Welcome to Bordeaux's Tourist Office

"Bienvenue à l'Office de Tourisme de Bordeaux"
French B2 writing exercise

Bordeaux's Tourist Office introduces us to the city's best touristic attractions

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "a tourist office", "information", "to be worth seeing", "places not to miss", "to be a wine lover/a history lover", "to take [someone] on a journey to discover", "through time and space", "a must-see", "to delight", "both children and adults", "to alternate between", "to splash about", "the Old Town", "a protected sector (heritage)".

Written by Qualified French Expert Aurélie Drouard HKH, Licence d'anglais LLCE
Last updated: 2023-03-17

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How the test works
You’ll practise: Le Futur Simple (Indicatif), Verbes réguliers avec -ER, Article défini

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Welcome to Bordeaux's Tourist Office. Here you'll find information on everything that's worth seeing in our beautiful city. Here are some of the places not to miss. You're a wine lover? Come and visit our famous "Cité du Vin", which will take you on a journey to discover the history of wine through time and space. Another "must-see" which will delight both children and adults: the impressive Water Mirror which alternates extraordinary mirror and fog effects . Children will be able to splash about in it while adults admire the famous Fountain of the Three Graces. Finally, history lovers will appreciate the Old Town, whose limits are within France's largest protected sector.

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