French movement practice: direction, route and destination

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Describe walking, crossing and turning in French. Explore a park route, compare vers with jusqu’à and complete eight present-tense movement sentences.

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Give the person, movement and place: Lina traverse le pont. Vers gives a direction; jusqu’à gives the limit of a route. In Lina marche vers la sortie, she is heading towards the exit; Lina arrive à la sortie says she reaches it.

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A woman crosses a small bridge in a park. — Lina traverse le pont on her park walk. Illustration: Atelier

Follow Lina through the park

A small park seen from above at a gentle angle. At the bottom is an open iron entrance gate. A path leads straight to a round fountain at the centre. Immediatel

Study first: each phrase has a job

Job	French example	Meaning
Setting	Elle marche dans le parc.	She walks in the park.
Direction	Elle marche vers le pont.	She walks towards the bridge.
Route	Elle marche le long du ruisseau.	She walks along the stream.
Limit	Elle marche jusqu’au pont.	She walks as far as the bridge.
Arrival	Elle arrive au pont.	She reaches the bridge.

Use the present for this practice. With regular -er verbs, elle takes -e, nous takes -ons and vous takes -ez. Watch nous avançons: the cedilla keeps the soft sound before o. For crossing, traverser takes the thing crossed directly: traverser le pont.

1 · Complete the movement in the present

Lina dans le parc. (entrer)
Elle vers la fontaine. (marcher)
Nous jusqu’au banc. (avancer)
Vous à gauche après la fontaine. (tourner)
Lina le pont. (traverser)
Elle l’escalier. (monter)
Nous au kiosque. (arriver)
Vous tout droit. (continuer)

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