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Sorting games

Drag or tap each word into the right group, then see why it belongs there.

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Grammar & usageSorting gameB1

Commencer à or finir de? Sort verbs by their preposition

Before an infinitive, some French verbs take à, some take de and some nothing. Sort sixteen common verbs into the right box, then use them in sentences.

Verbs & tensesSorting gameA2
Passé composé or imparfait? Sort the signal words
Pronunciation & listeningSorting gameA2
H muet or h aspiré? Sort French words that start with h
Everyday FrenchSorting gameA2
Which bin? Sort household waste the French way

Words & expressionsSorting gameB1

Faire, prendre or passer? Sort French verb collocations

Faire une pause, prendre une décision, passer un examen: sort sixteen everyday collocations by their verb, where English would say make, take or have.

Culture & registerSorting gameA1

Tu or vous? Sort twelve everyday situations

Should you say tu or vous? Sort twelve real situations, from your new colleague to the baker and your friend's grandmother, then read why each one goes where it does.

Grammar & usageSorting gameA1
Le or la? Sort French nouns by their endings
A sorting game for French noun gender: drop each noun into le or la using its ending (-age, -tion, -ment, -ette, -eau). Learn the patterns that work 80% of the time.
Words & expressionsSorting gameA1
Il fait, il y a or il pleut? Sort French weather expressions
Il fait beau, il y a du vent, il neige: French weather uses three patterns. Sort sixteen weather phrases into faire, il y a and weather verbs.
Culture & registerSorting gameC2
A French regional word in a formal text: error, quotation or style?
Classify regional French words in formal texts as ordinary regional usage, quotation, deliberate style or mediated explanation without treating a variety as deficient.
Verbs & tensesSorting gameA2
Finir or partir? Sort -ir verbs by their pattern
Nous finissons but nous partons: sort sixteen -ir verbs into the finir group (-iss-) and the partir group, then conjugate them correctly.
Pronunciation & listeningSorting gameA2
Silent or pronounced final consonant? Sort French words (CaReFuL)
Most final consonants in French are silent, but c, r, f and l are often pronounced. Sort sixteen words by whether you hear the last letter.
Grammar & usageSorting gameA1
Du, de la, de l' or des? Sort foods by their partitive
Du pain, de la confiture, de l'eau, des œufs: sort sixteen foods by the partitive article they take, based on gender, a vowel or the plural.
Words & expressionsSorting gameA1
Which shop? Sort your shopping list by French commerce
Boulangerie, boucherie, fromagerie or pharmacie? Sort sixteen items into the right French shop, then learn the shop and shopkeeper names together.
Culture & registerSorting gameB1
Real French or franglais? Sort words you'll hear in France
Le parking, le footing, le pressing: sort sixteen words into everyday French, franglais that sounds English but means something else, and official French alternatives.
Verbs & tensesSorting gameA2
Which -er verbs change their spelling? Sort manger, appeler, acheter
Nous mangeons, il appelle, j'achète, nous commençons, je paie: sort sixteen -er verbs by the spelling change they need in the present tense.
Grammar & usageSorting gameA2
Plural in French, singular in English: sort the tricky nouns
Les vacances, les cheveux, les toilettes are plural in French; un pantalon, un jean are singular where English says trousers and jeans. Sort sixteen tricky nouns.
Words & expressionsSorting gameA1
How do you feel? Sort French feelings into good, bad and neutral
Content, triste, stressé, calme, fâché, fier, ennuyé: sort sixteen French feeling words, then use them with je suis, je me sens and j'ai.
Culture & registerSorting gameB1
Spoken or written French? Sort everyday words by register
Ouais, genre, du coup, bref vs néanmoins, toutefois, par conséquent, en outre: sort sixteen French words into speech and formal writing.
Grammar & usageSorting gameB1
Adjective + à or de? Sort facile à, content de and more
Facile à comprendre, content de te voir, prêt à partir, fier de toi: sort sixteen French adjectives by the preposition that follows them.
Words & expressionsSorting gameA1
Past, present or future? Sort French time expressions
Hier, en ce moment, demain, la semaine dernière, l'année prochaine: sort sixteen French time expressions by whether they point to the past, present or future.
Culture & registerSorting gameA2
La bise or a handshake? Sort French greeting situations
Kiss on the cheek, handshake or just bonjour? Sort twelve situations the way most French people would, then learn the unwritten rules of la bise.
Grammar & usageSorting gameB1
C'est or il est? Sort sixteen sentences
C'est un médecin but il est médecin; c'est facile but il est facile de…: sort sixteen sentences by whether they need c'est or il / elle est.
Grammar & usageSorting gameB1
Subjunctive or indicative? Sort expressions before que
Il faut que, je pense que, bien que, parce que: sort sixteen French expressions into those that take the subjunctive and those that take the indicative.
Grammar & usageSorting gameA2
Before or after the noun? Sort French adjectives (BAGS)
Most French adjectives follow the noun, but beauty, age, goodness and size come first. Sort sixteen adjectives into before or after, then see the ones that change meaning.