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Optional Online Exercises

for French 2

These exercises will give you more practice with the material covered in class.  Answers are available for all exercises: most are interactive; some you will need to print out (along with answers). Since the exercises come from a variety of sources, the vocabulary may not correspond exactly with that used in Rapports. Some sites with images take a while to load, so please be patient.  Amusez-vous bien!

This website is intended primarily for the use of students at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. Use of this site for commercial gain is not permitted. Thank you for your cooperation.

If you have any problems finding what you need, contact me!

 

 

Review of Essential French 1 Materials:

Definite, Indefinite and Partitive Articles

Review of Etre and Avoir

Review of Faire

Review of Aller

Online Review of Etre, Avoir, Faire, Aller, Boire

Les verbes en –re

The Passé Composé with Avoir

Another passé composé review with Avoir

The Passé Composé with Etre

A Self-Review of the Passé Composé

Time Expressions and the Passé Composé

Prepostions with Countries: en or à

Prepositions with Place Names

Review: Questions with Inversion

 

 

 

 

Rapports, Chapter 7:

Ch. 7, Grammar Section I

Interactive Exercise for Demonstrative Adjectives "ce, cet, cette, ces"

More Practice with Demonstrative Adjectives

Interactive Exercise for the Interrogative Adjective “quel”

L’adjectif intérrogatif “quel”

More Practice with "Quel"

 

 

Ch. 7, Grammar Section II

Interactive Exercise for –ir (2nd conjugation) verbs

-IR verbs conjugated like dormir (MTV verbs)

Les verbes réguliers en -ir

Plus de verbes en -ir

-IR verbs conjugated like choisir

Practice with -ER, –IR, and –RE verbs

Verbes en -IR

Practice 2nd and 3rd Conjugation Verbs in the Present Tense

 

 

Ch. 7, Grammar Section III

Qui? Que? Où? Pourquoi?  (an easy one!)

Asking Questions: Using Interrogative Words

French Interrogative Pronouns: Qui / Que

Interactive Exercise for Interrogative Pronouns and “quel”

Interrogatives

Interrogative Pronouns

 

 

Ch. 7, Grammar Section IV

Pouvoir

Vouloir

Vouloir encore

Vouloir and Pouvoir

Encore des verbes Vouloir, Pouvoir, Aller et Faire

Faire, Vouloir, Pouvoir

(a challenge game to play alone or with a partner)

 

 

 

 

Rapports, Chapter 8:

Ch. 8, Grammar I

Common Weather Expressions

Practice Weather Expressions

Do you know the “weather” vocabulary? Check yourself!

Quel temps fait-il?

La Météo

 

Ch. 8, Grammar II

Practice with “suivre”

Les matières avec faire, étudier, suivre

Suivre and Vivre (to live—conjugated exactly like "suivre")

 

 

Ch. 8, Grammar III

Practice with Direct Objects at Swarthmore I

Practice with Direct Objects at Swarthmore II

Direct Object Pronouns

Direct Object Pronouns—encore

Direct Object Pronouns with the Passé Composé

More Direct Object Pronouns with the Passé Composé

 

 

Ch. 8, Grammar IV

Practice with the Present Tense of Vouloir, Pouvoir, Voir, Faire, etc.

Voir in the Present Tense

Practice with Voir (or a compound of Voir) in the Passé Composé and Infinitive

 

 

 

 

Rapports, Chapter 9:

Ch. 9, Grammar I

Adjectives that precede the noun

Adjective Phrases: translate these English Phrases into French

Les adjectifs

Describing : Placement of Adjectives

Les adjectives—suite

More Adjective Practice 

Adjective Placement and Agreement

Choisis les adjectifs

 

 

Ch. 9, Grammar II

Practice with Weather and the Calendar

Les mois de l’année

Les saisons

Le Calendrier:  Comment dit-on cela en français?

