📖LearnModule 15 · Lesson 5 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C2 mastery — the capstoneUnit 1 · La synthèse de documents
Relire une synthèse
Module 15 of the free French course (CEFR C2 mastery — the capstone), lesson 5 of 30: Three checks, and they are specific to this task. 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 5.
The words
French
English
Say it
l'adjectif d'opinionmasculine — the article elides to l'
the opinion adjective
lahd-zhehk-teef doh-pee-NYOH(n)
sans avoir vu les documents
without having seen the documents
sah(n) zah-vwahr vew lay doh-kew-MAH(n)
la vérification
the check
lah vay-ree-fee-kah-SYOH(n)
citer au lieu de synthétiser
to quote instead of synthesizing
see-tay oh lyuh duh sa(n)-tay-tee-ZAY
synthétiser
to synthesize
sa(n)-tay-tee-ZAY
propre à la tâche
specific to the task
prohpr ah lah TAHSH
la tâche
the task
lah TAHSH
facile à suivre
easy to follow
fah-seel ah SWEEVR
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
Three checks, and they are specific to this task. One: is there a je, a selon moi, an opinion adjective anywhere? Two: does every paragraph carry an idea rather than a text?
Et aussi · And also
Three: could a reader who has not seen the documents follow it? If the answer to the third is no, the synthesis has quoted rather than synthesized, and it will read as a reading list.
Attention · Watch out
Three checks: no je or selon moi, one idea per paragraph, and could a reader who has not seen the documents follow it? citer au lieu de synthétiser is the failure the third check catches — quoting is not synthesizing.
relever — the table
je relève · tu relèves · il/elle relève · nous relevons · vous relevez · ils/elles relèvent
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with l'adjectif d'opinion.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out relever 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.