French grammar traps for English speakers
Short lessons on the essentials of French, each with a diagram to understand and a game to practise. The questions change every round.
- Le or la? The ending gives it away · The sneaky exceptions · Adjectives copy the noun · People and jobs
- False friends Words wearing a disguise · More traps
- COD, COI, y and en Who catches the ball? · Shrink it to a pronoun · y and en · The past participle looks back
- Sound-alikes a / à, ou / où, et / est · ce / se, ces / ses, c'est / s'est, son / sont, on / ont · leur / leurs and the tout family
- Accents and spelling Hats on letters · -er, -é or -ez? The vendre trick · The c with a tail, and sleeping letters
- Talking about the past Passé composé or imparfait? · The house of être · With être, the participle matches the subject · The plus-que-parfait: the past before the past
- Building sentences qui, que, dont, où · Saying no: the ne ... pas sandwich · Three ways to ask a question · Comparing: plus, moins, aussi
- The subjunctive When do you need it? · How to build it
- Verbs in the present -er verbs: the big family · -ir and -re verbs · The big four: être, avoir, aller, faire
- Future and conditional Two futures: aller + verb, and the futur simple · The conditional: would
- The little words du, de la, des: some · mon, ma, mes: whose is it? · ce, cet, cette, ces: this and that · en France, au Canada, à Paris · c'est or il est?
- Word shapes Making plurals · Adverbs in -ment · Giving orders: the imperative · Reflexive verbs: se lever, se laver · Question words: qui, que, quel, lequel
- Classic mix-ups depuis, pendant or pour? · savoir or connaître? · bon or bien? mauvais or mal? · il y a, c'est or il est? · Verbs that flip: manquer, plaire, falloir