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French at B2
Everything written for B2 learners (discussing in depth), with explanations, practice and reading at the right level.
Everyday FrenchDialogueB2
French supplier dialogue: negotiate a partial delivery after a delay
Negotiate a delayed furniture order in B2 French: prioritise quantities, propose two deliveries and confirm times, costs and the remaining balance.
Reading & writingTimelineB2
A French permission dispute: agreement before recording before publication
Order a French permission dispute from agreement through recording to publication, then compare the later use with the original limits.
DELF, DALF & examsExam practiceB2
DELF B2 writing: respond to a holiday-let proposal
Write a B2 housing consultation response about holiday lets. Balance residents, visitors and hosts, then compare your argument with a complete model.
Verbs & tensesPractical guideB2
French past-participle agreement: sentence pairs and practice
See why écrit becomes écrites, lavée becomes lavé and entendues becomes entendu. Compare sentence pairs, then check the endings yourself.
Culture & registerPhrasebookB2
French phrases for moderating a heated discussion
Restore turn-taking in French, summarise opposing positions and stop personal attacks. Four scenes, 24 translated lines and a quiz for meeting moderators.
Verbs & tensesConjugation tableB2
Admettre conjugation: admets, admettons and admis
Conjugate admettre in seven tenses and moods, then distinguish acknowledging a fact, accepting a hypothesis and admitting visitors.
Culture & registerText conversationB2
Ask for the original French source behind a forwarded summary
Ask for a French source behind a forwarded summary: request title, link, date and passage politely, then practise replies in a professional thread.
Verbs & tensesVerb drillB2
French past subjunctive: forms and eight sentence drills
Build the French past subjunctive with avoir or être, compare completed and ongoing actions, and practise agreement and negatives in eight sentences.
Grammar & usageArticleB2
Passive, on or a named subject? Choose what the reader needs
Compare three French versions of the same event, keep a known actor visible, and practise passive agreement without changing who did what.
Grammar & usageReadingB2
Follow French pronouns through a paragraph: who does what?
Read a short French handover, trace la, lui, celui and cela, then untangle an ambiguous elle. Includes a reference map and five reading questions.
Everyday FrenchQuizB2
French meeting actions: who does what, and by when?
Read a short French meeting, then answer eight questions on task owners, dependencies, deadlines and the difference between preparation and approval.
Everyday FrenchCheat sheetB2
Closing a French meeting: decisions, actions and open questions
Use a French meeting closing sheet to name decisions, assign actions and keep pending questions clear. Includes a model recap and three checks.
Grammar & usageGap-fillB2
Faute de: explain what was missing, then complete the report
Faute de means for lack of. Compare noun and infinitive patterns, distinguish a past cause from a future deadline, and complete a six-gap project report.
Grammar & usageCommon mistakesB2
À moins que: four mistakes with “unless” and optional ne
Keep the meaning of unless clear, use the subjunctive after à moins que and distinguish formal ne from a real negative with pas.
Grammar & usageDialogueB2
Pourvu que: “provided that” or “I hope”?
Read a planning dialogue to hear both meanings of pourvu que. Practise conditions, hopeful wishes and negative wishes with the subjunctive.
Reading & writingTimelineB2
A French project handover: approval before transfer before closure
Reconstruct a French project handover from dated notes, separating planned approval from confirmed approval before transfer and closure.
DELF, DALF & examsExam practiceB2
B2 French writing: correct a public summary
Compare a meeting note with an inaccurate recap, then write a public correction that preserves the room agreement and restores the pending decisions.
Verbs & tensesPractical guideB2
Build a French literary verb notebook: six entries to copy
Make useful notes for vit, vint, fit, fut and other literary forms. Copy a worked entry, compare confusing pairs and test recall with a short quiz.
Everyday FrenchPhrasebookB2
Disagree with a work proposal in French: reasons and alternatives
Useful French meeting phrases for acknowledging a goal, explaining a specific objection and offering an alternative, with a short check.
Grammar & usageVerb drillB2
C’est moi qui ai: practise French pronoun agreement
Practise moi qui ai, toi qui as and nous qui avons. A reference table and two drills separate the stressed pronoun from the verb agreement.
Culture & registerArticleB2
Ultérieur or plus tard: later dates, actions and formal French
Use ultérieur with a noun, plus tard with an action and ultérieurement in careful writing. Compare agreement, later reference points and English ulterior.
Verbs & tensesReadingB2
Why French news uses the conditional: read a report and its update
Read serait, aurait lieu and aurait demandé in a short French report. Compare unconfirmed information with a later announcement and answer four questions.
Verbs & tensesQuizB2
French infinitives, gérondifs and participles: 10 mixed questions
Test infinitives, gérondifs, participle agreement and earlier actions in ten French sentences, with an explanation for every answer.
Culture & registerCheat sheetB2
French rules: obligatoire, facultatif, autorisé or recommandé?
Read French institutional rules by force: required, optional, permitted or recommended. Compare constructions and classify short notices.
Reading & writingGap-fillB2
French B2 gap-fill: connectors in a workplace proposal
Fill 12 cohesive and evaluative expressions as an apprentice proposes a workshop change. Follow an objection, a trial and a measured conclusion, with translation.
Grammar & usageCommon mistakesB2
Ce à quoi or ce que? French corrections with penser à and tenir à
See why ce à quoi keeps the à in penser à, répondre à and tenir à. Compare what you think with what you think about, then test the distinction.
DELF, DALF & examsDialogueB2
French counterarguments: answer the concern and improve the proposal
Rehearse a French discussion about evening workshops, acknowledge an access concern and revise the proposal with a relevant response.
Reading & writingTimelineB2
A French climate plan: announced deadline, revised deadline, achieved result
Reconstruct a French climate plan’s original deadline, revised deadline and achieved result from dated excerpts. Practise a summary that preserves delay.
DELF, DALF & examsExam practiceB2
TCF writing task 3: compare arguments for a four-day week
Compare two French documents on a four-day working week. Separate days from hours, then write a qualified view with a two-part model and source checks.
Verbs & tensesPractical guideB2
French reported speech: check the day, viewpoint and deadline
Follow a Monday message into a Wednesday report. Check earlier actions, future-in-the-past promises, deadlines and time words with four questions.
DELF, DALF & examsPhrasebookB2
French register feedback: make the same request for two readers
Change a friendly French request into a courteous email. Practise greetings, tu and vous, deadlines and closings while keeping the request intact.
Grammar & usageVerb drillB2
De façon à and de manière à: practise “so as to”
Use de façon à and de manière à with an infinitive to express an aim. Arrange a room, compare pour que and practise eight purpose phrases.
Grammar & usageArticleB2
Se faire + infinitive: get something done or have something happen
Compare a service you arrange with an event you undergo. Practise se faire in present and past forms, and keep fait unchanged before the infinitive.
DELF, DALF & examsReadingB2
B2 French reading: who must act on an open letter?
Read a sculpture group’s open letter, separate its public audience from its decision-maker, and answer five questions about the request.
DELF, DALF & examsQuizB2
French inference quiz: what does the passage actually support?
Eight B2 reading questions on implied conclusions, missing causes and the purpose of examples. Each answer shows the link from French evidence to conclusion.
Grammar & usageCheat sheetB2
Dès lors que: “once” or “given that” in French
A compact guide to dès lors que: a starting condition, an accepted reason and the indicative. Compare dès que and dès lors, then check four examples.
