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French at B2
Everything written for B2 learners (discussing in depth), with explanations, practice and reading at the right level.
Culture & registerQuizB2
French collocation quiz: natural adjective and noun combinations
Choose twelve established French adjective–noun pairings for formal writing, from une étroite collaboration to une preuve irréfutable.
Reading & writingCheat sheetB2
Selon, d’après, aux dires de, de source sûre: French source markers
Compare four French source markers, see how attribution differs from a reliability claim, and choose wording for reports, testimony and inference.
Grammar & usageVerb drillB2
De peur que and de crainte que: subjunctive practice
Explain a precaution with de peur que or de crainte que. Practise eight verb forms, compare the infinitive and decode optional ne with a quiz.
Verbs & tensesArticleB2
Fatiguant or fatigant? French participles and verbal adjectives
Compare fatiguant les élèves with des journées fatigantes. Check agreement, four spelling pairs and a short editorial scene before a five-question quiz.
Verbs & tensesVerb drillB2
Aura fini → aurait fini: French reported future-perfect drill
Preserve a completion deadline in past reported speech. Practise conditional auxiliaries, être agreement and eight future-perfect transformations.
Grammar & usageArticleB2
French nominalisation: turn an action into a noun phrase
Turn les prix augmentent into l’augmentation des prix. Compare full sentence rewrites, keep time and certainty clear, and try three short questions.
Grammar & usageVerb drillB2
Ce qui… c’est: eight ways to put the main point last
Build French focus sentences with ce qui… c’est and ce que… c’est. Compare plain and focused wording, then rewrite eight first halves with guided gaps.
Grammar & usageArticleB2
Pour autant: "that doesn't mean…" in French
Pour autant means "for all that", "that doesn't mean": Il est riche ; il n'est pas heureux pour autant. Learn its meaning, position and register with examples.
Grammar & usageVerb drillB2
À force de: turn repeated actions into a result
Practise à force de with an infinitive or a noun, compare it with pour, and build sentences about persistence and unwanted results.
Culture & registerArticleB2
Résider or habiter: saying where you live, and where the problem lies
Compare résider and habiter in home descriptions. See useful place prepositions, temporary stays and le problème réside dans, with a short quiz.
Verbs & tensesVerb drillB2
French historical present: retell a past scene in the present
Retell yesterday’s events with present verbs. A study table, ten transformations and a timeline check practise the French présent de narration.
Grammar & usageArticleB2
Faire + infinitive: have something done in French
Say who arranges a repair, who carries it out and what is repaired. Compare faire + infinitive with doing the job yourself, then try four questions.
Grammar & usageVerb drillB2
La plupart and un grand nombre: French agreement drill
Complete survey summaries with plural verbs and adjective endings after la plupart and un grand nombre, keeping the people or responses in view.
Grammar & usageArticleB2
Ne serait-ce que: "if only", "even just" in French
Ne serait-ce que means even if only, even just: ne serait-ce que cinq minutes. It looks negative but isn't. Learn its meaning, register and use with examples.
Grammar & usageVerb drillB2
French subjunctive after le seul, le premier and superlatives: a drill
Practise evaluative relative clauses after le seul, le premier and le meilleur. Contrast a judgement or search criterion with an established fact.
Verbs & tensesVerb drillB2
French future perfect drill: finish one action before the next begins
Use the futur antérieur to connect deadlines and later actions. Practise avoir, être, agreement and future time clauses in twelve schedule transformations.
Grammar & usageVerb drillB2
C’est…qui or c’est…que? Check the role and practise the rewrite
Rebuild the plain statement behind a French cleft, keep its prepositions and practise eight focused sentences with correct subject agreement.
Reading & writingVerb drillB2
French synthesis drill: replace lists with accurate category nouns
Condense eight lists into shared categories such as emballages à usage unique. Keep the material, function or access feature that matters to the source.
Grammar & usageVerb drillB2
Non pas… mais: practise correcting one detail in French
Correct a number, a time, a purpose or an intention with non pas… mais. Study parallel examples, then complete eight focused French corrections.
Grammar & usageVerb drillB2
Sauf à, à moins de, sous réserve de: French restriction drill
Rewrite nine conditions with sauf à, à moins de and sous réserve de. Distinguish an exception, a necessary way out and a pending reservation.
DELF, DALF & examsVerb drillB2
B2 French recommendation drill: compare two project options
Compare two archive projects against a €200 ceiling and a two-neighbourhood goal, then practise eight precise French recommendation phrases.
Grammar & usageVerb drillB2
Sans que + subjunctive: say who did not take part
Practise sans que with a named subject and the subjunctive. Compare sans partir, sans que tu partes and a completed action with ait reçu.
Grammar & usageVerb drillB2
Causative faire pronoun drill: je la fais réparer, je le lui fais lire
Replace objects and people in faire + infinitive sentences. Practise la, les, lui and leur, pronoun order, compound tenses and invariable fait.
