French Writing Challenges - week 82

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A1 French Writing Challenge

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Topic:
“What do your parents do for a living?”
Grammar lessons included in A1 exercise

A2 French Writing Challenge

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Topic:
“When my daughter was little …”
Grammar lessons included in A2 exercise

B1 French Writing Challenge

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Topic:
“I stopped smoking last November”
Grammar lessons included in B1 exercise

B2 French Writing Challenge

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Topic:
“At the butcher’s”
Grammar lessons included in B2 exercise

C1 French Writing Challenge

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Topic:
“Gastronomical review”
Grammar lessons included in C1 exercise

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Author info

Aurélie Drouard

Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since.  She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!

Laura K Lawless

Laura is a French expert and Kwiziq's Head of Quality Control. Online educator since '99, Laura is passionate about language, travel, and cooking. She's American by birth and a permanent ex-pat by choice - freelancing made it possible for her to travel extensively and live in several countries before settling permanently in Guadeloupe. Laura is the author of Lawless French, Lawless Spanish, and other websites and books on French, Spanish, Italian, English, and vegetarianism. She spends most of her spare time reading, playing with food, and enjoying water sports.

Comments: 2

It is thrilling (le travail). Votre traduction est: "C'est passionnant." Le traduction doit être "Il est passionnant," n'est-ce pas? "C'est" est utilisé pour un non, pas pour un adjectif, n'est-ce pas?

Bonjour Barbara !

Not quite. You can use "c'est" followed by an adjective or a noun (C'est un chat / C'est super!).
The difference here is a nuance of specificity: when you say "Il est passionnant", your statement refers to this work specifically, whereas using "c'est" makes it a general statement on this line of work.
I agree that here the nuance is quite subtle :)

Bonne journée !