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A new pet

"Un nouvel animal de compagnie"
French A2 writing exercise

While on a walk with her new pet, Noémie bumps into Grégory, her neighbour.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to look after [someone]", "a pet", "to adopt [someone]", "great !", "now", "an apartment", "an animal shelter", "what a ...!", "to adapt to [something]", "nervous", "in the beginning", "but", "to be relaxed".

Written by qualified French expert Céline Pickard PGCE, BA
Last updated: 2024-11-18

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: Question/Interrogative, Adjectif possessif, Adjectif

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

- Hello Noémie! Are you looking after your parents' dog? - No, Grégory! This is Caramel, my new pet. I adopted him last week. - Great! I love his name. Why did you want a dog? - Dogs are my favourite animals. And now, I have a big apartment, so I went to the town's animal shelter. - What a good idea! How is he adapting to his new home? - He was very nervous in the beginning but he's more relaxed now.

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