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Organiser par idée
Module 15 of the free French course (CEFR C2 mastery — the capstone), lesson 2 of 30: The rule that decides the mark: organize by IDEA. 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 2.
The words
French
English
Say it
la grille
the grid
lah GREEY
écrire à partir des lignes
to write from the rows
ay-kreer ah pahr-teer day LEENY
une idée par paragraphe
one idea per paragraph
ewn ee-day pahr pah-rah-GRAHF
résumer quatre fois
to summarize four times
ray-zew-may kahtr FWAH
la colonne
the column
lah koh-LOHN
la ligne
the row
lah LEENY
toucher un point
to touch on a point
too-shay uh(n) PWA(n)
décisif
decisive
day-see-ZEEF
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
The rule that decides the mark: organize by IDEA, never by document. A plan that reads "text one says, text two says" has summarized four times and synthesized nothing.
Et aussi · And also
Build a grid instead — ideas down the side, texts across the top — and write from the rows. Each paragraph then carries one idea and cites whichever texts touch it.
Attention · Watch out
Organize by IDEA, never by document: a plan that reads texte 1 dit…, texte 2 dit… has summarized four times and synthesized nothing. la ligne is the row and la colonne the column — write from the rows.
résoudre — the table
je résous · tu résous · il/elle résout · nous résolvons · vous résolvez · ils/elles résolvent
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with la grille.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out résoudre 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.