Culture & registerMatching gameB1
French acronyms everyone uses: SNCF, SMIC, CAF and more
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.
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Pair the French with its meaning and learn the pattern behind each pair.
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Grammar & usageMatching gameA1
French question words: match each question to its answer
Everyday FrenchMatching gameA2
At the French pharmacy: match the symptom to the remedy
Culture & registerMatching gameA2
French onomatopoeia: aïe, miam, chut, boum and more
Words & expressionsMatching gameB1
French verbs and their nouns: match partir to le départ
Partir → le départ, choisir → le choix, réussir → la réussite. Match twelve verbs to their nouns and learn the endings that help you build vocabulary fast.
Reading & writingMatching gameC2
According to whom? Nested attribution in a dense French report
Track nested attribution in French expert prose. Match a claim to its original speaker, its reporter and the narrator’s actual commitment.
Words & expressionsMatching gameA2
French DIY tools: match the tool to the job
Un marteau pour planter un clou, un tournevis pour serrer une vis, une perceuse pour faire un trou: match twelve DIY tools to their jobs in French.
Reading & writingMatching gameB1
A French wellbeing article: advice, warning or personal testimony?
Match French wellbeing sentences to personal testimony, advice, practical warnings and limits, without turning one person’s experience into a universal claim.
Culture & registerMatching gameB1
French body idioms: avoir la tête dans les nuages and more
Coûter les yeux de la tête, casser les pieds, avoir le bras long, mettre les pieds dans le plat: match ten French body idioms to their meanings.
Words & expressionsMatching gameA2
Musical instruments in French: match instrument and musician
Le piano → le pianiste, la guitare → le guitariste, le violon → le violoniste: match twelve instruments to their players and learn jouer du / de la.
Reading & writingMatching gameB1
French letter openings and closings: match the pairs
Madame, Monsieur goes with veuillez agréer; Cher Paul with amitiés; Coucou with bisous. Match eight openings to the closing that fits the same register.
Culture & registerMatching gameA2
French school years: CP, CE1, sixième, terminale and ages
Confused by CP, CM2, sixième and terminale? Match each French school year to its age and UK/US equivalent, and see why French secondary school counts down.
Words & expressionsMatching gameA1
French adjective opposites: match the pairs
Grand / petit, chaud / froid, facile / difficile: match twelve pairs of French adjective opposites, then use them with the right agreement.
Culture & registerMatching gameA2
French regions and their specialities: match the dish to the region
Bouillabaisse, choucroute, crêpes, cassoulet, fondue: match twelve famous French dishes and products to their regions, with a line about each one.
Words & expressionsMatching gameA2
Faire du or jouer au? Match sports to the right verb
Jouer au tennis but faire du vélo: match twelve sports and activities to their French phrases, and learn when French uses jouer à, faire de and pratiquer.
Culture & registerMatching gameB1
French words for "very": match each intensifier to its tone
Très, vachement, super, hyper, trop, extrêmement, fort: match ten French intensifiers to their register and feel, and stop using très for everything.
Words & expressionsMatching gameA1
Household appliances in French: match the machine to the chore
Le lave-linge, le lave-vaisselle, le four, l'aspirateur, le fer à repasser: match ten appliances to the chore they do, and learn the verbs.
Culture & registerMatching gameB1
French weather idioms: il pleut des cordes and more
Il pleut des cordes, un temps de chien, après la pluie le beau temps, être dans le brouillard: match ten weather idioms, literal and figurative.
Words & expressionsMatching gameA1
French shops and shopkeepers: match the trade to the shop
Le fleuriste at the fleuriste, the libraire at the librairie, the cordonnier at the cordonnerie: match twelve French shopkeepers to their shops.
Culture & registerMatching gameB1
French proverbs and their English equivalents: match them up
Petit à petit, l'oiseau fait son nid; qui vivra verra; mieux vaut tard que jamais: match ten French proverbs to the English sayings that mean the same.
Words & expressionsMatching gameB1
Verbs of saying in French: chuchoter, crier, avouer and more
Stop using dire for everything: match ten French verbs of speaking (chuchoter, crier, avouer, affirmer, répondre…) to their meanings, then use them in stories.
Culture & registerMatching gameB1
French inventions: match the invention to the inventor
Braille, pasteurisation, the hot-air balloon, photography, the stethoscope: match ten French inventions to the people behind them, with dates.
Culture & registerMatching gameB2
À cet égard, à ce titre, en ce sens: three French formal links
Match à cet égard, à ce titre and en ce sens to an aspect, a role or an interpretation. Keep each French formal link’s antecedent clear.
Culture & registerMatching gameB1
French colour idioms: rire jaune, voir rouge, être blanc comme un linge
Rire jaune, voir la vie en rose, avoir une peur bleue, être vert de rage: match ten French colour idioms to their meanings and see them in use.
Culture & registerMatching gameB1
Québec French vs France French: match the everyday words
Un char or une voiture? Magasiner or faire du shopping? Match ten everyday words from Québec French to their equivalents in France.
Culture & registerMatching gameB1
French food idioms: match the expression to its meaning
C'est la fin des haricots, raconter des salades, avoir la pêche: match ten French food idioms to their meanings, then see how they're used.
Culture & registerMatching gameB1
French idioms with animals: match them to their meaning
Avoir un chat dans la gorge, poser un lapin, être une poule mouillée: match ten French animal idioms to their English meanings, then see them in context.
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.
Culture & registerMatching gameC2
À l'aune de: name the standard behind a French assessment
Match French assessments to explicit standards with à l’aune de, distinguishing a benchmark from the evidence considered with au regard de.
