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Strikes and demonstrations in France

"Les grèves et les manifestations en France"
French B2 writing exercise

Alex moved to Paris from the USA for work last year. He is chatting with his French friend Emma about strikes in France.

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to move to [a place]", "to work from home", "at least", "either...or...", "a strike", "public transport", "a demonstration", "in the centre of Paris", "regularity", "an event", "astonishing", "to surprise [someone]", "a foreigner", "to happen frequently", "to protest (demonstration)", "[to do] so much", "the government", "discontent", "unfair", "Also....(furthermore)", to contest [something]", "a law".

Written by qualified French expert Céline Pickard PGCE, BA
Last updated: 2025-03-17

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You’ll practise: Le Présent (Indicatif), Préposition, L'Imparfait (Indicatif)

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- Since I moved to Paris, I have had to stay and work from home at least four times! Either there were strikes and no public transport, or there were big demonstrations in the centre of Paris, which meant that I could not go to the office. The regularity of these events is astonishing! - Yes, it is something that can surprise foreigners. Strikes as well as demonstrations do happen frequently in France. - Emma, although it is important to protest, I don't understand why French people do it so much. - We simply want to make sure the government understands our discontent if we believe a decision to be unfair, for example. Also, if no one protested, there would be nobody to contest bad laws.

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