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Higher Still FRENCH
Le voyage de Géraldine
Stage 3: Writing
1. You are going to describe a trip which you made in Provence. The two
sheets provided give you information about the climate and the countryside,
the route you follow and the names of various towns or places of interest
you might visit on your trip. There is no need for you to understand all the
words used in the texts, so do not waste your time looking them up in the
dictionary. They are there to guide you regarding the weather you might
experience, the type of countryside you would travel through, and the places
you might stay or go to look at.
While you do not need to understand all the vocabulary, there is one
structure on the first sheet which might cause you problems. We read
there le touriste traverse la plaine que domine le majestueux Mont
Ventoux. The subject of domine comes after the verb and que is the
object. The sense of the phrase is “the tourist crosses the plain which
majestic Mont Ventoux overlooks”, but this is very awkward English and a
better rendering would be to say “the tourist crosses the plain which is
overlooked by majestic Mont Ventoux”, i.e. make the verb passive and put
by before the subject.
This structure is very common in French. Indeed, there are three other
examples on this sheet. Can you find them and translate them?
2. You are travelling from Orange to Arles.
Using the phrases you have gathered from Géraldine's account of her
trip, information from the two sheets and any details from other work
which you have done, describe your journey in 120 to 150 words,
mentioning:
when you made the trip and with whom;
where you stopped for the night and the type of accommodation you had;
the weather you had;
what you did;
how you travelled;
what you liked/disliked about your trip.
Show this work to your teacher.
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Higher French: The Wider World
Holidays and Travel
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