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Is « un chat sympa » not a good translation?

above was marked correct but next question what is a gendarme required qu'est-ce que c'est;

ive gone through to c1 and come back to revise and practise but still dont understand this topic, its obviously a mental block on my behalf but can any one make it simpler please?

I am listening to your examples and am not hearing any difference.. is that my lack of discrimination or are they actually the same?

1. Nous dansons.  

2. Je lis un livre.

3. Marie etudie le francais.

4. Marc et Paul ecoutent la musique.

5. Vous faites une promenade.

6.Est-ce que tu regardes la tele?

Could you just confirm whether, as a woman, I should be writing

Je suis allée..

Je suis partie... etc..

Thanks

I enjoy these weekly writing challenges and learn a lot through them.  Still, I become a little frustrated when it becomes evident that I have chosen different  French translations for the suggested English words presented.  My choices may be fine synonyms at best, but the  concern is that they aren't really the best words for those contexts.  I recognize the value of looking things up ourselves,
but would it be possible to provide the exact French vocabulary we are to learn for these exercises instead of the English? 

I'm curious about the use of the future tense throughout this paragraph. Was that a stylistic decision? In English, I can imagine the same paragraph using either present tense or even conditional tense. Would those tenses also be acceptable in French instead of future tense?