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At the coffee machine

"À la machine à café"
French B1 writing exercise

Cyril, Pauline and Eve catch up by the coffee machine on Monday morning.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "Hi girls!", "not much", "a wedding", "a bride", "not anything at all", "jealous of", "to (re)paint", "to recover (exertion)".

Written by Qualified French Expert Aurélie Drouard HKH, Licence d'anglais LLCE
Last updated: 2023-01-20

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into French

  • I’ll show you where you make mistakes
  • I’ll keep track of what you need to practise
  • Change my choices if you want
Start the exercise
How the test works
You’ll practise: Le Passé Composé (Indicatif), Forme négative, Verbe irrégulier

Here's a preview of the text for the writing challenge, when you're ready click the start button above:

- Hi girls! What's up? - Hi Cyril! Not much, and you? Did you have a good weekend? - Yes, we went to a wedding. - Someone that we know? - No, the bride was Charlotte's cousin. - I love weddings! Me, this weekend, I didn't do anything at all! - I'm so jealous of you! I didn't have a minute to myself. Patrick painted the living room, and I had to tidy up and clean everything. I would need another weekend to recover!

I'll be right with you...