📖LearnModule 11 · Lesson 30 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C1, first halfUnit 6 · Argumenter avec nuance
Le sommet du sommet
Module 11 of the free French course (CEFR C1, first half), lesson 30 of 30: Look back at Module 1 of the Basic band: bonjour was the whole of your French. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 30.
The words
French
English
Say it
le sommet
the summit
luh soh-MEH
la synthèse
the synthesis (exam task)
lah sa(n)-TEHZ
l'essai argumentémasculine — the article elides to l'
the argued essay
leh-say ahr-gew-mah(n)-TAY
vous y êtes presque
you are almost there
voo zee et PRESK
maîtriser
to master
meh-tree-ZAY
la maîtrise
the mastery
lah meh-TREEZ
depuis le début
since the beginning
duh-pwee luh day-BEW
la fierté
the pride
lah fyehr-TAY
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
Look back at Module 1 of the Basic band: bonjour was the whole of your French. Today you choose a register, grant a point before you turn it, report what someone said without quoting them, and read a novel in the passé simple. That is the first half of C1 — written in your own hand.
Et aussi · And also
Module 2 completes C1: the synthèse and the argued essay at length. Vous y êtes presque — the view from here is worth the climb.
Attention · Watch out
vous y êtes presque: the y stands for the place — there. la fierté (pride) is the noun; fier is the adjective and agrees: fier, fière.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with le sommet.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 30 in Module 11 are the written half of this page.
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.