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🇫🇷 French · Intermediate Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 18 OF 30 · 31 MINUTES

If I Were You

At midnight, Hugo finds Emma asleep at her desk, on top of her lesson plans, and she says she wasn't asleep. The next day, Chloe takes one look at her and gives her the same advice he did. Give advice with if I were you, imagine with if and the would form, and tell it apart from an if that can really happen.

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THE STORY

It's Saturday the sixteenth of October. Hugo has come round to watch a film at Emma's studio, and Emma sat down at her desk for five minutes, to finish her lesson plans. Now the film is over, and it's midnight. The next day, at lunch, Chloe takes one look at her. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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tu t'es endormietew teh-zah(n)-dor-MEEyou fell asleep, to a woman
Tu t'es endormie sur ton bureau !tew teh-zah(n)-dor-mee sewr toh(n) bew-ROHYou fell asleep at your desk! With tu, to a woman.
je dormaiszhuh dor-MEHI was sleeping, I was asleep
Je ne dormais pas !zhuh nuh dor-meh PAHI wasn't asleep!
te reposertuh ruh-poh-ZAYto rest, with tu
Tu devrais te reposer.tew duh-vreh tuh ruh-poh-ZAYYou should rest. With tu.
J'ai trop de travail !zhay troh duh trah-VAHYI've got too much work!
à ma placeah mah PLAHSin my place, in my shoes
Qu'est-ce que tu ferais, à ma place ?kehs kuh tew fuh-REH ah mah PLAHSWhat would you do, in my place? With tu.
si j'étais toisee zhay-teh TWAHif I were you

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