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Vocabulaire — les quatre modules
Four modules covering the four things that decide whether a word comes out right: the preposition the word in front of it demands, the prefix that separates prévenir from revenir, the choice between near-synonyms, and the blocks that have to be stored whole. Each module opens with a lesson, then 600 questions across the suite in five formats.
Prépositions
160à, de, en, dans, par, pour — which little word goes in the slot
- Le régime du verbe — What the verb itself demands
- Situer dans l’espace et le temps — Place and time
- Les prépositions à sens multiple — One preposition, several jobs
- Autour du nom, et les blocs figés — Nouns, adjectives and fixed locutions
Verbes préfixés
140prévenir, revenir, parvenir, survenir — the families that look alike
- Les trois grandes familles — venir, tenir, mettre
- Prendre, porter, mener — Things and people travel differently
- Les autres familles et la logique du préfixe — Reading a verb you have never met
Synonymes et registre
140near-synonyms that are not interchangeable, and the three registers
- Le registre et la précision — Three heights, and the vague verbs to replace
- Choisir entre quasi-synonymes — Words that carve the world differently
- Contraires et intensité — Negative prefixes and the strength of the word
- Le mot juste et les pièges — Precision words, and the false friends
Structures et locutions
160collocations, word families, compounds, idioms — the word is not the unit
- Les blocs de base — Collocations and word families
- Mots composés et images — Compounds, and idioms whose literal reading is the trap
- Les grands verbes-supports — avoir, être, faire, prendre — and nominalisation
- Cohésion et champs du TEF — Connectors, and the set phrases of the five fields
How the modules work
Every module is one page: a lesson at the top, then the units below it. Answers are saved in the browser, so you can close the page and come back to the same unit.
A working order
- Prépositions first. It is the largest single source of errors, and every other module reuses the frames it teaches.
- Verbes préfixés next. Unit V7 gives you a way to read a verb you have never met, which pays off on the reading paper.
- Structures for the written test — collocations, nominalisation and the set phrases of the five fields the exam keeps returning to.
- Synonymes et registre last, once the frames are automatic and the choice is between words that are all grammatically possible.
Reading the explanations
Each explanation names the deciding feature — the verb that governs the slot, the prefix, the register, the noun the verb collocates with — and then says what would have to change in the sentence for the tempting answer to become correct. That second half is the part worth writing down.