Unit 8 recap
Four lessons about travel and memory:
- 🌍 Lesson 29 · Ailleurs → past-participle agreement.
- 🚂 Lesson 30 · Souvenir de voyage → time markers + duration (en/depuis/pendant/pour).
- 📷 Lesson 31 · Album photos → direct & indirect object pronouns + double pronouns.
- ✒️ Lesson 32 · La poésie des villes → writing a poetic text.
In this review, you'll put it all into practice in 3 situations close to DELF A2 exam tasks.
Interview 🎙️
You're a journalist and each month you do an interview with a well-known person for your magazine. Today, you're interviewing Elsa Régnier, a photographer who has just released a new travel-photography album with La Petitia publishers.
💡 For English speakers: note that une interview is a borrowing from English and stays feminine in French. The French press-interview style is more literary and less Q&A than what you'd see in Rolling Stone or The Guardian — expect long descriptive paragraphs around the quotes.
Elsa Régnier — Her first trip
Photographer Elsa Régnier has just released a new travel-photo album with La Petitia. This seasoned traveller tells us about her very first trip abroad.
⚠️ You can listen twice.
Take notes as you listen 📝
Answer the interview questions based on what you hear.
- En quelle année a-t-elle fait son premier voyage ?
- Quel âge avait-elle ?
- Comment s'est passé le voyage ?
- Pendant combien de temps ?
- Avec qui est-elle partie ?
- Pourquoi ce pays ?
- Combien de temps a-t-elle situé là-bas ?
- Est-elle retournée dans ce pays depuis ?
📝 Write the article (120-180 words)
Using your notes, write an article telling the story of Elsa Régnier's first trip. Give it a title, a standfirst, and write the story in passé composé / imparfait.
Package tour 🏝️
Pick one of the two roles below. Prepare your arguments. Then act out the scene with a partner.
💡 For English speakers: un voyage organisé is a "package tour" or "guided group tour". Think of it as a coach trip across Europe with a Trafalgar or Cosmos group — same dynamic. Une agence de voyages is a "travel agency" (not "travel agent" as a person — that would be un agent de voyages).
😤 Role A — The unhappy tourist
You've just come home from a package tour abroad and you're shocked by the group's behaviour during the trip: noise, disrespect at heritage sites, constant lateness, big shopping sprees instead of sightseeing… You talk to the travel agency manager.
💡 Use expressions of consequence (L27: si…que, trop…pour) and the passé composé with agreements.
🛡️ Role B — Travel agent
You work for a travel agency. A tourist was shocked by the group's behaviour during a package tour. You try to find excuses for the group ("it's cultural", "the heat", "they don't know each other"…).
💡 Use c'est… qui / que (L27) and direct & indirect object pronouns (L31) to defend the agency.
Trip to India ✉️
On 10 February, you receive the postcard below. You then write an email to a friend to share the news. You tell her what Pauline and Mathilde have been up to on their holiday.
🇫🇷 Cultural note: Pondichéry (Puducherry) was a French colony in India until 1954, which is why French is still spoken there and the architecture has a Mediterranean feel. The French spelling Bombay is still common in casual writing, even though Mumbai is the official name today.
Bombay, le 15 janvier 2026
Chère Aline,
Mathilde et moi, nous sommes arrivées à Bombay hier après deux heures de retard. Quelle ville incroyable ! Ce matin, nous l'avons traversée à pied : des temples partout, des odeurs d'épices, et la mer au bout !
Demain, nous prenons le train pour Calcutta. Notre amie indienne, Bashila, nous a tout organisé : elle nous y attend à la gare avec sa famille. Ensuite, nous irons trois jours à Pondichéry, l'ancienne ville française, puis à Chennai. Nous voulons aussi voir le Taj Mahal, à Agra. Bref, le programme est chargé !
Nous t'écrirons depuis le sud. Tu nous manques !
Bises, Pauline & Mathilde
📧 Write your email to Aline (100-150 words)
Quick self-test
Tick everything you can do after Unit 8:
✅ 8/10 or more? You're ready for the final unit — My wishes, my opinions! Only 4 lessons and the DELF A2 final mock exam to go.
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