Comparing French and English Tenses These practice cards and 2 hours of private video instruction provide an excellent opportunity to review why each tense is chosen for a particular sentence. Translations are included. It can be very interesting to compare French and English sentence structure. There are many similarities, and many big differences as well.Continue reading “Name That French Tense Activity – Practice Using French Tenses”
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French Sentence Structure – Le Futur Simple
You will never travel abroad if you don’t have a passport. Vous ne voyagerez jamais à l’étranger si vous n’avez pas de passeport. Comparing French and English Sentence Structure It can be interesting to look at French sentences and their English translations while comparing the two. Once you have identified corresponding words, you will realizeContinue reading “French Sentence Structure – Le Futur Simple”
French Sentence Structure – 3rd Conditional Si Clauses
I never would have talked to her about it if I had not believed that it was good news. Je ne lui en aurais jamais parlé si je n’avais pas cru que ce soit une bonne nouvelle. Comparing French and English Sentence Structure It can be interesting to look at French sentences and their EnglishContinue reading “French Sentence Structure – 3rd Conditional Si Clauses”
French Futur Antérieur Tense
👇 Scroll down to watch Jennifer’s lesson on the futur antérieur tense 👇 Le Futur Antérieur – French Future Perfect Tense This is a tense that you can use to talk about something that will have happened at some point in the future. The action will have had a beginning and an ending. This tenseContinue reading “French Futur Antérieur Tense”
French Future Tense Story – Le Futur Antérieur
La Journée de Vanessa – Le Futur Antérieur 👇 Scroll down for the English translation of this story 👇 La Journée de Vanessa Ce matin-là, le réveil de Vanessa aura sonné à six heures. Elle ne se sera pas levée tout de suite. Elle sera restée au lit jusqu’à six heures et demie. Ensuite, elleContinue reading “French Future Tense Story – Le Futur Antérieur”
French Listening Comprehension and Pronoun Practice
Listen to a six minute story, read by François, and complete an exercise filling in 100 blanks with all kinds of different pronouns! This story uses advanced level grammar and vocabulary. Follow the steps below for a complete learning experience including reading, writing, listening, and speaking. 👇Scroll down to complete the first part of this exercise👇Continue reading “French Listening Comprehension and Pronoun Practice”
Advanced French Dictée Exercises
This is a set of 20 advanced level dictées. These dictations are short dialogues between two people, read by François, a native Parisian. The dialogues are read slowly first and then even more slowly to give you time to write them down. Punctuation and links (liaisons) between words are pronounced. English translations are included. 👇Scroll downContinue reading “Advanced French Dictée Exercises”
Being Consistent with French Tenses
La Concordance des Temps This lesson will show intermediate to advanced learners of French how to reply to the following situations and retell a dialogue. Observe the following chart, and when you want to relay or retell information that has been said, pay close attention to the verb tense that is used in the directContinue reading “Being Consistent with French Tenses”
French Relative Pronoun Lesson – CE QUI – CE QUE – CE DONT
CE QUI – CE QUE – CE DONT 👉 Scroll to the bottom of this post to watch my video tutorial and take a quiz 👈 CE QUI, CE QUE and CE DONT are like the relative pronouns QUI, QUE, and DONT. They introduce dependent clauses. A dependent clause is one that has a subjectContinue reading “French Relative Pronoun Lesson – CE QUI – CE QUE – CE DONT”
French Relative Pronouns: QUI – QUE – OÙ – DONT
QUI – QUE – OÙ – DONT 👉 Scroll down to watch my video tutorial and take a quiz 👈 What is a relative pronoun? Relative pronouns are words that are used to link a dependent clause to a main clause. A dependent clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb.Continue reading “French Relative Pronouns: QUI – QUE – OÙ – DONT”
