A networking New Year's Eve

"Une Saint Sylvestre de réseautage"
French B2 writing exercise

Jacques has to go to a networking party for work on New Year's Eve.

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to take advantage of [something] to [do]", "to spoil [someone]", "to have in mind", "to prefer for [someone] to [do]", "worthy of", "a three-star restaurant", "a close friend", "to get bored", "[someone's] chatter (plural in French)", "to make up for it (=forgiveness)".

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

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You’ll practise: Le Subjonctif Présent, Mode subjonctif, Adjectif possessif

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This year, my company has decided to take advantage of New Year's Eve to spoil our clients with a special evening in Paris, which means that I'll have to work that evening! I don't think that this is what my wife had in mind for this occasion. She would probably have preferred for us to stay home. She'd have organised a dinner worthy of a three-star restaurant, that we'd have shared with our close friends. Instead, I'll spend the evening talking to my clients, while Géraldine gets bored (while) listening to Mrs Poitier's insipid chatter. I'll have to make up for it later.

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