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Time: 15 hours
Level: Intermediate
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 Introduction Resource- This unit helps you to acquire the basic language to find your way around a French town. You will learn how to understand and give directions, ask about accommodation, book a hotel room at the tourist...
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- Autour d'Avignon Resource
- In this session, you and and your friend Christine are exploring Avignon. You look at the town plan opposite the station, and Christine stops a passer-by to ask for help.
- Activités 2 et 3 Resource
- Listen to Extract 40 in which you ask Christine where three places are. Speak after each prompt. The first one has been done as an example.
- Le rôle du touriste Resource
- Listen to Extract 41 and take the part of the tourist.
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- Une chambre d'hôtel Resource
- In this session, you go to the tourist information office to book a hotel room.
- Activité 8 Resource
- 1. In Extract 43 you heard some of the language you will need to book a hotel room. Match the French with the English.
- Activité 9 Resource
- 1. Look at the following icons you would find in a hotel brochure. Find the English equivalents of the French words and phrases.
- Activités 10 et 11 Resource
- 1. You want to know if there is satellite TV, free parking, Internet connection and a gym in your hotel. Listen to the prompts in Extract 45 and ask the questions, making sure you use the correct intonation....
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- L'Ardèche Resource
- Demande des directions Resource
- 1. Listen to these people asking for directions to the attractions they want to visit. Make a note of the attractions they're looking for.
- Activités 14 et 15 Resource
- Getting about Resource
- Earlier (Session 1) you met the expression:
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- Les nombres, les jours et les dates Resource
- In this session, you will be studying numbers, days and dates.
- La date de votre anniversaire Resource
- In Extract 56, we asked people about their birthdays: Quelle est la date de votre anniversaire? Listen and make a note of the answers.
- Bonne fête! Resource
- On French calendars, most days commemorate a particular saint. When the saint's name is the same as yours, some people like to say Bonne fête! Children might receive a small present or you might be expected...
- Using ‘quel’, ‘quelle’ Resource
- You have already come across the following question:
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- La révision Resource
- In this session you will revise asking for directions, saying how to get about, asking about accommodation, using quel and quelle, using il y a, numbers and dates and talking about yourself.
- Activités 26 et 27 Resource
- Prepare a short oral description of a town with which you are familiar. In your presentation, include the following:
- Une brochure de détails d'hôtel Resource
- Look at the brochure, which you picked up at the tourist information office in Avignon, and answer the questions below.
- Activités 30 et 31 Resource
- Listen to people talking about dates in the French calendar. Note the dates of the events in the table below.
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| | Faites les bilan: Sessions 1–5
- Faites les bilan: Sessions 1–5 Resource
- Now that you have finished the first five sessions of this unit, you should be able to:
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- Les musées d'Avignon Resource
- In this session, you decide to visit one of the museums in Avignon.
- Au bureau de vente de billets Resource
- You decide to go and visit the musée Calvet. Listen to the conversation in Extract 62 between Christine and the assistant. Make a note of the entry fee according to the information you hear.
- Telling the time Resource
- To ask the time, you say:
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- Learning about verbs Resource
- Purchasing goods and services Resource
- Here are some phrases used in photography. Match the French and English equivalents
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- Looking at a plan Resource
- You will be looking at a plan of the museum in order to find your way around.
- Au musée Resource
- In our example, the museum had four floors. Au rez-de-chaussée (ground floor) means literally ‘at the same level as the carriageway’. Some buildings will also have a rez-de-jardin when the rear of the...
- Understanding notices Resource
- Look at this notice inside the museum. Note which of the items in the table below are permitted and which are forbidden.
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- Years Resource
- In this session you visit the musée Angladon-Dubrujeaud, where you find out about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh.
- Le musée Angladon-Dubrujeaud Resource
- Listen to Extract 71 in which you hear a museum guide talking about van Gogh. Match the events to the dates on which they occurred and put them in chronological order.
- Activité 55 Resource
- Lisez et notez les verbes.
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- Revision: choosing and booking hotels Resource
- In this session, you will revise choosing and booking hotel rooms, understanding directions, identifying and using dates (years).
- Revision: directions and dates Resource
- In Extract 74 we asked some Avignonnais for directions. Listen and match the places, times and means of transport, according to their answers.
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| | Faites le bilan: Sessions 6 – 10
- Faites le bilan: Sessions 6 – 10 Resource
- Now that you have finished the last five sessions of this unit, you should be able to:
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