 

 

Ch. 9, Grammar III

Indirect Object Pronouns

Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns

Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns II

More Direct and Indirect Object Pronoun Exercises

Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns (with passé compose)

 

 

Ch. 9, Grammar IV

Practice with Prendre (note: click on the number; then the answer)

Les verbes "prendre,"  "comprendre" et "apprendre"

Prendre and verbs conjugated like prendre

Prendre and Compounds formed with Prendre

 

 

 

 

Rapports, Chapter 10:

Ch. 10, Grammar I

Savoir / Connaître—an easy one!

Les verbes Savoir et Pouvoir

Savoir, Pouvoir, Vouloir

Savoir ou Connaître?

Completing Sentence with Savoir or Connaître 

Savoir ou Connaître—suite

Savoir ou Connaître? II

Savoir / Connaître?—a bit more difficult

 

 

Ch. 10, Grammar II

Avoir or être au Passé Composé?

Using the Passé Composé with Verbs Conjugated with être 

Practice with Verbs Conjugated with être

Practice the passé composé with être and avoir

The Perfect Tense   

(includes 9 different exercises but when you get the correct answers, igore the comment that you are “magnifique,” and just compare your answers with those provided.  I deliberately got them all wrong and I was congratulated anyway!)

Mettez au passé composé

Le passé composé

Using the Passé Composé

 

 

Ch. 10, Grammar III

Forming the Imparfait

L’imparfait

L’imparfait: la France en 2002

*Links to a series of optional supplemental exercises on the Passé Composé and Imparfait

*If you do only one group of exercises, this is the one to do!

Using the Imparfait for Habitual Past Actions

Practice with the Imparfait: "Je me souviens" (I remember)

More Practice with the Imparfait 

There are 2 pages of exercises here; at the bottom of page 1, click on the button to get to page 2.

 

 

Ch. 10, Grammar IV

Practice with Tenir, Venir, and verbs that derive from them

Practice with Venir—present and passé composé

Practice with “Venir de” 

Complete Sentences with “Venir” or “Venir de”

Le Passé Proche:  venir de + infinitive

 

 

 

 

Rapports, Chapter 11:

Ch. 11, Grammar I

Direct Object Pronouns

Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns

More Direct Object Pronouns

More Practice with Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns

Les pronoms complements indirects

 

 

Ch. 11, Grammar II

Exercise: Using the subjunctive with Regular Verbs

Forming the subjunctive of regular verbs

 

 

Ch. 11, Grammar III

Impersonal Expressions with Subjunctive and Infinitive

Choosing between Subjunctive and Indicative

Exercice: Subjonctif ou infinitif?

 

 

 

 

Rapports, Chapter 12:

Ch. 12, Grammar I

devoir

Pouvoir, devoir, vouloir

One more time: vouloir, pouvoir, devoir

Vouloir, Pouvoir, Devoir and Infinitives

Boire, Devoir, Recevoir—

(Do you know what they mean and can you conjugate them in the Present Tense?)

 

 

Ch. 12, Grammar II

The subjunctive of être, avoir, faire, aller

Subjunctive Forms of Irregular Verbs

Use of the Subjunctive After Expressions of Doubt

Use of the Subjunctive After Expressions of Obligation

Practice Exercises with the Subjunctive of Irregular Verbs

Practice Exercise 2: Subjunctive or Indicative

Practice Choosing between the Subjunctive and Indicative

Le subjonctif ou l’indicatif?

 

 

Ch. 12, Grammar III

Practice Exercises with the Negative

Negatives

Questions and Negative Answers (answer in complete sentences)

Forming Sentences Using the Negative

Monsieur Misérable Est Négatif!

 

 

If you feel you need more practice for the Final,
try these exercises:

Review Regular and Irregular Past Participles

Review the agreement of past participles with direct objects

Practice the passé composé

Another review of Vouloir, Pouvoir, Devoir

The first person singular of the subjunctive of some irregular verbs

The first person plural of the subjunctive of some irregular verbs

The Subjunctive: everything you should know!

Les Négations

For additional practice with the passé composé/imparfait, see Chapter 10 above

For additional practice with the subjunctive, see also Chapters 11-12 above.

 

 

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Suggestions?  Broken Links?

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