Taking Grandma phone shopping

"Emmener Mamie acheter un téléphone"
French A2 writing exercise

Marielle took her grandmother to buy a mobile phone.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "a mobile phone [US: cellphone]", "to work (to function)", "a model", "Granny", "a computer", "convinced".

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into French

  • I’ll show you where you make mistakes
  • I’ll keep track of what you need to practise
  • Change my choices if you want
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Yesterday, I took my grandmother to buy a mobile phone. Hers didn't work any more, and she wanted my help choosing her new phone. So, we went to a shop and I showed her the different models. "They're very expensive, these phones!" "Yes Granny, but it's because you can go on the internet, or watch movies with smartphones now." She replied [to me] that she wanted a phone, not a computer! But when I explained [to her] that she could see her grandson on video, she was finally convinced!

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