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After those strenuous walks, you’ll be ready to talk about food again, this time, ingredients, recipes and cooking instructions, with chefs from les bouchons, the small traditional restaurants in Lyons. And if on your walks you found mushrooms, then in France, you’ll see that you can take them to la pharmacie, the chemist’s, where the pharmacist is trained to identify the poisonous ones.

• Unit 14, Cooking, shows the chefs presenting their favourite dishes, les plats, and sharing their culinary secrets. If you follow the instructions carefully you’ll learn how to make a number of regional specialities. Il faut faire quoi en premier ? What do we do first ? Il faut compter combien de temps ? How long does it take?

• Unit 15, Chemist’s, features Bénédicte, a pharmacist in the city centre. You’ll practise the phrases needed to explain your symptoms, such as J’ai mal à l’oreille, I have earache, or Vous avez quelque chose pour la gorge ? Do you have something for the throat? You can also listen out for advice the pharmacist might give you, with expressions such as une goutte, trois fois par jour, one drop, three times a day.
  

• Get the learning tips for both units "Cooking" and "Chemist's"

• Next week we'll be back with more tips. We hope you'll find Ma France useful and entertaining.

  N’oubliez pas les champignons !

  BBC Languages Team