Learn how to distinguish between these two past tenses. Understand when to use one or the other to tell a story.
Lessons in: Level B1 (Intermediate Level French Course)
- 📖 Passé composé vs imparfait
- 🎓 B1 — Passé composé vs Imparfait
Discover how to talk about actions that happened before another past action. An essential tool to enrich your narratives.
- 📖 The pluperfect
- 🎓 B1 — Plus-que-parfait
Learn how to form and use the futur simple. Express your plans and predictions with clarity.
- 📖 The futur simple
- 🎓 B1 — Le Futur simple
Discover how to describe an action that will be completed in the future. Perfect for structuring precise sentences.
- 📖 The future perfect tense
- 🎓 B1 — Le Futur antérieur
Express wishes, hypotheses, or politeness. This tense makes your speech more nuanced.
- 📖 The present conditional
- 🎓 B1 — Le Conditionnel présent
Master the first conditional structure. Talk about real situations and their consequences.
- 📖 The first conditional structure
- 🎓 B1 — Si + présent → futur simple
Learn how to talk about unreal situations. This structure helps you express dreams or regrets.
- 📖 The second conditionnal
- 🎓 B1 — Si + imparfait → conditionnel présent (phrases à trous)
Discover how to imagine the past differently. A useful construction for unreal past situations.
- 📖 The third conditional
- 🎓 Quiz The third conditionnal
- 🎓 Quiz Third conditionnal fill in
Learn how to form the present subjunctive. An essential mood to express feelings and opinions.
- 📖 The subjunctive
- 🎓 Quiz The subjunctive
- 🎓 B1 — Subjonctif présent (use & form)
Discover the most frequent phrases with the subjunctive. A must-have skill for both speaking and writing.
- 📖 The subjunctive: common expressions
- 🎓 Quiz Common subjunctive expressions
- 🎓 Subjonctif : Doute, Possibilité & Incertitude
Review how to use these pronouns to avoid repetition. Essential for speaking more naturally.
- 📖 Direct and indirect object pronouns
- 🎓 Quiz Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns
- 🎓 COD & COI : Object Pronouns in French
Learn how to use these very common pronouns. They simplify your sentences and make them flow better.
- 📖 The pronouns Y and EN
- 🎓 Quiz The pronouns Y and EN
Discover how to emphasize a person with stressed pronouns. Very useful in conversation to highlight importance.
- 📖 Stressed Pronouns
- 🎓 Stressed Pronouns
Qui, que, où, dont: learn how to connect your sentences. A key tool to enrich your texts and conversations.
- 📖 Simple relative pronouns
- 🎓 Quiz Simple Relative Pronouns
Express comparisons in a simple and precise way. Learn to use the superlative to emphasize an idea.
- 📖 Comparative and superlative
- 🎓 Quiz Comparative and Superlative
Understand how to make past participles agree with the noun. An important rule to avoid frequent mistakes.
- 📖 Past participle agreement used as an adjective
- 🎓 Quiz Past Participle as Adjective
Learn how to report what someone said. Transform tenses correctly into indirect speech.
- 📖 Reported speech: introduction
- 🎓 Quiz Reported speech
Discover how to organize your ideas with connectors. They bring clarity and coherence to your sentences.
- 📖 Logical connectors
- 🎓 Quiz Logical connectors
- 🎓 Logical Connectors — Translations & Fill‑in‑the‑Blank (B1–B2)
Quand, pendant que, dès que… Master these links to structure your stories and place actions in time.
- 📖 Temporal clauses
- 🎓 Quiz Temporal clauses
Learn the difference between active and passive voice. The passive voice helps you emphasize the action itself.
- 📖 Introduction to the passive voice
- 🎓 Quiz Passive Voice
Learn when to use the subjunctive versus the indicative.
You will practice expressing doubt, necessity, and certainty.
- 📖 Subjunctive vs indicative
- 🎓 Subjunctive vs Indicative — Triggers & Forms (B1–B2)
Introduction to coordinating conjunctions.
You will learn to link ideas and clauses more fluently.
- 📖 Conjunctions – Coordination (mais, ou, et, donc, or, ni, car)
- 🎓 Conjunctions — Coordination (B1–B2)
Discover subordinating conjunctions for cause and condition.
You will learn to make your sentences more complex.
- 📖 Conjunctions – Subordination (because, if, as…)
- 🎓 Conjunctions — Subordination (B1–B2)
Learn time-related connectors to structure narratives.
You will practice sequencing actions in past, present, and future.
- 📖 Conjunctions – Time (as soon as, before…)
Introduction to geographic prepositions.
You will learn to say where you are, where you’re going, and where you’re from.
- 📖 Prepositions with countries, regions, cities (en, au, aux, à)
- 🎓 Prepositions — Countries, Regions & Cities (B1)
Learn how to express actions that just happened.
You will practice forming and using the recent past in conversation.
- 📖 The Recent Past
- 🎓 The Recent Past — venir de + infinitive (B1)
Introduction to common indefinite pronouns.
You will practice using them in questions and statements.
- 📖 Indefinite pronouns (someone, something, nobody, nothing…)
- 🎓 Indefinite Pronouns — sense & placement (B1–B2)
Discover the many meanings of tout.
You will practice using it with nouns, pronouns, and adjectives.
- 📖 Multiple uses of “tout” (tout, toute, tous, toutes, tout + adjective)
- 🎓 TOUT — Forms & Uses (B1)
Learn to avoid common traps between French and English.
You will practice recognizing and correcting false friends in context.
- 📖 False friends
- 🎓 False Friends (Faux amis) — Avoiding traps (B1–B2)