CBF 3:20 | Review of lessons 1-19
This week we’re testing you on what you’ve learned in the first twenty episodes of season 3. We’re providing you with a series of sentences in English to translate into French, and you’ll be encourage...
25 Apr 201119min
CBF 3:19 | Idiomatic expressions and the subjunctive
We rejoin Veronica this week in our series of episodes coming from our featured learners in the south of France. “Veronica” has been getting to know one of her clients and, as we’ll be finding out thi...
17 Apr 201120min
CBF 3:18 | The perfect and imperfect tenses
We knew you’d be desperate to find out how Katie got on at the Cannes Film Festival with Jérôme, so we’re sticking with Katie’s diary entries this week. In this episode you’ll hear a full account of h...
9 Apr 201118min
CBF 3:17 | Focus on the subjunctive and idiomatic expressions
We’re returning to Katie’s texts this week and we’ll be hearing her exciting news about her forthcoming visit to the Cannes Film Festival, thanks to Jérôme’s mother. In this episode we’ll be covering ...
28 Mar 201117min
CBF 3:16 | Looking at triggers for the subjunctive
This week we’re consolidating what we’ve learned so far about the subjunctive in French. We’ll categorise the examples we’ve heard so far in the texts of Alf, Katie and Veronica, and Mark will walk yo...
6 Mar 201117min
CBF 3:15 | Focus on past tenses
This week's lesson focuses on Alf’s diary entry for this week in which he talks a little more about his former career as a teacher. He also shares with us a decision that he has taken which he will re...
26 Feb 201117min
CBF 3:14 | Focus on the perfect, imperfect and pluperfect tenses
It's time to return to Veronica’s diary entries in today's lesson. We’ll be hearing about her recent visit to Italy, and she’ll also be telling us a bit more about her work. Please note that lesson 14...
15 Feb 201117min
CBF 3:13 | Focus on tenses and idiomatic expressions
In this lesson we rejoin Katie and hear her latest news. She’s working in the café and this week discovers that she has in fact met M. Gérard’s son before! Katie will also be talking about what she wo...
12 Feb 201120min
