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How should I go about making my personal statement stand out from the piles of med school applications?

Many students become fixated on making their statement different and unique, often to the extent that they run the risk of seeming disingenuous or detracting from the core messages they wish to convey. This ...
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Use the new vocabulary studied in class to write a small presentation of yourself (example of a topic) .

First of all the tutor should make sure that the student has a full understanding of all the vocabulary studied in class. This also implies being able to write the words down without looking at them. Followi...
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The student has to present a current debate concerning a specific social/political/economical problem in France (eg. immigration; internal political structure, ...)

This kind of questions is a way to stimulate the student's interest in the culture of a nation. As I tend to repeat, studying a language is not only a matter of learning a new vocabulary, it also implies to ...
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Answered by Clementina T. • French tutor
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How do you know when to use the perfect tense or the imperfect tense?

Both the imperfect and the perfect tense are used to talk about something that happened in the past. However, the imperfect tense tends to refer to things that happened over a period of time in the past. For...
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Answered by Abigail Q. • French tutor
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Which verbs take être in compound tenses?

At school, I was taught MRS VANDERTRAMP, like most GCSE classes. However, whilst on work experience in France, my host family taught me an extremely catchy song (that I sing to this day!), which I find much ...
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Answered by Alexandra M. • French tutor
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