Consolidate the use of passé composé, imparfait, and plus-que-parfait. Focus on their nuances in narration.
Lessons in: Level B2 (Upper-Intermediate Level French Course)
- 📖 Revision of past tenses
- 🎓 Past Tenses in French — Passé composé, Imparfait, Plus-que-parfait (B1–B2)
Learn how to form and use the conditional past. Express regrets, reproaches, and unrealized situations.
- 📖 The Conditional past
- 🎓 Quiz – Conditional Past
- 🎓 Le conditionnel passé — French Conditional Perfect (B1–B2)
Go beyond B1 by mastering si + plus-que-parfait → conditional past. Use it to imagine past events differently.
- 📖 Advanced “if” clauses
- 🎓 Quiz Advanced “if” clauses
Review the formation of the subjunctive and its irregular verbs. Ensure accuracy in more complex sentences.
- 📖 The Subjunctive in depth: review
- 🎓 Quizz The subjunctive B2
- 🎓 Le subjonctif — The Subjunctive Mood (B1–B2)
Use the subjunctive with expressions of doubt, emotion, concession, and complex connectors such as bien que, quoique, pourvu que.
- 📖 Subjunctive in advanced contexts
- 🎓 Quizz Advanced subjunctive contexts
- 🎓 Le subjonctif (usages avancés & précision) — The Subjunctive Mood Advanced (B2)
Discover how the subjunctive interacts with past and future tenses. Practice in both oral and written contexts.
- 📖 Sequence of tenses with the subjunctive
- 🎓 Quiz: Time concordance of the subjunctive
Learn lequel, auquel, duquel and their agreements. Master subtler ways to connect ideas.
- 📖 Relative pronouns: advanced forms
- 🎓 Quiz Relative pronouns advanced
- 🎓 Pronoms relatifs composés : lequel, auquel, duquel (B2)
Understand how to create precise descriptions and explanations with relative structures.
- 📖 Nominal and verbal relative clauses
- 🎓 Quizz Nominal and Verbal Relative Clauses
Review COD, COI, y, en together. Focus on double pronouns and their order in a sentence.
- 📖 Advanced object pronouns
- 🎓 Quiz Advanced Object Pronouns
Practice stressed pronouns, combinations, and reinforcement for stylistic nuance.
- 📖 Emphasis with pronouns
- 🎓 Quiz Emphasis with pronouns
- 🎓 Pronoms toniques — Quiz (B1)
Learn how to form the passive voice with different tenses. Practice transforming sentences from active to passive.
- 📖 The Passive voice
- 🎓 Quiz The Passive voice
Discover stylistic alternatives: “on” constructions, reflexive forms, and impersonal expressions.
- 📖 Alternatives to the passive
- 🎓 Alternatives to the Passive Voice in French (B2)
Master tense shifts with complex verbs. Learn to report past, future, and conditional statements correctly.
- 📖 Reported speech: advanced transformations
- 🎓 Quiz Reported Speech
- 🎓 Reported Speech – Discours indirect
Use connectors for argumentation: néanmoins, toutefois, en revanche, par conséquent, ainsi, or whereas.
- 📖 Advanced logical connectors
- 🎓 Quiz Advanced logical connectors
Learn various structures to explain reasons and results: à cause de, grâce à, puisque, comme, si bien que.
- 📖 Expressing cause and consequence
- 🎓 Cause & Consequence B2
Study the refined use of l’on in written French.
You will practice recognizing it in literature and formal texts.
- 📖 Stylistic subtlety – “on” vs “l’on”
- 🎓 On vs L’on — Stylistic Quiz (B2)
Use advanced expressions such as bien que, même si, malgré, tandis que, alors que.
- 📖 Expressing concession and opposition
- 🎓 Concession_et_Opposition_B2
Practice purpose clauses with pour que, afin que, de peur que, en vue de.
- 📖 Expressing purpose
- 🎓 Structures de But
Master structures like à condition que, à moins que, pourvu que, sauf si.
- 📖 Expressing Condition and Restriction
- 🎓 Conditions et Restrictions
Discover how to turn verbs into nouns to build more formal and complex sentences.
- 📖 Nominalization and Advanced Sentence Structures
- 🎓 Quiz Nominalization and Advanced Sentence Structures
Introduction to advanced literary verb forms.
You will learn to recognize and use them in formal texts.
- 📖 Literary tenses – Passé simple
- 🎓 B2 – Literary Tenses: Le passé simple
Introduction to advanced literary verb forms.
You will learn to recognize and use them in formal texts.
- 📖 Passé antérieur (Literary Past Perfect)
- 🎓 Passé antérieur (B2)
Introduction to advanced literary verb forms.
You will learn to recognize and use them in formal texts.
- 📖 Literary Tenses: subjonctif imparfait
- 📖 Extrait littéraire (pastiche) – Subjonctif imparfait en contexte
- 🎓 Literary Tenses – Subjonctif Imparfait (B2)
Learn how to express making someone do something or having something done.
You will practice causative structures in everyday and formal contexts.
- 📖 Faire faire, se faire + infinitive, se laisser + infinitive
- 🎓 Causatives in French – faire, se faire, se laisser (B2)
Study the most common French prefixes.
You will learn how they modify meaning and create new words.
- 📖 Morphology – Prefixes (re-, dé-, in-, etc.)
- 🎓 Morphology — Prefixes in French (B2)
Introduction to productive suffixes in French.
You will practice identifying patterns in word formation.
- 📖 Morphology – Suffixes (-age, -tion, -ment…)
- 🎓 Morphology — Productive Suffixes in French (B2)
Learn how to use the stylistic ne in formal French.
You will recognize contexts where it appears without negation.
- 📖 Explétive “ne” (après avant que, à moins que, etc.)
- 🎓 The Explétive ne in French (B2)
Clarify the difference between c’est and il est.
You will learn rules for describing people, professions, and situations.
- 📖 Distinction c’est vs il est
- 🎓 Distinction: C’est vs Il est (B2)
Learn common and hard irregular plural forms in French.
You will practice applying them in both spoken and written contexts.
- 📖 Hard irregular plurals
- 🎓 Pluriels irréguliers difficiles (B2)
Introduction to French punctuation rules.
You will see how they differ from English usage.
- 📖 French punctuation
- 🎓 Ponctuation française — Quiz (B2/C1)