17 LESSONS
TEF Canada grammar course
Work through the lessons in order, or choose the skill you want to strengthen. Each lesson ends with a checkpoint and an explanation.
Put the verb forms into practice in the French conjugation lab, with free être and avoir exercises.
- 01
Choose articles and make agreement visible
Learn nouns with their articles, then make the words around them agree.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 02
Pouvoir, vouloir, devoir and savoir
Explain what is possible, what you want, what is required and what you know how to do.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 03
Passé composé: tell what happened
Build a past event with an auxiliary and a past participle.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 04
Imparfait: set the scene
Separate background, habits and unfolding actions from events that move a story forward.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 05
Make plans with the two futures
Use futur proche and futur simple to explain plans, predictions and conditions.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 06
Be tactful and explore possibilities
Use the conditional for polite requests, suggestions and hypothetical situations.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 07
Use the subjunctive where it earns its place
Express necessity, wishes and concession with useful, controlled structures.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 08
Explain what had already happened
Use plus-que-parfait to make the order of past events explicit.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 09
COD, COI, y and en without guessing
Replace a repeated phrase by checking the verb construction first.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 10
Connect ideas with qui, que, dont and où
Build longer sentences that remain easy to follow.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 11
Compare options and explain trade-offs
Turn an opinion into a precise comparison.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 12
Cause, consequence, contrast and concession
Choose a connector because of the relationship between ideas.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 13
Place, duration and verb prepositions
Learn the small words that determine location, timing and grammatical structure.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 14
Past participle agreement that protects meaning
Check the auxiliary, the object and its position before changing an ending.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 15
Read and write the passive voice
Focus on the event or affected person when the actor is secondary.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 16
This one, yours and theirs
Use demonstratives and possessives to compare without repeating every noun.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint
- 17
Catch the French errors you can actually fix
Build a short revision routine for accents, homophones and adjective placement.
20 min · Premium lesson · Lesson and checkpoint