Moving to France

"Déménager en France"
French C1 writing exercise

Christine is about to make her lifelong dream of living in France a reality.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "as long as I can remember", "to move [somewhere]", "as often happens in life", "(things) to go another way", "to resign oneself [to the fact] that ...", "in a corner of one's mind", "to picture [something]", "a thousand different ways", "to guess", "this way", "to find oneself facing [something]", "to intimidate [someone]", "to leave [someone] lost", "to sign [someone] up (class)", "a conversation class (course)", "to feel like [something's happening]", "things to fall into place", "to be meant to be (event)", "fairy-tale (adj.)", "perched (place)", "to overlook [somewhere] (place)", "it's never too late", "to make one's dreams come true".

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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As long as I can remember, I had always dreamed of moving to the south of France one day. But as often happens in life, things went another way, and I'd resigned myself [to the fact] that France would remain in a hidden corner of my mind. And to be honest, though I pictured that dream a thousand different ways, I could have never guessed that it would happen this way! After my divorce, I found myself facing an ocean of possibilities that intimidated me and left me a bit lost. But when my daughter Lisa signed me up for a French conversation class, I felt like things were naturally falling into place. And the day I met Jean-Luc at one of those classes, I truly believed that all this was meant to be. In three weeks, we'll be moving to Domme, a fairy-tale village, perched on top of a hill that overlooks the magnificent Dordogne Valley. Trust me, it's never too late to make one's dreams come true!

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