“Where are those Comprehension Exercises everyone is talking about? I would love to give them a try!”
Eh bien, you’re in the right place!
Comprehension Exercises have joined our Premium offering, which also includes fresh Writing Challenges and Dictées every week.
To see how awesome these exercises are, here are 10 Interactive Readers complete with Comprehension Exercises, covering levels from A1 to C1 (see pyramid below), all free to take and retake as many times as you want!
FREE Comprehension Exercises
- C1: La Toussaint
- C1: 3 Légendes de Bretagne
Want to try the Dictées and Writing Challenges?
Pas de problème ! Here are the links to our FREE Dictées and FREE Writing Challenges.
How do Comprehension Exercises work?
Choose your setup
Use the tick box above the text to turn translations and grammar tips on or off. When they’re on, click on any phrase to see them.
Read the text
Work through the Interactive Reader at your own pace3
Answer the questions
When you’re ready, start the comprehension exercise
Answer in English: we’re testing your understanding of the text, not your grammar or expression, so nothing you write here will be marked for accuracy.
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Author info
Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since. She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!