My love for museum gift shops

"Mon amour pour les magasins de souvenirs de musée"
French B1 writing exercise

Laurent loves museums, and their gift shops even more!

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "a place", "a souvenir shop", "to accompany", "colourful", "full of", "a reproduction (art)", "a painting (art)", "a treasure", "to allow [someone] to do [something]", "to prolong", "beyond [somewhere]", "an exhibition", "framed (adj.)", "a masterpiece", "a keyring", "in the shape of", "a sculpture", "to bring [something] home", "a source".

Written by Qualified French Expert Aurélie Drouard HKH, Licence d'anglais LLCE
Last updated: 2023-07-17

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You’ll practise: Le Présent (Indicatif), Pronom d'objet indirect, Pronom d'objet direct

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I've always loved going to museums, but what I like the most in those places, (they) are the souvenir shops that accompany them. I look at their colourful shelves, full of interesting books, (of) reproductions of famous paintings and (of) unique objects. Each treasure allows me to prolong the experience beyond the doors of the museum or (of) the exhibition. When I buy a book about an artist that I didn't know before, the beautiful framed reproduction of a masterpiece or even a little keyring in the shape of a famous sculpture, it is as if I was bringing a bit of that universe home. To me, these shops are a true source of inspiration.

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