Chaînes d'arguments : cause et conséquence à l'oreille

Unité CO-21 · campagne 16 · qui cause quoi, et dans quel ordre.

B2 listening questions love one move above all others: pourquoi ? To answer it you must hear the direction of the logical arrow — which clause is the cause, which the consequence — and the connectors carry that arrow. They are short, unstressed, and gone in half a second.

Two habits to train:

1. Faute de means a missing cause. It is because X is absent — not "by mistake" (la faute). Faute de bénévoles = no volunteers, hence the cancellation.
2. Chains, not pairs. Real passages stack the links: no evening bus → citizens build a carpool network → the town hall suspends its own shuttle. The question usually targets the last link (pourquoi la mairie a-t-elle suspendu… ?), and the trap answer offers an earlier link dressed up as the direct cause.

The items walk four such chains — a rural carpool network, a digital- sobriety policy in a local administration, the eusko local currency and its multiplier effect, and the reintroduction of the lynx with foresters and éleveurs pulling in opposite directions. In each, draw the arrow first; choose the answer second.

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