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# 2.11.2 Revision: directions and dates

## Activité 58

In Extract 74 we asked some Avignonnais for directions. Listen and match the places, times and means of transport, according to their answers.

Écoutez et reliez les expressions.

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Audio 36

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le commissariat |  | 5 minutes | en voiture
l'office du tourisme | est à environ | 7 minutes | à pied
l'hôpital |  | 10 minutes | en bus
la gare |  | 15 minutes |
|  | 20 minutes |

1. Make up four phrases to express where the destinations are. Here's how:

   Faites quatre phrases.

   Le commissariat est à environ ______minutes_______.

### Answer

1/2 Le commissariat est à environ sept minutes à pied.

L'office du tourisme est à environ quinze minutes à pied.

L'hôpital est à environ dix minutes en voiture et à environ vingt minutes en bus.

La gare est à environ cinq minutes en voiture.

You may have noticed that the last speaker said à cinq minutes environ, which is also correct.

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## Activité 59

Match the French words in the left-hand column with their English equivalents in the right-hand column.

Trouvez les équivalents.

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1 un parking | (a) trainers
2 un pull | (b) shampoo
3 un camping | (c) a car park
4 les baskets | (d) a jumper
5 un self | (e) a camp site
6 le shampooing | (f) a coach
7 un car | (g) a self-service restaurant
8 une phrase | (h) exchange
9 un voyage | (i) change
10 la monnaie | (j) fantastic
11 le change | (k) a sentence
12 formidable | (l) likeable
13 sympathique | (m) a journey

### Answer

1 (c), 2 (d), 3 (e), 4 (a), 5 (g), 6 (b), 7 (f), 8 (k), 9 (m), 10 (i), 11 (h), 12 (j), 13 (l)

## Activité 60

1. Say these dates.

   Dites ces dates.

   - 04/04/2004

   - 25/01/1963

   - 01/07/1978

   - 16/09/1999

2. Say the date you were born.

   Votre date de naissance?

### Answer

1 You should have said:

- le quatre avril, deux mille quatre

- le vingt-cinq janvier, mille neuf cent soixante-trois

- le premier juillet, mille neuf cent soixante-dix-huit

- le seize septembre, mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf

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