Pronunciation & listeningCheat sheetC1
Annotate a French headline for reading: don't stress every word
Annotate six French headline structures for reading aloud by keeping meaning groups intact and highlighting the real contrast.
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French at C1
Everything written for C1 learners (nuance and style), with explanations, practice and reading at the right level.
Culture & registerQuizC1
French presupposition quiz: what stays true under negation?
DELF, DALF & examsExam practiceC1
A French appeal to emotion that still gives the audience a reason
Reading & writingVerb drillC1
Make dense French sentences clearer: eight editing drills
Reading & writingArticleC1
French analytical reports: separate findings, interpretation and advice
Build a clear French analytical report from one observation. Compare constat, interprétation and recommandation, then revise overstatements in a short quiz.
Grammar & usageReadingC1
Literary ne without pas: read je ne puis and je n’ose
Read a short French letter with negative ne alone, compare modern paraphrases, and distinguish real negation from expletive ne.
Grammar & usagePractical guideC1
French nominalisation: rewrite the sentence and keep the facts
Turn French actions into nouns while preserving the actor, time, possibility and negative meaning. Work through a proposal, then test three rewrites.
Culture & registerCommon mistakesC1
Sanctionner in French: punish, approve or formally recognise?
Use the object and institutional context to interpret sanctionner: punishment, formal assent or recognition. Compare six extracts and repair misleading readings.
Reading & writingReal documentC1
A French risk register: owner, trigger, response and remaining risk
Read a French risk register, distinguishing a possible event from an incident, the monitoring role from approval authority, and residual risk from closure.
Verbs & tensesGraded storyC1
Track time in a French literary passage: events, background and flashback
Read a meeting scene with four past tenses. Map the previous day, overlapping background and the return to the main sequence, then test the timeline.
Reading & writingGap-fillC1
End a French synthesis with agreement, a condition and a limit
Write a neutral French synthesis ending. Compare three possible conclusions, then complete a closing paragraph that keeps a booking condition and an evidence gap.
Culture & registerPhrasebookC1
Accordons-le: concede a point in French without conceding the conclusion
Use accordons-le in four French debate scenes, granting a precise fact, criterion or inference without silently accepting a broader conclusion.
Culture & registerMyth or factC1
A French news conditional can report good news too
Test whether French news conditional depends on a report’s source status rather than good or bad news, using six contextual claims.
Everyday FrenchDialogueC1
Question a proposal’s premise in French: a meeting dialogue
Practise a C1 French meeting dialogue that separates an observed need from a proposed solution, asks for evidence and agrees on a fair comparison.
Grammar & usageSentence builderC1
A French sentence nested three clauses deep: find each finite verb
Build nested French sentences while recovering every finite verb and pronoun antecedent. Use a parsing diagram before working through completive and relative clauses.
Reading & writingOdd one outC1
A French philosophical question can hide two different questions
Identify descriptive, normative and conceptual French questions in six odd-one-out rows. Explain exactly how one question changes the inquiry.
DELF, DALF & examsTimelineC1
A French refutation with a real concession: rebuild the four moves
Rebuild a French refutation in four logically dependent moves, keeping the accepted premise visible while challenging a separate inference.
Culture & registerMatching gameC1
An apostrophe in a French speech is not just a punctuation mark
Recognise rhetorical apostrophe in French: a speaker turns towards an absent person, object or idea. Distinguish the device from punctuation and ordinary address.
Grammar & usageCheat sheetC1
Pour peu que: when a little is enough in French
Use pour peu que with the subjunctive to say that a small condition is enough. Compare three condition patterns, then test the meaning and forms.
Everyday FrenchArticleC1
Professional commitments in French: scope, deadlines and dependencies
Distinguish a firm commitment, a conditional deadline and an estimate in French. Compare precise meeting replies and practise preserving their scope.
Reading & writingReadingC1
French synthesis: state where sources agree, then keep the differences
Read two French proposals about volunteer support. Identify the shared recommendation, preserve the different reasons and write a precise convergence paragraph.
Grammar & usageQuizC1
À supposer que or en admettant que? A French assumptions quiz
Ten questions on French assumptions: choose subjunctive forms, distinguish an imagined premise from a fact and read a concession accurately.
DELF, DALF & examsExam practiceC1
C1 French writing: respond to a shared sports-ground request
Write to a sports team and local residents about a shared ground. Represent both uses, clarify the timetable and propose the next stage of discussion.
Grammar & usageVerb drillC1
Sans doute a-t-elle oublié: French statement inversion
Turn ordinary sentences into formal statements with sans doute. Practise subject pronouns, auxiliaries, hyphens and negative word order.
Reading & writingPractical guideC1
Plan a French synthesis from three source notes
Turn three French source notes into a thematic plan. Compare current arrangements, requested changes and a response that is still being considered.
Reading & writingCommon mistakesC1
Clear formal French: six wording traps and precise rewrites
Replace heavy French wording with precise formal sentences. Six before-and-after examples show how to keep the actor, action, exceptions and commitment.
DELF, DALF & examsReal documentC1
A French exam answer that is accurate but does not answer the question
Practise answering the exact focus of a French reading question. Compare factually accurate responses with the explanation or evidence the prompt requests.
Reading & writingGraded storyC1
A French narrator can be mistaken: read the evidence against the voice
Read a French first-person story whose confident memory meets a dated letter, separating a mistaken inference from proof of deliberate lying.
DELF, DALF & examsGap-fillC1
C1 French cloze: from scanned archive to searchable collection
Complete an archive progress note with eight linking expressions. Read the source notes first, then distinguish scanning, description and checked dates.
Reading & writingPhrasebookC1
French meeting minutes: phrases for proposals, decisions and actions
Write neutral French minutes with precise phrases for proposed, decided and pending actions. Work from meeting notes and check who is doing what.
DELF, DALF & examsMyth or factC1
A French study summary: no difference found is not proof of equality
Interpret French no-difference findings without turning them into proof of equality, using clear study notes and six verdict questions.
Reading & writingDialogueC1
Paraphrase a French sentence: change the shape, keep the meaning
Practise faithful French paraphrase in an editing dialogue. Move a condition, change a noun into a verb and preserve permission, action and scope.
Everyday FrenchCheat sheetC1
“That is not my position”: correct a French discussion summary
Correct a misleading summary in French: separate support from reservations, keep a condition and ask for accurate meeting minutes. C1 examples and quiz.
Grammar & usageArticleC1
Si tant est que: "assuming that", with doubt
Si tant est que means "assuming that" or "if indeed", while doubting it: il viendra, si tant est qu'il soit invité. Learn its meaning, subjunctive and register.
DELF, DALF & examsReadingC1
A C1 French report on inequality: distinguish average and distribution
Read a C1 French report on an uneven rise in participation, separating the average from group distribution and possible causes from established findings.
Verbs & tensesQuizC1
French literary tense quiz: 12 questions on forms and meaning
Test passé simple, passé antérieur and literary subjunctives in twelve questions. Distinguish whole verb groups, passive voice and narrative time.
