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Tom's first day back to school

"La rentrée de Tom"
French A2 writing exercise

Émilie tells us about her son Tom's first day of school.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to go (event)", "easily", "cereal", "a school bag", "to be proud to [do]", "to carry [something]", "on the way to", "to enter [somewhere]", "a classroom", "invisible".

Written by Qualified French Expert Aurélie Drouard HKH, Licence d'anglais LLCE
Last updated: 2023-01-20

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into French

  • I’ll show you where you make mistakes
  • I’ll keep track of what you need to practise
  • Change my choices if you want
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How the test works
You’ll practise: Le Passé Composé (Indicatif), Verbes avec être comme auxiliaire, Reflexive verbs

Here's a preview of the text for the writing challenge, when you're ready click the start button above:

- How did Tom's first day back to school go? - It went well! He woke up on time, and he ate all his cereal. He loves his new school bag and he was proud to carry it on the way to school. When we entered the classroom, he was a bit shy, but his friend Mathieu arrived, they started playing together and I became invisible!

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