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Free French courses, level B1 (Intermediate)

You understand the main points of clear speech on familiar topics, tell a story, give your opinion with reasons and cope with most travel and work situations.

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What you can do at B1

You understand the main points of clear speech on familiar topics, tell a story, give your opinion with reasons and cope with most travel and work situations.

At B1, you master the conditional, relative pronouns, connectors and the structure of a short argued text. It is the level often required for citizenship.

Exam lessons at level B1

Each levelled course (TCF, TEF) has one full lesson per level.

  1. B1

    From the course · TCF Canada Listening: A1 to C2

    B1 · Conversations: intentions and simple opinions

    Understand what a speaker wants (to suggest, refuse, complain, advise) and what they think.

    14 min10 activities
  2. B1

    From the course · TCF Canada Reading: A1 to C2

    B1 · Short articles: main idea and reformulation

    Read short articles and letters, find the main idea and recognise it when the answer uses other words.

    14 min10 activities
  3. B1

    From the course · TCF Canada Writing: A1 to C2

    B1 · Tell a story and link your ideas

    Narrate an experience in the past with the passé composé and the imparfait, and organise it with time connectors.

    16 min9 activities
  4. B1

    From the course · TCF Canada Speaking: A1 to C2

    B1 · Role-play: ask the right questions

    Prepare task 2: you get information from the examiner by asking varied, polite and relevant questions.

    15 min9 activities
  5. B1

    From the course · TCF Canada Grammar & Vocabulary: A1 to C2

    B1 · Conditional, relative pronouns, y and en

    Make hypotheses and polite requests, link sentences with qui, que, où, dont, and use y and en.

    14 min9 activities
  6. B1

    From the course · TEF Canada & TEFAQ Listening: A1 to C2

    B1 · Conversations at services and at work

    Follow conversations at the bank, with a landlord or between colleagues: the problem, the solution, the decision.

    14 min9 activities
  7. B1

    From the course · TEF Canada Reading: A1 to C2

    B1 · Workplace emails and letters

    Understand professional emails, complaint letters and official replies: the request, the reason, the answer.

    14 min9 activities
  8. B1

    From the course · TEF Canada Writing: A1 to C2

    B1 · Narrate an event in the past

    Learn to tell an event like a journalist: third person, past tenses, chronology, witnesses.

    15 min8 activities
  9. B1

    From the course · TEF Canada & TEFAQ Speaking: A1 to C2

    B1 · Section A: ten varied, polite questions

    Lead the section A phone call: about ten relevant questions in 5 minutes, varied forms and polite register.

    15 min8 activities
  10. B1

    From the course · TEF Canada Grammar & Vocabulary: A1 to C2

    B1 · Pronouns and polite requests

    Combine pronouns (le lui, m’en, y), and make requests with the polite conditional, at work and with services.

    14 min8 activities

Courses at level B1