Educational Support Material by the University of Aix-Marseille Education Material France- EN | Page 16
LANGUAGE SKILLS
a) Identifying the name of the different shops:
- shops selling goods (butcher, baker, market gardener…);
- shops providing services (cobbler, seamstress…).
b) Indicating the action of the characters by using different structures:
“N1 sells N2”: A cobbler repairs shoes.
“There is a N1 who V N2”: There is a cobbler who repairs shoes.
“This is N1 who V N2”: This is a cobbler who repairs shoes.
c) Using the conditional tense and the interrogative form in the dialogue with the merchant:
Could you…?
I would like to buy…
Would it be possible to…?
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