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At the dry cleaner's

"Au pressing"
French B2 writing exercise

Eric brought his favourite suit jacket to the dry cleaner's.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to spill", "a suit jacket", "to suggest", "a professional", "a stain", "to ruin [something]", "such a", "to remove (stain)", "it's last minute", "to have [something] ready".

Written by Qualified French Expert Aurélie Drouard HKH, Licence d'anglais LLCE
Last updated: 2023-01-05

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into French

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How the test works
You’ll practise: Le Présent (Indicatif), Pronom d'objet direct, Verbe irrégulier

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- Hello. I spilled some red wine on my suit jacket yesterday. I would have tried to clean it myself, but my wife suggested that I leave it to the professionals. - And I think your wife was right, Sir. This is indeed quite a large stain and you wouldn't want to ruin such a nice jacket. Luckily, the stain doesn't look too deep so I'm sure our expert will be able to remove it easily. - I would need it for a dinner on Saturday, is that too last minute? - Not at all! Come back tomorrow morning, I'll have it ready for you!

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