My family's breakfasts

"Les petits déjeuners de ma famille"
French B1 writing exercise

Sébastien tells us about his family's different breakfast routines.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to have (breakfast/food)", "relatively", "a bowl", "a slice of toast", "jam", "savoury (adj.)", "a mug", "dark tea", "scrambled eggs", "a rasher of bacon", "whereas", "freshly-squeezed orange juice", "yogurt", "a croissant/pain au chocolat", "the Norman countryside", "peculiar", "to spread [something] (on bread)", "Camembert (cheese)", "to dip [something] into liquid".

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In my family, everyone has a different breakfast, which can make mornings a bit complicated! Mine is relatively simple: a small bowl of coffee with a few slices of toast and some strawberry jam. My father prefers a savoury breakfast which includes a mug of dark tea, scrambled eggs and a few rashers of bacon, whereas my mother drinks a big glass of freshly-squeezed orange juice, and eats some yogurt with a croissant or a pain au chocolat. But my grandmother, who grew up in the Norman countryside, has a very peculiar habit at breakfast. She likes to spread some Camembert on a piece of bread, which she then dips into her giant bowl of black coffee!

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