Lesson summary
The key points to remember, for revision.
- 1For: favorable, excellente idée. Against: contre, inacceptable. Nuanced: oui mais, d’un côté… de l’autre.
- 2Tone matters: exaggerated praise of something unpleasant = irony.
- 3After mais, pourtant, cependant, en revanche comes the real opinion.
Key vocabulary
| favorable | in favour |
| agacé | annoyed |
| pourtant | yet, however |
| en revanche | on the other hand |
| c’est n’importe quoi | it’s ridiculous (informal) |