711 pages
Everything written for B1 learners (expressing your ideas), with explanations, practice and reading at the right level.
Pronunciation & listeningArticleB1
Compare French at a desk and on the phone. Practise clear document references, a repeat after the line cuts out and a final check of an appointment.
Words & expressionsDialogueB1
Words & expressionsGap-fillB1
Grammar & usagePhrasebookB1
Pronunciation & listeningVerb drillB1
Practise French repairs with pardon, non, plutôt and je veux dire. Keep the final detail while preserving the rest of the message in an eight-item drill.
Pronunciation & listeningCheat sheetB1
A compact pronunciation sheet for vingt, vingt ans, twenty-one to twenty-nine and quatre-vingts, with five checks on the consonants you say.
Everyday FrenchQuizB1
Read a French electricity bill: consommation estimée, relevé réel, abonnement, kWh, TTC, prélèvement. Twelve questions on a sample bill.
Pronunciation & listeningReadingB1
Read a short French bulletin, separate its two stories and track council plans, residents’ concerns and confirmed events. B1 practice with a quiz.
Everyday FrenchPractical guideB1
Compare a direct train with a coach-and-bus route in French. Read the options, ask about the missing connection and explain your choice.
Words & expressionsCommon mistakesB1
Describe a friendly colleague, a compassionate look or an understanding manager. Correct the sympathetic/sympathique trap with scenes and a short quiz.
DELF, DALF & examsExam practiceB1
Read an objection to an exhibition plan, then write a revised proposal. Keep the corridor clear and respect the room’s after-show availability.
Reading & writingGraded storyB1
Read a French shopkeeper’s holiday story with eight glosses and translation. Identify her worries, preparations and what happens while she is away.
Verbs & tensesConjugation tableB1
Learn the impersonal forms of falloir across six tenses and moods. Compare il faut partir with il faut que tu partes, then test faut, fallu and faille.
Culture & registerWord scaleB1
Compare five French recommendation sentences, track words such as vivement and incontournable and preserve the audience or criterion limiting each claim.
Culture & registerMatching gameB1
Match twelve French acronyms you'll hear daily, from the SNCF and the RER to the SMIC, the CAF and the TVA, and learn how each one is pronounced.
Culture & registerTimelineB1
Poet, novelist, politician, exile: Victor Hugo's life from Besançon to the Panthéon, with Notre-Dame de Paris and Les Misérables along the way.
Reading & writingReal documentB1
A Météo-France-style weather alert: vigilance levels, wind gusts, heavy rain and advice. Understand what's coming and what you should do.
Words & expressionsVocabulary listB1
Compare tissu and étoffe, learn fabric and texture phrases, and recognise the paper-tissue trap. Pictures, a fabric-shop scene and four questions.
Culture & registerText conversationB1
Accept or decline a French wedding invitation by message: who's coming, dietary needs and kind words for the couple. Choose the right replies.
Grammar & usageSorting gameB1
Before an infinitive, some French verbs take à, some take de and some nothing. Sort sixteen common verbs into the right box, then use them in sentences.
Verbs & tensesSentence builderB1
Il m'a dit qu'il viendrait, elle m'a demandé si j'avais faim: tap the tiles to report what people said, with que, si, ce que and the tense shift.
Words & expressionsFlashcardsB1
Learn 20 core wine-service objects and four extra accessories in French. Match bottles, opening tools and glassware to short service instructions.
Words & expressionsPicture sceneB1
Explore twelve French stage and backstage terms. Locate lights, props, costume storage and working areas from a stage manager’s rehearsal requests.
Verbs & tensesSpot the mistakeB1
Quand j'ai été petit? Le téléphone sonnait soudain? Tap the verb in the wrong past tense in eight sentences and learn background versus event.
Grammar & usageMyth or factB1
Is the subjunctive only for books? Do adjectives always go after the noun? Is on just 'one'? Judge eight grammar beliefs and see what natives really do.
Grammar & usageOdd one outB1
Mais, pourtant, cependant… donc? Find the connector with a different job in eight rows: contrast, cause, consequence, time, explanation and summary.
Reading & writingWriting practiceB1
Write a clear informal email in French: accept an invitation, make an offer and add a useful detail, with an annotated model.
Words & expressionsArticleB1
Compare précis and détaillé through a meeting time, two reports and adjective agreements. Practise choosing the quality each French sentence describes.
Words & expressionsVerb drillB1
Compare inclure and intégrer in training, documents and teams. Study the present forms, then practise the endings and the different sentence patterns.
Words & expressionsCheat sheetB1
Use une dizaine, une vingtaine and une centaine with de, compare estimates with exact totals and practise six short transformations plus a three-question quiz.
Everyday FrenchDialogueB1
Ask for leave in French while a deadline is approaching. Practise explaining your dates, arranging cover and checking whether the request is approved.
DELF, DALF & examsGap-fillB1
Complete eight conditional verbs in a French opinion about a hybrid evening class. Separate joining online from taking part, then practise a spoken follow-up.
Everyday FrenchPhrasebookB1
Use calm French phrases to describe music you can hear, ask for lower volume and respond to a neighbour. Includes practical replies and picture cards.
Words & expressionsQuizB1
Translate eight short messages into French. Check hope, expectation, learning, teaching and reporting, with explanations for every answer.
DELF, DALF & examsReadingB1
Read a B1 French passage on small street improvements. Separate the claim, examples and final limit, learn the pictured vocabulary and choose a faithful summary.
Verbs & tensesPractical guideB1
Check French compound verbs through worked contrasts: avoir or être, present or imparfait auxiliary, subject endings and participle agreement.
