Intermediate
397 self-paced lessons: The subjunctive, the conditional and si-clauses, the plus-que-parfait, relative pronouns, the passive, spoken French, and real situations at the bank, the office and home.
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Short stories · graded reading practice with audio and English
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The Past Tenses Together, Part 1 of 2
Bring the passé composé and the imparfait back side by side: one tells what happened, the other paints the scene around it.
Pattern Practice: Avoir or Être?
Drill the auxiliary choice in the passé composé, participle agreement with être, and the verbs that switch to avoir when they have a direct object.
Circuit: Irregular Past Participles
Rotate the most frequent irregular past participles until they come automatically: fait, pris, mis, dit, ouvert, eu, vu, bu, dû, su, reçu, vécu, né, mort and more.
Talk About You: Tu as déjà...?
Talk about life experiences with "Tu as déjà...?", "jamais" and "pas encore", and place short adverbs correctly in the passé composé.
Minimal Pairs: Je mangeais / J'ai mangé
Hear and produce the tiny sound differences that carry the tense: je mange, j'ai mangé, je mangeais, il a fini, il finissait.
The Past Tenses Together, Part 2 of 2
Say what you have just done with "venir de" and what you're in the middle of doing with "être en train de", in the present and in the past.
Dialogue Lab: Qu'est-ce que tu as fait ce week-end ?
A Monday-morning chat at work: ask about the weekend, tell what happened and what it was like, and react naturally.
Depuis, Il y a, Pendant and Ça fait...que
Talk about time like a French speaker: depuis + present for what is still going on, il y a for ago, pendant for a closed period, and ça fait...que.
Contrast Clinic: Depuis, Il y a or Pendant?
Side-by-side pairs that isolate the choice between depuis, il y a and pendant, plus depuis quand / depuis combien de temps and the negative with depuis.
Error Hunt: Past-Tense Slips
Find and fix the past-tense mistakes English speakers make most: wrong auxiliary, missing agreement, depuis with a past tense, the wrong tense for an event, and "je suis juste arrivé".
Fix the Paragraph: A Holiday Email
Correct a holiday email full of wrong auxiliaries, missing agreements and mixed-up tenses, then rewrite it sentence by sentence.
Quick Round: Déjà / Pas encore
Answer "Tu as déjà...?" questions fast with "oui, déjà" or "pas encore", using an object pronoun before the auxiliary and making the participle agree.
Fill the Story: Quelle journée !
A disastrous day told in gaps: choose between the passé composé, the imparfait, venir de and être en train de, using time markers as clues.
Transformation Chain: From Present to Past
Retell a present-tense story in the past step by step, deciding for each verb between the passé composé and the imparfait.
Unit 1 review: The Past Tenses Together
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in "The Past Tenses Together", then a short unit quiz.
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