Use the French present tense
Understand the main uses of the present and form regular and essential irregular verbs.
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22 lessons in the curriculum
Understand the main uses of the present and form regular and essential irregular verbs.
Learn French nouns together with un or une so you can choose the correct article.
Show whether you mean one noun or more than one by changing the article and noun together.
Choose un, une, des, le, la, l’, or les to express a, some, or the.
Replace names and nouns with je, tu, il, elle, on, nous, vous, ils, or elles.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons A1-01–A1-05: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
Use être and avoir in the present for identity, description, location, possession, and age.
Form regular -er verbs in the present by adding the six subject endings.
Use aller, faire, venir, and prendre in the present.
Use c’est or ce sont to identify and pronoun + est or sont to describe.
Make adjectives agree with masculine, feminine, singular, and plural nouns.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons A1-06–A1-10: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
Place common adjectives naturally before or after the noun.
Choose mon, ma, mes and related possessive forms from the owner and possessed noun.
Choose ce, cet, cette, or ces from number, gender, and first sound.
Form basic negative sentences with ne or n’ before the verb and pas after it.
Ask yes-or-no questions with intonation or est-ce que and answer with oui, non, or si.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons A1-11–A1-15: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
Ask for a person, thing, place, time, reason, method, quantity, or choice.
Use il y a to say that someone or something exists or is present.
Choose a place word for a city, country, person’s place, or physical position.
Form au, aux, du, and des from à or de plus the definite article.
Use du, de la, de l’, or des for unspecified amounts and de after quantities.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons A1-16–A1-20: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
Use present aller plus an infinitive to express a plan or near-future event.
Use subject-matching reflexive pronouns with present-tense daily-routine verbs.
Test the complete A1 level with multiple choice, reading comprehension, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
24 lessons in the curriculum
Form regular finir-type -ir and regular -re verbs in the present.
Use present-tense spelling and stem changes for common -er verb families.
Give affirmative and negative tu, nous, and vous commands.
Replace a directly affected person or thing with a direct-object pronoun.
Replace a person introduced by à with an indirect-object pronoun.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons A2-01–A2-06: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
Use y for places and à-things; use en for de-phrases, partitives, and quantities.
Place two known object pronouns in the standard order before the verb.
Use avoir plus a past participle to describe a completed past action.
Use être with a small group of movement/change verbs and make the participle agree with the subject.
Build a reflexive past action with a reflexive pronoun, être, and a past participle.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons A2-07–A2-11: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
forming and using the imperfect for descriptions, repeated habits, and ongoing background actions.
completed event versus background, habit, interruption, and change of state.
Use venir de plus an infinitive for something that has just happened.
forming the simple future with regular infinitives, -re stems, irregular stems, and six consistent endings.
Compare two people or things with more, less, or as.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons A2-12–A2-16: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
Identify the highest or lowest degree within a group.
Join two ideas and avoid repeating a noun with qui, que, or où.
Replace a noun with celui, celle, ceux, or celles when pointing out a specific one.
`le mien`, `la tienne`, `les leurs`, and agreement.
`quelqu'un`, `quelque chose`, `personne`, `rien`, `tout`, `chaque`, `plusieurs`, and `certains`.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons A2-17–A2-21: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
`ne ... jamais`, `plus`, `rien`, `personne`, `aucun`, and combined meanings.
formation in `-ment`, common irregular adverbs, position, and intensity.
`depuis`, `pendant`, `pour`, `en`, `il y a`, `dans`, `ça fait`, and `jusqu'à`.
`pouvoir`, `devoir`, `falloir`, `avoir besoin de`, and `il vaut mieux`.
Test the complete A2 level with multiple choice, reading comprehension, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
24 lessons in the curriculum
Review avoir, être, reflexive forms, agreement, and sequence words to narrate completed past events.
Show that one action was already complete before another past event or situation.
preceding direct objects, pronouns, and introductory special cases.
direct versus indirect reflexive pronouns and invariable participles.
polite requests, advice, imagined results, reported information, and future-in-the-past.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons B1-01–B1-05: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
Use si plus the imperfect and the present conditional for imagined or unlikely present situations.
formation, irregular stems, and the purpose of the mood.
common triggers and contrasts with the indicative.
possession, verbs and adjectives with `de`, and common errors.
`lequel` forms, people versus things, and `auquel/duquel`.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons B1-06–B1-10: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
`ce qui`, `ce que`, `ce dont`, and `ce à quoi`.
Advanced review of two-pronoun order in statements, negatives, infinitives, and commands.
statements, questions, commands, and changes in pronouns and determiners.
introductory backshifting and changes in time and place expressions.
formation, tense, `par` versus `de`, agent omission, and when French prefers an active alternative.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons B1-11–B1-15: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
arranging, causing, or having something done, including object pronouns.
no preposition, `à`, or `de`, and useful meaning patterns.
`en + present participle` for simultaneity, means, condition, and contrast.
formation, use, agreement, and the distinction between the two.
`ne ... que`, `neither/nor`, negative infinitives, and negative words as subjects.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons B1-16–B1-20: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
clauses and connectors with the correct mood and register.
`mais`, `pourtant`, `même si`, `bien que`, `malgré`, and related structures.
`quand`, `lorsque`, `dès que`, `avant que`, `après que`, `pendant que`, and mood choice.
