An afternoon in the fall

"Une après-midi d'automne"
French B1 writing exercise

Zoë is planning to meet her friend Quentin for a nice October afternoon.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "this time of year", "a hedgehog", "a background", "a raincoat", "a latte", "a coffee shop", "to chat at length", "to walk [someone] back [somewhere]".

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into French

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Next week, for the first time in three months, I'll see my best friend Quentin who now lives abroad. As always at this time of year, I'll take my favourite umbrella, the one with the little red hedgehogs on a green background. We'll go to the shopping centre [US: mall], because he told me that he needs a new raincoat, so I'll buy him one for his birthday. Then, we'll have a nice hot latte at our favourite coffee shop where we'll be able to chat at length. And when night starts to fall, I'll walk him back to his hotel.

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