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Le bilan — la première moitié du C2
Module 13 of the free French course (CEFR C2, first half), lesson 30 of 30: Look back at Lesson 1. 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
la première moitié
the first half
lah pruh-myehr mwah-TYAY
ce que les Français lisent
what French readers read
suh kuh lay frah(n)-seh LEEZ
j'ai fini le Module 3
I finished Module 3
zhay fee-nee luh moh-dewl TRWAH
l'extrêmemasculine — the article elides to l'
the extreme
lehks-TREHM
le registre professionnel
the professional register
luh ruh-zheestr proh-feh-syoh-NEHL
la forme longue
the long form
lah form LOH(n)G
sans effort apparent
with no apparent effort
sah(n) zeh-for ah-pah-RAH(n)
aisé
easy
eh-ZAY
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 Lesson 1. You now move emphasis by rebuilding a sentence, assert something without owning it, use the connectors that have no English translation, name the parts of an argument, hear irony and understatement, and read an essay for its turns.
Et aussi · And also
Module 4 takes the other half of C2: the extremes of register, fixed expressions, professional languages, and the long written forms. Vous lisez maintenant ce que les Français lisent — you now read what French readers read.
Attention · Watch out
aisé means easy or well-off depending on the noun: un texte aisé à lire, une famille aisée. sans effort apparent is the C2 aim — apparent, because the effort is real.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with la première moitié.
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 13 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.