📖LearnModule 14 · Lesson 30 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C2, continuedUnit 6 · Écrire long
Le bilan — C2, presque entier
Module 14 of the free French course (CEFR C2, continued), 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
il ne reste qu'un barreau
there is one rung left
eel nuh rehst kuh(n) bah-ROH
le barreau
the rung
luh bah-ROH
la dernière étape
the last stage
lah dehr-nyehr ay-TAHP
j'ai fini le Module 4
I finished Module 4
zhay fee-nee luh moh-dewl KAHTR
tout à la fois
all at once
too tah lah FWAH
l'échelle entièrefeminine — the article elides to l'
the whole scale
lay-shehl ah(n)-TYEHR
mettre à l'épreuve
to put to the test
mehtr ah lay-PRUHV
presque entier
nearly whole
prehsk ah(n)-TYAY
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 across the whole register scale on purpose, hear an idiom as one word, read a sentence built the way written French builds them, follow a legal or medical document, know where the two languages fail to meet, and write the three long forms.
Et aussi · And also
One module remains: the capstone, where all fifteen books of the ladder are put to work at once. Il ne reste qu'un barreau — there is one rung left.
Attention · Watch out
il ne reste qu'un barreau: ne… que means only, not a negation — there IS one rung left. le barreau is a ladder's rung; the same word names the bar, the legal profession, which a C2 reader will meet.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with il ne reste qu'un barreau.
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 14 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.