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In Town: Places & Transport
Name the places of a town, say where they are and take the bus or the metro.
Find your way around a French-speaking city. Learn the names of public places and services, the contractions au, à la, aux and chez, the prepositions of place (à côté de, en face de), and the vocabulary of public transport to buy a ticket and get off at the right station.
Lessons
- 1
Places in town
Name the places of a town and say where you are going with à la, au, chez.
- 2
Where is it? Prepositions of place
Locate a place: next to, opposite, between, behind, on the corner of.
- 3
Public transport
Take the bus or the metro: buy a ticket, ask which line, understand where to get off.
Final assessment
Ten questions drawn from the whole course. Score 70% or more to earn your certificate.
What you will be able to do
- 01Name places and services in town
- 02Use au, à la, aux and chez
- 03Say where a place is
- 04Take public transport
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