Out in the world
Use a short note or route sketch to turn a public message into a practical decision. These tasks focus on changed platforms, unavailable stops, opening hours, weather plans, and landmarks.
- Catch a platform change in a French station announcement
How can I practise a French train announcement with a changed platform?
- Find the stop that a French bus will skip
How do I understand an exception in a French bus announcement?
- Read the exception in French shop opening hours
How can I catch a one-day exception in spoken French opening hours?
- Choose the backup plan in a French weather message
How do I follow a French plan that depends on the weather?
- Follow French directions using landmarks
How can I follow French directions without remembering every street name?
At the counter
Track offers, requests, and accepted changes separately. These exercises ask you to recover a final order or booking without treating every mentioned option as chosen.
- Update a café order after a French substitution
How do I follow a changed café order in French?
- Check a French reservation without mixing the fields
How do I check the date, name, and party size in a French reservation?
- Catch a corrected appointment time in French
How do I distinguish an old appointment time from a new one in French?
- Check whether a French discount applies
How do I hear the condition attached to a French discount?
- Choose between two options in a French conversation
How do I follow a French comparison without losing which option wins?
Between people
Extract a request, identify an object, or keep two opinions apart. Each exercise gives you a different way to note the meaning of a short personal exchange.
- Extract the action from a short French voice message
What should I note from a short French voice message?
- Identify a lost object from a French description
How can I follow a French lost-property description?
- Follow French delivery instructions with a fallback
How do I understand where to leave a parcel in French?
- Recognise a polite refusal in a French invitation
How can I tell whether a French reply accepts an invitation?
- Keep two French speakers’ opinions separate
How do I follow disagreement in a short French conversation?
Follow the thread
Follow the links between sentences: who a pronoun refers to, what happens first, and which detail a speaker corrects. The goal is a coherent message rather than isolated word recognition.
- Track who and what French pronouns refer to
How can I keep track of French pronouns in a short conversation?
- Tell a French request from a question about ability
When does tu peux mean a request in everyday French?
- Put French recipe instructions in the right order
How can I follow the order of actions in a French recipe clip?
- Separate a quoted request from the messenger’s plan
How do I track who gave an instruction in French?
- Spot a speaker’s self-correction in French
How do I update my understanding when a French speaker corrects themself?
Glossary
Glossary index: short definitions for the answer keys.
- Referent: The person, object, or idea that a word such as a pronoun points to.
- Condition: A requirement that decides whether a stated action or result applies.
- Self-correction: A change that a speaker makes to their own earlier words.
- Inference: A conclusion that you draw from a message rather than a fact stated directly in it.
Resource guides
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