👋🏽 I'm Saf. I teach CAPE French at Arc School: live classes each week, lesson resources, exam practice and personalised coaching for the May–June 2027 exams. In this lesson, answer every question yourself before you look at mine. Just don't copy my answers. The whole point is to say it in your own French.
Bonjour mes amis 👋🏽
Reading a French passage is one thing. Answering questions on it in your own French is harder. The words in the passage are right there, and it's tempting to copy them.
That's what we'll work on today. By the end of this lesson you will be able to:
understand a French passage on growing up, paragraph by paragraph;
answer questions on it in your own French, with every idea the question asks for;
read a passage you haven't seen, about family life in Martinique;
use what a study found to support your view, and say what it doesn't show.
In the full lesson I take you through the passage, show you how I build an answer in my own words, and then you try it on a new passage.
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Grab a pen. Here's the passage. ✍🏽