French B2 · Upper intermediate
Develop arguments and summaries using the subjonctif passé, reported speech, tense agreement and expressions of concession, cause and consequence. Practise structured French for B2 tasks.
43 topics · Vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening and practice.
What you will study
- Day 1Looking for the ideal flatmate — Subjunctive in relative clauses
- Day 2Successes and failures — Past subjunctive
- Day 3The best memories — Subjunctive after superlatives and seul, premier
- Day 4Social inequality — Advanced concession: quoique, quel que soit, où que
- Day 5Economic crises — Expressing cause: étant donné que, puisque, faute de
- Day 6Climate change — Expressing consequence: si bien que, de sorte que, tellement que
- Day 7Data protection — Expressing purpose: de crainte que, de peur que
- Day 8Political life — Advanced time clauses: en attendant que, jusqu'à ce que
- Day 9Career choices — Hypothesis: mixed conditionals
- Day 10Future scenarios — Hypothesis without si: à supposer que, en admettant que
- Day 11Consumption — Passive alternatives: se faire, on, pronominal passive
- Day 12Charities and associations — Infinitive clauses (passé de l'infinitif)
- Day 13French history — Participial clauses (participe passé composé)
- Day 14Justice — Indefinite pronouns: n'importe qui, quiconque
- Day 15Science and research — Relative pronouns with prepositions (grâce auquel, parmi lesquels)
- Day 16Great French figures — Emphasis: c'est ... qui, c'est ... que
- Day 17Spoken French — Dislocation and topicalisation
- Day 18Official reports — Nominalisation in formal writing
- Day 19TV debates — Reporting verbs (affirmer, prétendre, nier)
- Day 20Contemporary literature — Free indirect speech
- Day 21Classic novels — Passé simple and passé antérieur
- Day 22Media and disinformation — Nuancing: modal verbs and adverbs
- Day 23Education — Articulators of argumentation: or, d'ailleurs, quant à
- Day 24Models of society — Expressing comparison: de même que, à l'instar de
- Day 25Modern fears — Ne explétif
- Day 26Workplace relationships — Verbs with changing meaning by preposition
- Day 27Gastronomy — Agreement of past participles: special cases
- Day 28Health and medicine — Idiomatic expressions with body parts
- Day 29New technologies — Prefixes and suffixes: word formation
- Day 30Applying for a job — Formal letter and cover letter
- Day 31Art and society — The essay: thesis, antithesis, synthesis
- Day 32Urban planning — Summarising and synthesising
- Day 33Youthful mistakes — Expressing regret and reproach
- Day 34Social movements — Expressing indignation and protest
- Day 35Urban culture — Familiar French and verlan
- Day 36Live performance — Faire, laisser, voir + infinitive
- Day 37Writing a short story — Tenses in literary narration
- Day 38Everyday philosophy — Abstract nouns and collocations
- Day 39Advertising — Persuasion techniques
- Day 40Presenting a project — Formal presentation and public speaking
- Day 41Political correctness — Euphemism and understatement
- Day 42French in Quebec and Africa — Regional French and francophone variation
- Day 43Defending a cause — B2 review: arguing a case