📖LearnModule 10 · Lesson 16 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1 + B2 mastery, and the C1 bridgeUnit 4 · L'épreuve écrite
Lire la consigne
Module 10 of the free French course (CEFR B1 + B2 mastery, and the C1 bridge), lesson 16 of 30: . On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 16.
The words
French
English
Say it
rédiger
to write up
ray-dee-ZHAY
justifier
to give reasons for
zhews-tee-FYAY
environ
approximately
ah(n)-vee-ROH(n)
le maire
the mayor
luh MEHR
souligner la consigne
to underline the instruction
soo-lee-nyay lah koh(n)-SEEN-yuh
le destinataire
the recipient
luh dehs-tee-nah-TEHR
la longueur
the length
lah loh(n)-GUHR
perdre des points
to lose marks
pehrdr day PWA(n)
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La règle · The rule
More marks are lost to misread instructions than to bad French. The three verbs that matter: rédigez (write a full text), justifiez (give reasons), en 250 mots environ (and they do count).
Et aussi · And also
Underline the task word, the audience and the length before you write anything. Vous écrivez au maire de votre ville tells you the register as clearly as any grammar rule.
Attention · Watch out
rédigez means write a full text, justifiez means give reasons, en 250 mots environ sets the length. Underline the task word, the audience and the length before you write.
écrire — the table
je écris · tu écris · il/elle écrit · nous écrivons · vous écrivez · ils/elles écrivent
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with rédiger.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out écrire in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The French Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.