My local area - CCEAWriting and translation practice – my local area

Can you talk about what you like and dislike about where you live? Understand others describing where they live and develop your listening, reading and speaking skills.

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Writing and translation practice – my local area

Please read the following statements and translate into French.

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I live in a semi-detached house in a suburb of Belfast - quite close to a major/big roundabout.

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In my opinion the old part of town is best – it is a pedestrian zone and the buildings are beautiful.

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The traffic in my town is terrible – last week I was in a traffic jam for a half an hour.

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In my local shopping centre there is a grocer’s, cake shop, a fishmongers, a butcher's, a pet shop and a toy shop.

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The seaside resort close to my town has a large bus station that is very busy during the summer.

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In Belfast a pedestrian bridge connects Queen’s Quay and the Titanic quarter.

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When I finish school I want to take a gap year and work in a ski resort.

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I live in the countryside but when I grow up I would like to live at the seaside.

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At the entrance to my village there is a large signpost that welcomes people to the village.