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🇫🇷 French · Intermediate Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 16 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Someone Who Makes Me Laugh

On a Friday evening, Chloe knocks at Emma's door, straight from another bad date from an app. She has had enough, and she knows what she'd like. Say you're fed up, tell the story of a bad evening, and say what kind of person you'd like to meet, with the special form of the verb after someone who.

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THE STORY

It's Friday the eighth of October. Hugo is at a dinner with the kayak club, and Emma is at her desk, when someone knocks at her door. It's Chloe, in her best dress, straight from another bad date from an app. She has had enough. The next morning, at the school, Karim asks Emma a question. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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les applislay-zah-PLEEthe apps
j'en ai marrezhah(n)-nay MARI'm fed up, I've had enough
J'en ai marre des applis.zhah(n)-nay mar day-zah-PLEEI'm fed up with the apps.
Encore un mauvais rendez-vous ?ah(n)-kor a(n) moh-veh rah(n)-day-VOOAnother bad date?
Il est arrivé avec vingt minutes de retard.ee-leh-tah-ree-VAY ah-vehk va(n) mee-newt duh ruh-TARHe arrived twenty minutes late.
toute la soiréetoot lah swah-RAYall evening
Il a parlé de lui toute la soirée.ee-lah par-lay duh LWEE toot lah swah-RAYHe talked about himself all evening.
une seule questionewn suhl kehs-TYOH(N)a single question
Il ne m'a pas posé une seule question !eel nuh mah pah poh-zay ewn suhl kehs-TYOH(N)He didn't ask me a single question!
dix ans de moinsdee-zah(n) duh MWA(N)ten years younger, word for word ten years less

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