`c'est ... qui/que`, detached topics, stressed pronouns, and natural spoken emphasis.
Test the complete B1 level with multiple choice, reading comprehension, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
24 lessons in the curriculum
certainty, opinion, negation, interrogation, relative clauses, and intended meaning.
anterior actions, formation, agreement, and contrasts with the present subjunctive.
unreal past results, regret, reproach, and unconfirmed reporting.
counterfactual past and hypotheses crossing time frames.
completed future actions, assumptions about the past, and time-clause relationships.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons B2-01–B2-05: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
coordinating present, past, future, conditional, and subjunctive viewpoints.
full backshift, embedded questions, commands, modal changes, and faithful reformulation.
`se faire`, `se laisser`, impersonal `on`, pronominal passives, and agent focus.
`faire`, `laisser`, perception verbs, two objects, pronouns, and agreement.
complex antecedents, prepositions, `dont/duquel`, and avoiding ambiguous reference.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons B2-06–B2-10: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
ideas, clauses, fixed verbal constructions, and register limits.
expressed or understood subjects, prepositions, negation, and the past infinitive.
expressing time, cause, condition, and written concision.
turning clauses into noun phrases, choosing suffixes, and controlling formal density.
`il faut`, `il semble`, `il s'agit de`, weather expressions, and extraposed clauses.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons B2-11–B2-15: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
generic reference, abstraction, institutions, professions, and omission of the article.
changes in meaning, multiple adjectives, complements, and detached adjectives.
simple and compound tenses, infinitives, sentence adverbs, and meaning changes.
infinitives, quantities, impersonal verbs, `en`, and special participles.
`à condition que`, `pourvu que`, `au cas où`, `à moins que`, and participial alternatives.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons B2-16–B2-20: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
`quoique`, `encore que`, `avoir beau`, `quitte à`, and inverted patterns.
addition, reformulation, illustration, conclusion, and punctuation.
clefts, pseudo-clefts, `ce qui/ce que ... c'est`, fronting, and contrastive focus.
spoken, neutral, and formal alternatives in questions, negation, pronouns, and sentence structure.
Test the complete B2 level with multiple choice, reading comprehension, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
20 lessons in the curriculum
presenting an event as complete, unfolding, repeated, imminent, or viewed retrospectively.
layered narration, anteriority, posteriority, and shifts in temporal viewpoint.
choosing passé composé, imperfect, and pluperfect clearly in formal and extended narratives.
assertion, evaluation, indefiniteness, restrictive relatives, and subtle mood alternation.
recognizing imperfect and pluperfect subjunctives and judging when not to use them.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons C1-01–C1-05: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
use after fear, prevention, comparison, and temporal conjunctions; distinction from negation.
probability, attribution, caution, politeness, and speaker commitment.
free indirect discourse, mixed quotation, reporting verbs, and point of view.
stacked complements, apposition, embedded clauses, and clarity in dense prose.
detached participles, explicit subjects, logical relationships, and ambiguity control.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons C1-06–C1-10: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
anteriority, agency, passive infinitives, and formal compression.
questions, reporting clauses, conditional inversion, adverb-triggered inversion, and literary effects.
concealing or foregrounding agency in academic, administrative, and journalistic prose.
pronouns, pro-forms, omitted elements, and recoverability.
anaphora, cataphora, demonstratives, lexical chains, and unambiguous cohesion.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons C1-11–C1-15: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
near-synonymous prepositions, fixed complements, and meaning shifts.
combining mood, modality, connectors, and parenthetical comments.
theme, focus, fronting, postponement, dislocation, and rhetorical emphasis.
commas, colons, semicolons, dashes, parentheses, quotation, and syntactic boundaries.
rewriting the same message in conversational, professional, academic, administrative, and literary French.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons C1-16–C1-20: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
Test the complete C1 level with multiple choice, reading comprehension, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
16 lessons in the curriculum
combining tense, mood, modality, evidentiality, and attribution to control commitment.
remote hypotheses, implicit conditions, retrospective alternatives, and rhetorical counterfactuals.
distancing, endorsement, irony, echo, and multiple viewpoints within one passage.
historic present, narrative future, imperfect of attenuation, and deliberate temporal rupture.
balancing main and subordinate clauses while preserving hierarchy and readability.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons C2-01–C2-05: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
choosing the relationship that best conveys argument and emphasis.
detecting and repairing unclear attachment, reference, scope, and coordination.
nested relatives, competing antecedents, resumptive strategies, and elegant restructuring.
lists, comparisons, paired structures, antithesis, and deliberate variation.
zeugma, gapping, nominal compression, and the limits of recoverability.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons C2-06–C2-10: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
inversion, detachment, postponement, fragmentation, and controlled sentence fragments.
authentic omission, reformulation, segmentation, discourse markers, and the boundary between natural and careless speech.
grammar choices across intimate, public, institutional, academic, and literary contexts.
standard recommendations, accepted alternatives, regional tendencies, and evolving norms.
diagnosing grammatical correctness, awkwardness, ambiguity, redundancy, and unintended tone.
A balanced checkpoint for lessons C2-11–C2-15: every lesson contributes grammar, completion, translation, and vocabulary practice. Includes grammar, reading, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.
interpreting and rewriting complex authentic-style passages using the complete A1-C2 system.
Test the complete C2 level with multiple choice, reading comprehension, fill-in-the-blanks, translation, and vocabulary.