Ma famille est démodée!

1 Find the French equivalent of these phrases in the text and copy them out.

1 most of the time 2 well-dressed 3 it’s a disaster! 4 my father has no fashion sense 5 an Armani suit 6 too much gold jewellery 7 she looks ridiculous 8 we need to completely change her look 9 He always wears black10 I would like to see him in

2 How many adjectives can you fi nd in the text? Copy out ten or more with their meanings and write MS (masculine singular), FS (feminine singular), MP (masculine plural) or FP (feminine plural) next to each one.

3 Are the following sentences True (T), False (F) or not mentioned (?)?

Julie often buys designer clothes. 1 Her favourite colours are light blue and 2 red. She bought her Levi jeans in a sale. 3 Her father always wears a tracksuit in 4 winter. She likes the way her father dresses. 5 Julie’s mother used to be slim. 6 Julie’s mother buys a lot of clothes. 7 Julie would like her brother to wear more 8 colours.

5 Now write a competition entry to win a fashion makeover for you and your family.

Adapt Julie’s text and use ●

language from Déjà vu 2 exercise 10 and units 5 and 6.Write at least 200 words. ●

Look at the blue box on the ●

right. Start by writing about yourself. Make this your opening paragraph. Then write a paragraph about ●

each member of your family.Finish with a short paragraph ●

about why it is important that you win the competition and a punchy concluding line, as Julie has done.

Check what you have written carefully. Check:

adjective endings and ●

position spelling, especially ●

words with lots of vowels (couleur, beaucoup, pourquoi)accents: Don’t confuse ●

grave accents (frère, très) with acute accents (préféré, désastre). Don’t forget cedillas (ça) and circumfl exes (coûte)tense formation, ●

especially verb endings (j’achète, j’ai acheté, j’achèterai).

Check what you have Introduction

Say what you think of fashion.Describe the sort of clothes you wear most of the time/when you go out.What was the last item of clothing you bought?

Main paragraphsDescribe how the members of your family dress.What do you think of what they wear?Say how you would like to change their look.

ConclusionSay why you want to win this competition.What will happen if you win this competition? How will you feel if you win?

To achieve a Grade C, you need to show that you can use a variety of tenses, structures and expressions. Julie uses colours and other ◆ adjectives to describe what she and her family wear. Remember, adjectives must agree with the noun they refer to.Julie uses the ◆ present tense to describe what she and others wear, the perfect tense to say what she bought and the future tense to say what will happen if she wins the competition. Try to include ◆ Il faut + infi nitive. Look at how Julie uses this to say what needs to be done about her mother’s look.

Candidates who are aiming higher than a Grade C should be able to write correctly about other people, as well as themselves, and use other tenses.

Julie uses the ◆ imperfect tense to describe how her mother used to look, and the conditional to say what she would like her brother to wear.Look at how Julie has used interesting ◆ connectives (e.g. de plus) to link her sentences and plenty of time and frequency expressions (e.g. de temps en temps).

To really impress the examiner and aim for an A* Grade:include less common ◆ negatives, such as ne … jamais (never) and ne … aucun (not … any). Look at how Julie has done this.use ◆ direct object pronouns to replace nouns you have already mentioned, e.g. Je voudrais le voir avec …

Épate l’examinateur!Try combining several adjectives in ◆a sentence. Make sure you position them correctly (before or after the noun) and use agreement where necessary, e.g. un vieux jogging marron très moche.

4 You might be asked to write about fashion or to describe what you and others wear as a controlled assessment task. Use the Grade Studio to help you prepare.

avoir besoin de – to need toun(e) lycéen(ne) – a secondary-school studentavoir quelques kilos en trop – to be a bit overweightJ’espère qu’on aura de la chance – I hope we will be lucky

Je m’intéresse beaucoup à la mode et j’adore les grandes marques, mais je suis lycéenne et ça coûte trop cher pour moi. De temps en temps, j’achète des vêtements de marque, mais la plupart du temps je porte une jupe, avec un haut en coton. Mes couleurs préférées sont le bleu clair et le rose. Le dernier vêtement que j’ai acheté est un jean Levis que j’ai trouvé en solde. Moi, je suis toujours bien habillée. Mais ma famille, c’est un désastre! Question mode, mon père n’a aucune idée. En été, il porte des chemises hawaïennes et un short horrible. De plus, en hiver, il porte tout le temps un vieux jogging marron très moche. C’est affreux! Pourquoi pas un costume Armani avec une belle chemise? Ma mère fait plus d’efforts, mais elle porte trop de bijoux en or et une robe trop serrée. Quand elle était plus jeune, elle était mince, mais maintenant elle a quelques kilos en trop et elle a l’air ridicule! À mon avis, il faut changer complètement son look. Finalement, il y a mon frère aîné. Lui, il s’habille toujours en noir. Il ne porte jamais de couleurs. Je

voudrais le voir avec un tee-shirt blanc et un beau jean bleu. Si on gagne votre concours, on sera une famille à la mode et je serai très contente. J’espère qu’on aura de la chance!

Julie

Gagnez un changement de look pour votre famille! Écrivez-nous pour expliquer pourquoi votre famille a besoin de changer son look.

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