At an international school

"Dans une école internationale"
French A1 writing exercise

Schoolmates Emma, Luis and Yasmine talk about their respective countries' Independence Days.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "Hello! / Hi!", "to be from [a country]", "Canada", "to watch [something]", "fireworks", "family", "every year", "Mexican", "a country", "to celebrate [something]", "independence", "to decorate [something]", "a street", "a flag", "to eat", "a lot of [things]", "delicious", "Algerian / Algeria", "us too", "a concert", "together", "this year".

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

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

- Hello! My name is Emma and I'm from Canada. Our Independence Day is on July 1st. I watch the fireworks with my family every year. - Hi, I'm Luis and I'm Mexican. In my country, we celebrate our independence on September 16th. We decorate the streets with (some) flags and we eat a lot of chiles en nogada. It's delicious! - Hello, I'm Yasmine and I'm Algerian. Algeria celebrates its independence on July 5th. Us too, we have (some) concerts, (some) flags and (some) fireworks. - Let's celebrate together this year!

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