions. |
| 0:51.0 | You'll give you a phrase in English, and then you'll work through a translation of |
| 0:55.0 | that phrase in French, based on what you've been learning. |
| 0:59.3 | If you're listening to the extended members version, then you'll get an extra 5 questions |
| 1:04.4 | to translate from English into French, and you'll also be able to try your hand at our |
| 1:09.3 | Dicté, a dictation exercise, something that French school children aren't very fond |
| 1:16.9 | of, but a dicté is an excellent way to test your understanding of autograph, the spelling |
| 1:23.9 | changes that occur as a result of grammar points. |
| 1:28.3 | And we hope that you find these exercises useful. |
| 1:31.7 | Okay, let's get straight on to today's set of questions. |
| 1:46.9 | All of these sentences that we're going to ask you to translate are either taken directly |
| 1:51.7 | from the texts of Veronica, Alph and Katie, or they're based on something that these |
| 1:58.1 | characters have said in their diary entries. |
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