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DELF A1 reading: which lost bag matches the notice?

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Match a blue bag with a red pocket to a French found-object notice. Read three descriptions and check the collection place, contact and closing time.

In short

Match the object and both colours: un sac bleu avec une poche rouge. The notice also gives a collection place, a contact and a closing time.

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Objets trouvés · centre sportif

L’avis à l’accueil

Objet trouvé1 : un sac bleu avec une petite poche rouge. Il est à l’accueil2 du centre sportif. Pour le récupérer3, demandez à Lina. Le centre ferme à dix-huit heures.

Trois personnes cherchent un objet

Nora : « J’ai perdu un sac bleu avec une poche rouge. »

Adam : « J’ai perdu un sac rouge avec une poche bleue. »

Samir : « J’ai perdu une veste bleue avec une poche rouge. »

Read it in English

Found item: a blue bag with a small red pocket. It is at the sports centre reception. To collect it, ask Lina. The centre closes at six in the evening.

Nora: “I lost a blue bag with a red pocket.” Adam: “I lost a red bag with a blue pocket.” Samir: “I lost a blue jacket with a red pocket.”

Look at the whole object

Study first: which noun does the colour describe?

Two nouns, two descriptions
Main objectExtra featureEnglish
un sac bleuune poche rougea blue bag, a red pocket
un sac rougeune poche bleuea red bag, a blue pocket
une veste bleueune poche rougea blue jacket, a red pocket
Question 1No account needed
Whose description matches the notice?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

Celle de Nora.. Nora describes the right object and colour pattern: a blue bag with a red pocket.

Question 2No account needed
Why does Adam’s description fail to match?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

The colours are reversed.. Adam’s bag is red and its pocket blue; the notice describes the reverse.

Question 3No account needed
Where should the person collect the bag?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

À l’accueil du centre sportif.. The notice places the bag at the sports centre reception.

Question 4No account needed
Who should they ask?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

Lina.. Demandez à Lina names the contact for collecting the bag.

Question 5No account needed
When does the centre close?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

À dix-huit heures.. Dix-huit heures is 18:00, or six in the evening.

At reception

Bonjour, je cherche mon sac. Il est bleu avec une poche rouge.

Hello, I’m looking for my bag. It’s blue with a red pocket.

Pour le récupérer, je dois demander à Lina ?

To collect it, should I ask Lina?

Try replacing sac with veste: the description becomes elle est bleue. Keep the colour attached to the correct noun when you describe a second item.

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