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Studying abroad

"Étudier à l'étranger"
French B1 writing exercise

Louis decided to go study abroad next year.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to make a decision", "uni [US: college]", "to encourage [someone] to [do]", "a foreign country", "to decide to [do]", "to convince [someone] to [do]", "to follow [someone]", "a plane ticket", "can't wait to [do]".

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
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How the test works
You’ll practise: Le Passé Composé (Indicatif), Le Présent (Indicatif), Pronom d'objet direct

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I made my decision: next year, I'll go study abroad! At uni [US: In college], teachers used to encourage students to spend six months or a year in a foreign country, but it scared me a little. After all, I've never lived more than twenty kilometres away from my parents' house! I don't know what I would do without my mother who takes care of everything for me! But when my best friend Miriam decided to do it, she convinced me to follow her! Yesterday, we bought our plane tickets for September 10, and now, I can't wait to be there!

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