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Gap-fill exercises

Short texts with gaps to fill, checked as you go.

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Grammar & usageGap-fillB2
French passive infinitives: what must be read, sent or revised
Complete a short editorial checklist with être plus a participle. Practise agreement and distinguish a requirement from a completed action.
Words & expressionsGap-fillB2
À hauteur de: read the amount or share of French funding
Complete French funding statements with à hauteur de. Read a stated amount or contribution share and distinguish it from an explicitly marked ceiling.
Verbs & tensesGap-fillA2
French A2 gap-fill: a usual commute and one day by bike
Choose imparfait or passé composé in twelve gaps about a colleague cycling to work. Contrast a usual routine, background details and one completed journey.
Grammar & usageGap-fillA2
French A2 gap-fill: le, les and en at a food festival
Choose object pronouns and quantity words in twelve gaps at a food festival. Volunteers serve the final meals after the last disposable plates are used.
Words & expressionsGap-fillA2
Économiser or réduire? Complete a French story about saving resources
Fill eight gaps with économiser or réduire in a short workplace story. Compare saving money and paper with reducing spending, quantities and text length.
Verbs & tensesGap-fillB1
Si j’avais su: fill in a different past in French
Complete a missed-meeting story with si + plus-que-parfait and the past conditional. Practise both auxiliaries, negatives and feminine agreement.
Grammar & usageGap-fillB1
French B1 gap-fill: quantifiers in a café customer survey
Fill 12 quantifier and agreement gaps in a twenty-person café survey. Check what the numbers support, with food picture cards and an English translation.
Words & expressionsGap-fillA2
Fatigué or fatigant? Fill the gaps in a tiring day
Tired or tiring? Compare fatigué and fatigant, study all eight adjective forms, then complete a short French story with meaning and agreement clues.
Verbs & tensesGap-fillB1
Déjà, jamais or pas encore? A plus-que-parfait gap-fill
Follow Léa’s first night-train journey. Choose already, never, not yet and again in an eight-gap story, with a reference table and translation.
Grammar & usageGap-fillA2
Pendant que in French: a kitchen story with gaps
Practise pendant que for overlapping actions in a short kitchen story. Compare pendant plus a noun, see four picture cards and complete eight gaps.
Words & expressionsGap-fillA2
Partir or quitter? Complete a French departure story
Practise partir de, partir pour and quitter with a direct object. Follow a departure from the office to the station, with a gap-fill and translations.
Verbs & tensesGap-fillB1
French B1 gap-fill: conditional or past conditional?
Fill 12 conditional forms as Ana compares a possible training course with a missed place last year. Includes tense contrasts, agreement and translation.
Grammar & usageGap-fillA2
French articles gap fill: a crêpe recipe with 12 gaps
Complete a French crêpe recipe with du, de la, des, de and le. Practise quantities, ingredients and known items, with hints and an English translation.
Words & expressionsGap-fillA2
Matin or matinée? Fill the gaps in a French morning
Choose ce matin, tous les matins and toute la matinée in a short French story. Compare a morning plan, a daily habit and a whole morning spent on an activity.
Verbs & tensesGap-fillB1
French B1 gap-fill: infinitive or subjunctive after wishes?
Complete 12 wishes and reactions around an unexpected invitation. Track who acts, choose an infinitive or subjunctive, then read the translation.
Grammar & usageGap-fillB2
What follows a French connector? Complete a project update
Practise noun, infinitive and finite-clause complements in a French project update, with sans, faute de, quitte à and à condition que.
Words & expressionsGap-fillA2
Describe a sound in French: loudness, pitch and rhythm
Separate fort from aigu and grave, describe short or repeated sounds, and complete a French sound diary with pictured sources and six vocabulary gaps.
Verbs & tensesGap-fillB1
French subjunctive gap-fill: a flatmate’s note with 12 gaps
Complete a flatmate’s note using the present subjunctive after il faut que, pour que and avant que. Twelve gaps, verb hints and an English translation.
