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The Bookshop in the Rue BasseStory 07 · La soirée de lecture

The Reading Evening

One Friday in March the bookshop has to prove in a single evening that a café could work there: borrowed ovens, forty bowls, seventy people expected and a trailer that loses a wheel on the way down. Garnier comes in late and eats at the back without saying a word.

Level B1, 3 chapters. Read the chapter in the book first, then listen — or listen first and read along.

Grammar · Reported speech after a present verb (Claire dit que…, elle demande si…) and two object pronouns together

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