<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Arc School: CAPE French]]></title><description><![CDATA[CAPE French: Live classes twice a week, guided practice, feedback and community. Join now.]]></description><link>https://www.joinarc.school/s/cape-french</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uaWW!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fddc55277-de04-47a3-8202-e6970a38eb72_1024x1024.png</url><title>Arc School: CAPE French</title><link>https://www.joinarc.school/s/cape-french</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:19:25 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.joinarc.school/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[StoryDip Media]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[arcschool@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[arcschool@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Kerry Peters]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Kerry Peters]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[arcschool@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[arcschool@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Kerry Peters]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[How to Talk About Family Life in French (CAPE)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Say how your family works, how you get on and what you think about family life, with every verb, article and ending correct.]]></description><link>https://www.joinarc.school/p/how-to-talk-about-family-life-in</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.joinarc.school/p/how-to-talk-about-family-life-in</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Safiya Peters]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:53:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1996eccc-2d5b-4f35-ac27-f8dc8cfd705c_1600x1600.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#128075;&#127997; I'm Saf. I teach CAPE French at Arc School: live classes each week, lesson resources, exam practice and personalised coaching for the May&#8211;June 2027 exams. In this lesson, listen first, then build each sentence yourself. Just don't learn my sentences by heart. Make every sentence about your own family.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C0mP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdecd8551-300c-4234-ba90-f1327fefe233_1600x900.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C0mP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdecd8551-300c-4234-ba90-f1327fefe233_1600x900.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C0mP!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdecd8551-300c-4234-ba90-f1327fefe233_1600x900.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C0mP!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdecd8551-300c-4234-ba90-f1327fefe233_1600x900.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C0mP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdecd8551-300c-4234-ba90-f1327fefe233_1600x900.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C0mP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdecd8551-300c-4234-ba90-f1327fefe233_1600x900.png" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/decd8551-300c-4234-ba90-f1327fefe233_1600x900.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:98074,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.joinarc.school/i/218058753?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdecd8551-300c-4234-ba90-f1327fefe233_1600x900.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C0mP!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdecd8551-300c-4234-ba90-f1327fefe233_1600x900.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C0mP!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdecd8551-300c-4234-ba90-f1327fefe233_1600x900.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C0mP!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdecd8551-300c-4234-ba90-f1327fefe233_1600x900.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C0mP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdecd8551-300c-4234-ba90-f1327fefe233_1600x900.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Bonjour mes amis &#128075;&#127997;</p><p>At CAPE, you need more than who is in your family. You have to say how your family works, how you get on and what you think about family life. The ideas get bigger, and that's where the small mistakes creep in: a verb that doesn't match, a missing article, an ending you forgot.</p><p>Today we fix those three, one correct sentence at a time. By the end of this lesson you will be able to:</p><ul><li><p>describe how your family is made up and how you get on, in full French sentences;</p></li><li><p>make the verb match when you talk about <strong>la famille</strong>, <strong>les jeunes</strong>, <strong>tout le monde</strong> or <strong>mes grands-parents</strong>;</p></li><li><p>keep the article when you talk about family life in general;</p></li><li><p>make every describing word agree;</p></li><li><p>say 12 phrases about family life from memory, in an order you can use in the oral.</p></li></ul><p>In the full lesson you'll hear me say every phrase, then say it back until you can answer family questions in your oral without looking.</p><p>If you are reading the free preview, subscribe to Arc to unlock the complete lesson. If you are already one of my students, keep going.</p><p>Get a pen. 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