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The GPS is malfunctioning!

"Le GPS ne fonctionne pas bien !"
French C1 writing exercise

Rémi and Isabelle's car GPS is malfunctioning!

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to be in such a mess", "to go around in circles", "the road network", "to sort [something] out", "to struggle to [do]", "to connect to [something]", "to be convinced of", "to update (electronics)", "blasted (= damn)", "to restart (device)", "to fix a problem".

Written by qualified French expert Céline Pickard PGCE, BA
Last updated: 2023-10-05

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into French

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  • I’ll keep track of what you need to practise
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How the test works
You’ll practise: Pronom d'objet direct, Pronom d'objet indirect, Le Présent (Indicatif)

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- Rémi, I cannot believe that we're in such a mess! The GPS has made us go around in circles for an hour! It's even telling us to take roads which don't exist anymore on the road network. - Don't worry, my love! We're going to sort it out! I'm sure that the GPS is just struggling to connect to the satellite. - I am really not convinced (of that), Rémi ! I'd specifically asked you to update the GPS before we left. I even wanted us to buy another one, to be honest! If you'd done it, we would not have ended up in that situation! Now, we'll never arrive on time for our appointment, all that because of this blasted machine which has a mind of its own! - Let me try and restart it, maybe that will fix the problem! Look, it's working! I told you so!

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