There are no more seasons!

"Il n'y a plus de saisons !"
French C1 writing exercise

Charles and Lucienne lament the recent chaotic weather.

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to notice how...", "a clear winter", "it's like...", "to make one's mind up", "to feel out of whack", "take last week...", "heavy snowfall", "practically", "unsettling (event)", "climate change", "(something) to mess with [something]", "to get more extreme", "a natural disaster", "a flood", "a wildfire", "to worsen", "the very notion...", "to have neither head nor tail", "an ecosystem", "to struggle as a result", "to migrate (animals)", "crops (field)", "to fail (culture)", "the growing seasons (culture)", "to fear that...", "still (in spite of this)", "to fight back".

Written by Qualified French Expert Aurélie Drouard HKH, Licence d'anglais LLCE
Last updated: 2024-10-03

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How the test works
You’ll practise: Le Présent (Indicatif), Adverbe, L'Imparfait (Indicatif)

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- Lucienne, have you noticed how there are no more seasons nowadays? We used to have clear winters and long springs before, whereas now, it's like the weather can't make up its mind. - Totally, everything feels out of whack. Take last week: on Tuesday, we had heavy snowfall, but on Friday, it was practically summer, which was very unsettling! - Climate change is truly messing with everything. Between the temperatures that are getting more and more extreme and the natural disasters like floods and wildfires that are worsening every year, the very notion of "season" has neither head nor tail any more! - Yes, and entire ecosystems are struggling as a result. Animals don't know when to migrate any more, and crops are failing because the growing seasons are off. - Sometimes I fear that it might be too late to fix it. - We still have to try. - You're right. We can't just accept this new reality without fighting back.

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