Topic Two (1.2): Enquête: La vie quotidienne
Reading
Read pages 8 and 9 of your coursebook and complete Exercises 1-10. If you need assistance translating the text or understanding how to complete the tasks, please read the instructions below.
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Pages 8 and 9
Exercise 1. First, listen to CD 01 Track 3 and see how much you can understand.
LISTEN - CD 01 Track 3 Download LISTEN - CD 01 Track 3
Then listen again whilst reading the first part of the passage on page 8 (the section headed ‘Matthieu’. See how much you can understand without looking anything up. Finally, read the passage again and underline any words or phrases you don’t understand and look them up.
Exercise 2. If you are studying alone, you can do this exercise as a listening comprehension. You will have noticed when you were listening to the CD whilst you read the text that there are a lot of question marks in Matthieu’s account of his day. Listen to the CD again and fill in the times that he does everything. They have given you the first time as 7h15. Notice how French people write 7.15 as 7h15 – the ‘h’ stands for ‘heures’ so they say ‘sept heures quinze’ when speaking.
Exercise 3. Write about Matthieu’s day and look at the il/elle/on form in the ‘verbes pronominaux’ (reflexive verbs) box for the correct form to use.
Exercise 4. Now read the section about Rosine and see if you can work out what the question is asking for.
Exercise 5. You can do this exercise if you are studying alone – just write down your conversation and practise reading it out loud.
Exercise 6a. Read the article about Tien. Then use the words from the green Vocabulaire box below to suggest what words and phrases should be inserted into the passage where you see the numbers.
Exercise 6b. Now listen to the Tien passage and check if the words and phrases that you suggested are correct.
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Exercise 7. If you are studying alone, just answer the two questions given in the examples of the ‘Who am I?’ game.
Exercise 8. What is the main difference between the way Matthieu, Rosine and Tien dress for school?
Exercise 9. If you have a partner, use the questions from exercise 5 to make and record a conversation. If you are working alone, you can miss this out if you want.
Exercise 10. ‘Racontez’ means ‘tell’ (or here ‘talk about’) and a ‘témoignage’ is literally a ‘testimony’ and here it refers to what the three children say on page 8.