Unit 1 · 5 lessons
Précision: Sharpening the Basics
Take the Grade 9 basics — the present tense, questions, adjectives and comparisons — and make them precise, with spelling-change verbs, savoir versus connaître, inversion, meaning-changing adjectives, adverbs and every kind of comparison.
- 59 practice questions
- 45 flashcards
Lessons
- 1The Present Tense, SharpenedA quick recap of the regular present-tense endings, then the Grade 10 layer: verbs whose spelling shifts to protect a sound (mangeons, achète, appelle, envoie), more irregular verbs (boire, devoir, croire, recevoir, connaître, partir, sortir, dormir), and which verbs take à, de or no preposition at all.12 questions
- 2Savoir or Connaître?English has one verb, to know; French has two. Savoir is for facts, information and skills (followed by an infinitive or a clause), connaître is for familiarity with people, places and works — and in the past tenses each verb shifts meaning.11 questions
- 3Asking Questions: Inversion and InterrogativesBeyond intonation and est-ce que: the formal inversion question (Parlez-vous… ? A-t-il… ? Marie parle-t-elle… ?), the agreeing interrogatives quel and lequel, the difference between qui, que, quoi and qu'est-ce qui, and why a French question never ends with a preposition.12 questions
- 4Adjectives in Depth and AdverbsIrregular feminine and plural adjective forms, the extra masculine forms bel, nouvel and vieil, adjectives whose meaning changes with their position (mon ancienne école vs une maison ancienne), sensory adjectives for vivid description, and how to build adverbs, including -amment and -emment.12 questions
- 5Comparing Qualities, Quantities and ActionsComparatives for adjectives and adverbs (plus… que, aussi… que), for quantities (plus de, autant de) and for actions (travailler plus que), the irregular meilleur, mieux and pire, superlatives with de, and extras such as plus de + number, de plus en plus and stressed pronouns after que.12 questions