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Keep, move or cut? French paragraph unity quiz

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Practise keeping a French paragraph focused with eight revision questions. Separate a useful reason, a relevant limit and a detail that belongs elsewhere.

In short

Keep sentences that help the paragraph do its main job: explain, support or qualify one point. Move a useful second topic to its own paragraph. Cut a detail when it serves neither the paragraph nor the wider task.

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A visitor discusses activities at a community centre.
Choosing an activity gives context to le programme du centre. Illustration: Atelier

Your paragraph’s job: explain why the programme should appear earlier

Le centre devrait publier son programme plus tôt. Les inscriptions ouvrent parfois avant que les horaires soient connus. Le bâtiment possède aussi une cour agréable. Les participants ont alors du mal à choisir une activité. Certains horaires dépendent toutefois de la confirmation des partenaires.

The centre should publish its programme earlier. Registration sometimes opens before the times are known. The building also has a pleasant courtyard. Participants then find it difficult to choose an activity. Some times, however, depend on confirmation from partners.

The wider task is to suggest practical improvements to the centre. This paragraph focuses on programme timing. Another paragraph could discuss outdoor activities. Use those two levels, the paragraph and the whole response, when you decide what to keep or move.

  1. Question 1No account needed
    Which sentence introduces a separate topic?

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    Le bâtiment possède aussi une cour agréable.. The courtyard introduces the centre’s physical space. The other sentences develop the timing problem.

  2. Question 2No account needed
    What does the sentence about partner confirmation contribute?

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    A relevant limit on how early every time can be published.. Partner confirmation affects the timing proposal itself. It qualifies the same point rather than opening a new topic.

  3. Question 3No account needed
    Choose the strongest replacement for the vague benefit Ce serait mieux.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    Les participants pourraient vérifier les horaires avant de s’inscrire.. The first option names a benefit tied directly to programme timing: checking hours before registering.

  4. Question 4No account needed
    You want to keep the courtyard idea in the wider response. Which new paragraph develops it?

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    La cour pourrait accueillir un atelier en plein air. Il faudrait prévoir une solution de repli en cas de pluie.. The outdoor-workshop proposal gives the courtyard a job of its own. The rain contingency develops that same proposal.

  5. Question 5No account needed
    Would adding par ailleurs before the courtyard sentence make it part of the timing argument?

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    It would mark addition, but the courtyard would still need a link to timing.. Par ailleurs signals another point. It does not supply a missing relationship between a pleasant space and publication dates.

  6. Question 6No account needed
    Choose a useful qualification that stays with early publication.

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    Le centre pourrait annoncer les horaires confirmés et préciser ceux qui restent à fixer.. Confirmed versus pending hours offers a practical response to the partner-confirmation limit.

  7. Question 7No account needed
    Which pair forms one coherent paragraph?

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    Les inscriptions ouvrent avant l’annonce des horaires. Les participants ne peuvent donc pas organiser leur semaine avant de s’inscrire.. The second sentence explains the practical consequence of the first. The other pairs leave their connection unstated.

  8. Question 8No account needed
    The final task asks only for information about registration dates. What should you do with the pleasant-courtyard detail?

    Choose one answer.

    Answer and explanation

    Cut it from that response.. For a narrowly defined dates enquiry, the courtyard detail serves neither the paragraph nor the task.

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