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A birthday at the adventure park

"Un anniversaire au parc de loisirs"
French A2 writing exercise

Patrick tells his mother about how his son's birthday party went.

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "a birthday party", "everyone", "to have fun", "an adventure park", "an obstacle", "a climbing wall", "to receive [something]", "a ninja headband", "stylish (person)", "to go on an obstacle course", "sandwiches", "crisps [US: potato chips]", "sweets [US: candy]", "to drink [something]", "a lot of [something]", "soda", "to become [adjective]", "completely", "to go back to [an activity]", "to smile", "the whole time".

Written by qualified French expert Céline Pickard PGCE, BA
Last updated: 2026-01-08

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How the test works
You’ll practise: Le Passé Composé (Indicatif), Verbes avec être comme auxiliaire, L'Imparfait (Indicatif)

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- Patrick, how did Louis's birthday party go? - Everyone had fun, Mum [US: Mom]! Louis wanted to go to the new adventure park. There were many obstacles and (some) climbing walls. The children received ninja headbands and they were really stylish! They went on the obstacle course for an hour. Then, they ate some sandwiches, (some) crisps [US: potato chips] and (some) sweets [US: candy], and they drank a lot of soda. After all that, they became completely wild, so they went back to the obstacle course. Louis smiled the whole time!

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