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Core French

Grade 11 University Preparation, following the Ontario curriculum.

  • 5 units
  • 25 lessons
  • 241 practice questions
  • 212 flashcards
  • 2 simulators
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Try oneFSF3U · Forming the Subjonctif Présent
Which sentence spells the subjonctif correctly?

Units

Unit 1 · 5 lessons · ~20% of course

Le subjonctif: Wishes, Feelings and Doubts

Master the subjonctif présent: its forms, the wishes, needs, feelings and doubts that trigger it, the conjunctions that demand it, and when an infinitive replaces it.

  1. 1Forming the Subjonctif Présent
  2. 2Will, Necessity and Emotion
  3. 3Doubt versus Certainty
  4. 4Conjunctions That Demand the Subjonctif
  5. 5Subjonctif or Infinitive?
Unit 2 · 5 lessons · ~20% of course

Raconter: Sequencing Events in the Past

Tell a story or report the news so a listener can follow exactly what happened when: the passé composé and imparfait as the two layers of a narrative, the plus-que-parfait for the earlier past, the tense shifts of reported speech, the time expressions depuis, pendant, il y a and dans, and the connectors that turn a list of events into a story.

  1. 1Passé Composé and Imparfait in a Narrative
  2. 2The Plus-que-parfait and the Order of Events
  3. 3Reporting What Someone Said
  4. 4Time Expressions: depuis, pendant, il y a, dans
  5. 5Structuring a Story or Report
Unit 3 · 5 lessons · ~20% of course

Hypothèses: Conditions and Consequences

Use the conditionnel to request, advise, persuade and report unconfirmed news, build real and imagined si clauses, form the conditionnel passé, imagine a different past, and express regrets and tactful reproaches.

  1. 1The Conditionnel Présent: Politeness, Advice and Persuasion
  2. 2Si Clauses: Real and Imagined
  3. 3The Conditionnel Passé
  4. 4Si + Plus-que-parfait: Imagining a Different Past
  5. 5Regrets, Reproaches and Missed Chances
Unit 4 · 5 lessons · ~20% of course

Structures précises: Relatives, Adverbs and Participles

Write and speak with more precision: ce qui, ce que and ce dont for the English what, lequel and où after prepositions, adverbs that persuade and nuance, the participe présent and the gérondif, and the structures ni… ni, soit… soit and ne… que.

  1. 1Ce qui, ce que, ce dont
  2. 2Lequel after a Preposition, and Où for Time and Place
  3. 3Adverbs: Forming, Placing and Persuading
  4. 4Participe Présent and Gérondif
  5. 5Negation and Choice: ni… ni, soit… soit, ne… que
Unit 5 · 5 lessons · ~20% of course

La francophonie, Language and Writing

Explore how French spread and what it means in Acadia, Haïti, Sénégal and Ontario, handle register, on and regional vocabulary, use idioms and proverbs well, read with strategy and word families, and write cover letters, surveys and opinion texts for a real audience.

  1. 1French-Speaking Communities and Their Histories
  2. 2Register, on, and Regional French
  3. 3Idioms and Proverbs
  4. 4Reading Strategies and Building Vocabulary
  5. 5Writing for an Audience: Letters, Surveys and Opinion Texts

Simulators

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FSF3U
Subjunctive Trigger Lab

Build a sentence from a trigger, two subjects and a verb, and watch the second verb switch between subjonctif, indicatif and infinitive with the reason for each decision, then practise choosing the mood and typing the form.

Used in 4 lessons
FSF3U
Si-Clause Lab

Pick a real, imagined or mixed hypothesis and watch the si-clause and the result take matching tenses on a real-versus-imagined timeline, then fill in clauses and fix the classic si + futur mistake.

Used in 3 lessons