Our favourite pastries for breakfast

"Nos viennoiseries préférées au petit-déjeuner"
French A2 writing exercise

Ophélie and Élise are talking about their favourite breakfast pastries.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to like [doing]", "to eat", "for breakfast", "really", "a pastry", "a local bakery", "delicious", "what about you?", "a preference", "a brioche", "a favourite", "but", "to be little (youth)", "a croissant", "a lot of [something]", "butter", "jam", "to dunk [something] in [a drink]", "hot chocolate", "extraordinary", "to be hungry", "now".

Written by qualified French expert Céline Pickard PGCE, BA
Last updated: 2025-09-18

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- Élise, what do you like eating for breakfast? - I really love pastries! At the weekend, I go to my local bakery because their pastries are delicious. What about you, do you have a preference? - Yes, brioches are my favourite. But when I was little, I used to eat (some) croissants with a lot of butter and (of) jam. I would dunk them in (some) hot chocolate. It was extraordinary! - I'm really hungry now, I'm going to go to the bakery!

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