The French Experience - Getting around
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Travelling to work
Explaining how people go to work and the range of transport they use. The train is one of the most common methods for travelling in France.
Traffic in Paris
People giving their brief opinions about the state of traffic in Paris.
Traffic police
The challenge of controlling traffic in Paris and what the traffic police do on a daily basis.
- FrançaisEnglish
- chaque joureach day
- aujourd'huitoday
- pendantduring, for
- Comment est-ce que vous allez à votre travail ?How do you get to work? (lit. How do you go to work?)
- Je prends ...I take ...
- ... le train... the train
- ... l'autobus... the bus
- ... le métro... the underground
- ça dépendit depends
- J'habite en banlieueI live in the suburbs
- en métroby underground
- en busby bus
- à piedon foot
- FrançaisEnglish
- (un) aller simplea single (ticket)
- (un) aller-retoura return (ticket)
- demain matintomorrow morning
- le couloirthe aisle
- la fenêtrethe window
- fumeursmoker
- non-fumeurnon-smoker
- un autreanother one
- Je voudrais un billet pour...I'd like a ticket to...
- Vous avez un train à ... heuresThere is a train at ... o'clock
- Je vais prendre celui de ... heuresI'll catch the one at ... o'clock
- en deuxième classesecond class
- Pour combien de personnes ?For how many people?
- Vous payez comment ?How would you like to pay?
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Saying how you get to work
Buying a train ticket
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