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At the grocery store

"À l'épicerie"
French A2 writing exercise

Julie and Frank need some things from the grocery store.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "a (bell) pepper", "to check", "the fridge", "tonight", "a sauce", "to make a dish", "maybe", "... anything else?", "to have no...left", "toilet paper", "a bottle", "olive oil", "to wait", "to forget", "to have cash on [oneself]", "to pay by card", "here".

Written by Qualified French Expert Aurélie Drouard HKH, Licence d'anglais LLCE
Last updated: 2023-01-04

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
Start the exercise
How the test works
You’ll practise: Le Présent (Indicatif), Question/Interrogative, Préposition

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

- Do we have any (bell) peppers at home? - No, I checked in the fridge this morning. - I'm going to buy two red (bell) peppers for tonight's sauce. - Oh, are you making my favourite dish? - Maybe... Do we need anything else? - Yes, we have no toilet paper left and I'm also going to get a bottle of olive oil. - Good idea! Let's go and pay. - Wait, I forgot the tomatoes. - Do you have cash on you? - No, but we can pay by card here.

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