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In the return taxi

"Dans le taxi du retour"
French B2 writing exercise

Aline talks about her trip with the taxi driver on her way back to the airport.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to have a nice stay", "even better", "so much time [doing] that...", "to deliver (on expectations)", "to go outside [the city]", "the Palace of Versailles", "to leave [someone] speechless", "what else...?", "to try (food)", "to manage to [do]", "to cross out (list)", "Well done!", "a nice trip home".

Written by Qualified French Expert Aurélie Drouard HKH, Licence d'anglais LLCE
Last updated: 2023-10-05

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 Passé Composé (Indicatif), L'Imparfait (Indicatif), Verbes avec être comme auxiliaire

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

- Did you have a nice stay, Miss? - Yes, it was even better than I expected! I had spent so much time thinking about this trip that I could have easily been disappointed, but no, Paris really delivered! - Did you go outside of the capital? - Only the day when I went to Versailles, where Louis XVI's Palace left me speechless! - What else did you do in Paris? - I visited many museums that I found fascinating. And the food! I had written a list of everything I wanted to try, and I managed to cross out the whole list! - Well done! We've arrived. Have a nice trip home!

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