CBF 3:40 | Translation exercises and dictation exercise
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 20 March 2012
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
This episode marks the end of an era! It’s the final lesson of Season 3 of Coffee Break French. We first met Alf, Katie and Veronica over 18 months ago and since then hopefully all our listeners have built their confidence and developed their range of expression in the French language. This final episode provides further opportunities for listeners to practise what they’ve learned through a series of translation challenges and, for premium members, a further dictation exercise.Please note that lesson 40 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 340 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 40 |
| 0:11.4 | Salut tout le monde et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to Coffee Break French and to this final episode in this season of our show. |
| 0:20.5 | This entire season has been based on texts, read by Alph, Veronica and Katie. |
| 0:26.6 | We fictitious students studying in a language school in Nice. |
| 0:32.0 | And over the past few lessons, we've been testing your knowledge of the constructions, |
| 0:35.9 | the grammar and the vocabulary covered in these lessons. |
| 0:39.8 | Hopefully these lessons have been useful to you in helping you consolidate the language |
| 0:44.4 | that you've learned in the course. |
| 0:46.8 | And you can find out at the end of this show how you can get further practice on this |
| 0:51.3 | language. |
| 0:52.4 | Okay, let's get straight on with today's show. |
| 1:08.0 | So, your first phrase for translation is, |
| 1:17.2 | I'll say that again. |
| 1:22.3 | So, the expression here, the key expression is at the time. |
| 1:45.0 | And in French, that becomes at the epoque, at le poque, at le poque. |
| 1:52.1 | I wasn't yet married, now you're describing a state of not yet being married. |
| 1:58.3 | So which tense will we be using here? |
| 2:02.0 | It's the imperfect tense we need to use. |
| 2:05.2 | So with the imperfect tense, I wasn't yet married. |
| 2:09.8 | So if I'm male, I spell marié, M-E-R-I-E-Q, and if I'm female, M-E-R-I-E-Q-T-I. |
| 2:31.9 | But if we want to introduce the idea of not yet being married, then we need to use the word |
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