A busy weekend

"Un weekend chargé"
French A1 writing exercise

Pauline shares her plans for the weekend with her friend Benoît.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "a lot of + [something]", "an activity", "to do the food shop [US: to buy groceries]", "to come for dinner", "at [someone's] place", "to do the cleaning (chore)", "to tidy one's room", "to go out", "to help [someone]", "to move (house)", "busy (day)", "to go to bed", "early (= at an early time)".

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into French

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  • I’ll keep track of what you need to practise
  • Change my choices if you want
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How the test works

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- Pauline, what are you going to do on Saturday? - I'm going to do a lot of activities. On Saturday morning, I'm going to do the food shop [US: to buy groceries] because (some) friends are going to come for dinner at our place. In the afternoon, my husband and I are going to do the cleaning and our children are going to tidy their rooms. - And what are you going to do on Sunday? Are you going to go out? - No, we are going to help my sister because she is moving (house). - That's a busy weekend! - Yes! But on Sunday evening, I'm going to go to bed early.

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