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Making Halloween decorations

"Fabriquer des décorations d'Halloween"
French A2 writing exercise

Elsie and her mother are making some spooky Halloween decorations.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to keep [something]", "empty", "a bottle", "a toilet paper roll", "to use", "a Halloween decoration", "to help [someone]", "to paint", "to create", "a scary monster", "to cut (scissors)", "paper", "to glue [something] onto...", "terrifying", "a spider".

Written by qualified French expert Céline Pickard PGCE, BA
Last updated: 2023-10-26

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into French

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How the test works
You’ll practise: Pronom d'objet direct, Question/Interrogative, Préposition

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- Mum [US: Mom], why did you keep our empty bottles and our toilet paper rolls? - Because I've had a great idea: we're going to use them in order to make (some) Halloween decorations. Do you want to help me? - Oh yes! What do we do first? - We're going to paint the bottles (in) green to create (some) scary monsters! Now, let's cut some black paper and glue it onto the toilet paper rolls. - What terrifying spiders!

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