You can enter this workbook through any path. Public messages often ask for an updated fact. Service scenes ask for a final accepted result. Personal messages need an action note or a speaker map. Message logic asks you to preserve the links between people, objects, and events.
The exercises do not provide recordings. First use a written model to prepare your attention. Then choose a suitable French video and carry the same task into it. A good clip need not use the same words. It needs a similar relationship that you can test: a correction, a request, a condition, or a sequence.
01 / Public messages
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.
02 / Service scenes
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.
03 / Personal messages
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.
04 / Message logic
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.
Choose by the error you made
If you recognised the place but chose the wrong stop, try public messages. If you wrote an offered item as a purchased item, try service scenes. If you lost the sender’s request, try personal messages. If you assigned a pronoun to the wrong person, try message logic.
Use the full library to find a particular scene. Use the glossary when a term in an answer key is unfamiliar. You do not need to learn every term before you begin.
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Jibber Jabber. “French listening tasks by topic.” French Listening Atelier. Updated 9 November 2026. https://frenchcomprehensibleinput.com/topics/.