Grammar & usageGap-fillA2
French A2 gap-fill: quantities and en at a refill shop
Practise en, de and measured quantities in a French refill-shop story. Twelve gaps follow jars, rice and lentils from the counter to the kitchen.
Words & expressionsGap-fillA2
Casser or tomber en panne: a French gap-fill about a difficult morning
A cup breaks, a lift stops and a car breaks down. Complete eight gaps to practise casser, cassé and en panne, with pictures, a reference table and translation.
Verbs & tensesGap-fillA2
French futur simple gap-fill: a letter about next summer
Complete 12 futur simple gaps in a summer-holiday letter. Practise regular and irregular stems, then check the English translation and explanations.
Grammar & usageGap-fillB1
French B1 gap-fill: choosing a village noticeboard location
Fill 12 opinion and concession gaps as residents weigh three noticeboard sites. Includes a location comparison, picture cards and an English translation.
Words & expressionsGap-fillB1
Apercevoir or remarquer? A French station story with eight gaps
Catch sight of a traveller, notice a detail and realise a mistake. Compare apercevoir, remarquer and s’apercevoir, then complete a B1 story with eight gaps.
Verbs & tensesGap-fillA2
Past habits in French: complete a childhood memory
Complete a French childhood memory with the imparfait. Compare habitual would, present routines and a completed series of repeated events.
Grammar & usageGap-fillB1
C’est pourquoi in French: give the reason, then the result
Use c’est pourquoi for “that is why”. Compare it with parce que and c’est pour cela que, then complete a short announcement and check the meaning.
Words & expressionsGap-fillB1
Comprendre or se rendre compte: an eight-gap French story
Practise understanding and realising in a short gap-fill story. Check comprendre, se rendre compte de/que and the unchanged past participle rendu.
Verbs & tensesGap-fillA2
French A2 gap-fill: venir de and aller in guest-room preparations
Complete twelve recent-past and near-future forms while preparing a guest room. Separate jobs just finished from the next steps, with translation.
Grammar & usageGap-fillA1
French beginner gap-fill: a new employee's badge
Complete a short A1 story about a first day at work: personal pronouns, the verb être and basic introductions, with instant checking and a translation.
Words & expressionsGap-fillA2
Préparer or organiser? Complete the plan for a French workshop
Get a workshop ready with préparer and organiser. Compare tasks, learn se préparer, then fill eight gaps in a short French planning story.
Verbs & tensesGap-fillB2
Fit, vit and dit: a passé simple gap-fill story
Read and complete a short story with fit, vit, dit, firent, virent and dirent. Includes full verb tables and contrasts with fut, vint and present dit.
Grammar & usageGap-fillA2
French y in context: a place, an idea and an eight-gap story
Follow a morning of errands to practise y for a place or an à complement. Explore six stops, then choose y, en and person forms in an eight-gap text.
Words & expressionsGap-fillA2
Exemple or modèle? A French gap-fill about examples and templates
Use exemple for an illustration and modèle for a pattern to follow. Read two short messages, then complete a six-gap classroom story and three questions.
Verbs & tensesGap-fillB1
En travaillant, tu progresseras: French gérondif conditions
Use en + present participle to link a possible action with a result. Compare si clauses, then complete a short planning text with five gaps.
Grammar & usageGap-fillA2
Relative où in French: the place where, the day when
Use où for places and moments during a flat viewing. Explore six places, compare où with que, then complete a moving-day story.
Words & expressionsGap-fillB1
French thinking verbs: penser, réfléchir and croire in a short story
Follow a team choosing a workshop title. Practise penser à, réfléchir à, croire and sembler in a short French story with gaps and a translation.
Verbs & tensesGap-fillB1
Il a plu, il a fallu, il y a eu: practise impersonal past forms
Complete a rainy-day account with il a plu, il a fallu and il y a eu. Compare the earlier past and keep impersonal il singular.