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Getting started with French 2
Getting started with French 2

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1 Saying what you dislike

In this section you’ll start to learn how to express what you dislike.

Activity 1

Part 1

In Week 1 you looked at a note Claudette had made with what her guests like to eat and drink. She has now also included her guests dislikes. Read the note in Figure 1 and identify all the words and phrases which express dislike. Write your answers in the box below.

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Figure 1 Food likes and dislikes
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A note with food likes and dislikes of guests attending dinner. The note reads:

Diner de samedi 28 février aves les Lenoir et les Khalife.

  • Ahmed aime beaucoup les desserts, et surtout la glace, mais il n’aime pas les tomates.
  • Chrystelle adore les légumes mais elle n’aime pas du tout les oignons.
  • Benoît aime surtout le poisson et les fruits de mer. Il n’aime pas beaucoup la cuisine nord-africaine.
  • Laura est difficile mais elle aime assez le fromage et la cuisine italienne. Par contre, elle déteste les champignons.
  • Paul aime bien la viande rouge et le vin blanc mais il n’aime pas du tout les cuisines exotiques.
Figure 1 Food likes and dislikes

Vocabulaire

surtout in particular

crudités (f.pl.) raw vegetables with French dressing (typically grated carrots, beetroot, tomatoes, cucumber)

aussi as well

difficile fussy

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You should have identified:

  • Ahmed: n’aime pas
  • Chrystelle: n’aime pas du tout
  • Benoît: n’aime pas beaucoup
  • Laura: déteste
  • Paul: n’aime pas du tout.

Part 2

Now drag and drop the expressions to rank them in order of intensity from ‘dislike a little’, ‘dislike’, ‘strongly dislike’, to ‘hate’.

Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 4 items in each list.

  1. je n’aime pas beaucoup

  2. je n’aime pas

  3. je n’aime pas du tout

  4. je déteste

Match each of the previous list items with an item from the following list:

  • a.strongly dislike

  • b.Dislike a little

  • c.Dislike

  • d.hate

The correct answers are:
  • 1 = b,
  • 2 = c,
  • 3 = a,
  • 4 = d