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First Listening Practice (A1)
Short, slow, everyday recordings to start understanding spoken French.
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The Old Québec Mystery: a Detective Story
A painting vanishes. Listen to the witnesses, catch the lies and find the thief.
A listening course in the form of a detective story in six chapters. A painting worth 800,000 dollars disappears from a gallery in Old Québec the night before an auction. As the inspector’s assistant, you listen to the witness, question three suspects, check an alibi in a phone call and find how the thief got the alarm code. Every clue is a listening exercise: times, places, the passé composé and the imparfait of an alibi. In the last chapter, you name the culprit and lead the final interview.
Lessons
- 1
Chapters 1 and 2: the painting has disappeared
A painting worth 800,000 dollars vanishes from a gallery in Old Québec. Listen to the first witness and collect the clues.
- 2
Chapters 3 and 4: the suspects speak
Question the gallery owner, the restorer and a rich collector, then check an alibi by phone. One of them is lying.
- 3
Chapters 5 and 6: the code and the culprit
Find out how the thief got the alarm code, name the culprit, and lead the final interview until he confesses.
Final assessment
Ten questions drawn from the whole course. Score 70% or more to earn your certificate.
What you will be able to do
- 01Understand times, places and actions in a statement
- 02Compare two versions of the same facts
- 03Use passé composé and imparfait in a story
- 04Write a short report
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French on the Phone
Calls you only hear, as in real life: answer, spell, book, leave a message.