I LOVE this exercise! It's so helpful to see what types of errors I'm making and for instant feedback on vocabulary choices.
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Once you’ve completed the exercise, there’s a list of grammar topics tested. If you have questions please post them under the most suitable grammar topic (if it’s related to a specific point), or here or on the QandA forum (for general questions). Don’t forget you can add any of the lessons to your notebook(s) and then kwiz against them to strengthen the areas where you discovered you were weak.
A1 French Writing Challenge
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Translate: “On Saturdays, my friend Lise and I spend the afternoon together.”
Grammar lessons included in A1 exercise
A2 French Writing Challenge
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Translate: “Here’s how I met Eric.”
Grammar lessons included in A2 exercise
B1 French Writing Challenge
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Translate: “One day, scientific progress will turn us into superheroes!”
Grammar lessons included in B1 exercise
B2 French Writing Challenge
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Translate: “My friends and I had been waiting for the new Star Wars for several decades!”
Grammar lessons included in B2 exercise
C1 French Writing Challenge
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Translate: “I’m going to explain what we’re expecting of you.”
Grammar lessons included in C1 exercise
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Comments: 5
Can you explain why se fouler was used in writing exercise A2 for twisted ankle instead of se tordre - and also the use of plusque parfait as the verb tense (rather than passe compose)?
Bonjour Jane !
Thank you very much for your useful feedback here: indeed tordre does mean "twisted", but I'm afraid we meant to write "sprained" here. Thanks to you, it's now been rectified.
As for the use of Le Plus-que-Parfait in the more advanced answer option (Il s'était foulé la cheville), the action of "spraining his ankle" happened before the moment of realisation which is itself already in the past (i.e. He had sprained his ankle): in French, you will therefore need to use the "past of the past", i.e. Le Plus-que-Parfait.
I hope that's helpful!
I, too, love the writing challenges and just whish you would make the old ones available online for later review or re-taking. However, the web interface doesn't yet work flawlessly. Sometimes, when I enter my text, the answer is already showing underneath. I guess you need to improve on that somewhat.
Bonjour Chris !
Thank you very much for your feedback: we're so happy you enjoy the writing challenges. As for the format, we are working on a new display, which great features such as being able to look at the whole text once completed, and also have access to the library of previous challenges! Please bear with us, it's on its way :)