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A little lost dog

"Un petit chien perdu"
French B2 writing exercise

Sébastien helped a lost dog find his home.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to come home from work", "to seem", "a collar (dog)", "stone-hearted", "a creature", "to take [a pet] back home", "to be worth it".

Written by Qualified French Expert Aurélie Drouard HKH, Licence d'anglais LLCE
Last updated: 2023-01-20

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into French

  • I’ll show you where you make mistakes
  • I’ll keep track of what you need to practise
  • Change my choices if you want
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How the test works
You’ll practise: L'Imparfait (Indicatif), Le Passé Composé (Indicatif), Pronom d'objet direct

Here's a preview of the text for the writing challenge, when you're ready click the start button above:

I absolutely must tell you what happened last week! I was coming home from work on Wednesday evening, when I saw before me a dog who seemed lost. Fortunately, he was wearing a collar with a tag on which was his name, Médor, and his address. I could have left him there, but as I'm not a stone-hearted monster (and it wasn't far from where I was going) I took the little creature in my arms and I took him back to his home. If you had seen that little girl's smile... it was really worth it!

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