
Advance your French from intermediate to advanced by mastering the four CEFR skills—listening, reading, writing, and speaking—through 100% French lessons with subtitles.
Master the past in French through practical grammar and activities, with written and oral practice, vocabulary enrichment, and improved pronunciation in a video-based course aligned to the CEFR.
Follow the course in a logical progression and complete videos in order. Rewatch as needed, pause to understand the rule, rely on on-screen information, and enable subtitles to aid memorization.
Bring a paper and pencil to take notes and write dictation sentences, and a pair of headphones to hear the sounds; ask questions about grammar, vocabulary, or exercises as needed.
Learn how to form and use the passé composé, the second and most important past tense, to recount events that happened during a trip.
Master French pronunciation by distinguishing and producing the sounds [e] and [ɛ], tailored for intermediate learners.
Enhance your listening comprehension in intermediate French by listening to a document twice and then answering a quiz centered on a romantic encounter.
Enhance your intermediate French vocabulary with terms for la rencontre amoureuse, aligned with the course focus on romantic encounter language.
Practice and perfect your French through a dictation exercise focused on a romantic encounter, suitable for intermediate learners.
Learn the plus-que-parfait, formed like passé composé with avoir or être and a past participle, conjugating in imparfait, noting agreement with être for pronominal verbs and movement/state verbs, plus practice.
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If you have reached this page, you probably want to learn French, not English! Bonne nouvelle, this course is 100% in French, mostly with videos, created and presented by Anne Le Grand, an experienced native teacher.
Whatever your objective or level in French, mastering the past tenses is vital to communicate.
In this course you will learn how to use the 3 main past tenses in French: the imperfect, the passé-composé and the plus-que-parfait. You will be able to evoke memories, speak about work experiences and understand news stories, or just express past events accurately.
Master each tense individually in context and learn how to use them together in this French immersive course.
Feel free to watch the introduction section and the free video previews to see how the course is structured.
Each section covers a specific use of the past in French and allows you to easily develop the four basic linguistic abilities: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Introduction: I will present you the key points of the section in a short video (free preview)
Grammar lecture: learn and practice a specific grammar function with talking head videos and quizzes, to speed up and consolidate the process of learning French grammar
Listening comprehension lecture: listen to an audio recording focusing on the section's grammar point and validate your understanding with a quiz.
Reading comprehension lecture: read a text focusing on the section's grammar point and validate your understanding with a quiz.
Vocabulary lecture: Learn 10 key expressions you can easily include in your spoken French like a native speaker, followed by a quiz.
Writing lecture (dictation): boost your writing skills and learn ready to use French structures.
In Section 5, you will learn how to differentiate and pronounce the sounds [e] and [ɛ] (é/ è) via an entertaining phonetic video and exercises.