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Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

Using the topic of science and technology in France, this free course, Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris, will show you how to structure arguments, write a summary, use the subjunctive, report numbers and express wishes in French.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- express wishes, preferences and necessity
- pronounce numbers and dates
- summarise a text
- structure arguments
- use the subjunctive to express doubt.
First Published: 01/10/2012
Updated: 17/05/2019
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Course content
- Introduction
- Objectifs pédagogiques
- Introduction to the material
- Points clés
- D’entrée de jeu
- Dans le vif du sujet
- Activité 2
- Activité 3
- Stratégie: Enrichir votre vocabulaire
- Activité 4
- Activité 5
- Activité 6
- Activité 7
- Activité 8
- Activité 9
- Activité 10
- Activité 11
- Activité 12
- Activité 13
- Activité 14
- Activité 15
- PC1: L’expression du souhait, de la préférence et de la nécessité
- Activité 16
- Activité 17
- Soutien linguistique: Les formes anciennes de 70, 80 et 90
- PC2: Les nombres, les dates et leur prononciation
- Activité 18
- PC3: L’expression de l’ordre, de l’attente et de l’émotion
- Activité 19
- Activité 20
- PC4: Comment structurer vos arguments
- Activité 21
- Activité 22
- Activité 23
- Activité 24
- PC5: Le résumé de texte
- Activité 25
- PC6: L’emploi du subjonctif pour exprimer le doute
- Activité 26
- Stratégie: L’expression du désaccord
- Activité 27
- PC7: L’expression de l’hypothèse avec « si »
- Activité 28
- Activité 29
- Activité 30
- À vous
- Conclusion
- Glossaire
- Remerciements
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