Table des matières

Part 1 Basic Information

• 1) Typical mistake: on the 16^th of january 2006
• 2) Use of upper-level letters after figures: 16^th
• 3) Word order - where to put the date in a sentence
• 4) Exceptions
• 5) This, next, last
• 6) Some idiomatic expressions

• 1) The article
• 2) Capital letters
• 3) Verb tenses

• 1) Time and days
• 2) Geographical place-names
• 3) People’s titles
• 4) Institutions
• 5) Political parties and political groups
• 6) Ethnic groups
• 7) Religions
• 8) Personal adjectives
• 9) Titles of books, plays, films and songs
• 10) Historical events

• 1) Inverted commas
• 2) Direct speech
• 3) Don’t, doesn’t, it’s, its
• 4) Commas in a list of words
• 5) Commas to separate extra information

Part 2 The Structure of the Sentence

Part 3 Vocabulary

• 1) Useful rules
• Capital letters
• Adjectives
• Singular and plural place-names
• Spelling
• 2) Using ‘the’
• 3) Your position on a map
• 4) How to translate situé
• 5) French expressions
• 6) English expressions

• 1) Translating titles of organisations
• 2) Do not forget the capital letters for each important word of a title.
• 3) Using ‘the’with acronyms
• 4) British government acronyms

• 1) How to write figures
• 2) A figure or a date can be used as an adjective
• 3) How to translate de with numbers
• 4) Using ‘the’with numbers
• 5) How to translate sur with numbers
• 6) How to translate dizaine
• 7) Vocabulary used with figures
• 8) Ranking: the first, second, third etc
• 9) Singular and plural currencies

• 1) The Noun - la mort, le décès, la mortalité - death, deaths
• 2) The Verb - mourir, décéder - to die - died - died - dying
• 3) The Adjective - mort/morte - dead, and its opposite: live (pronounced laIv)
• 4) Some idiomatic expressions using the word ‘dead’
• 5) Related adjectives
• 6) ‘Dead’and ‘Alive’

• Acteur
• Adhésion, adhérer
• Il s’agit de
• Amener
• Auteur
• Axe
• Bilan
• Cadre
• Chantier
• Chargé de
• Comprendre
• Compter
• Connaître
• Délai
• Désigner
• Détenir
• Direction
• Droit
• Économique
• Emprunter
• S’engager
• Enjeux
• Envoyé
• Établir
• Évident
• Fonction/en fonction de
• Foyer
• Ignorer
• S’impliquer
• Important
• Installer
• Instance
• Joindre
• Manquer
• Mener
• Multiplier
• Notamment
• Offrir
• Parcours
• Passer
• Permettre
• Planète
• Préciser
• Premier et deuxième
• Prévoir
• Profitable
• Proposer
• Provoquer
• Réaliser
• Relier
• Répondre
• Responsable
• Rythme
• Toucher
• Vivre

• 1) Basic guidelines for using ‘strong’and ‘important’in English
• 2) Examples in English using ‘strong’and ‘important’
• 3) Examples in French
• 4) Possible vocabulary for translating fort and important

Part 4 Common Problems with Verbs

• 1) Past simple or present perfect?
• 2) How to translate the French conditional
• Uncertainty – a stylistic use of the conditional in French
• 3) The French use of present in the past - Le présent de narration
• 4) The French use of plus-que-parfait - past perfect or past simple?
• 5) The French use of the present participle
• 6) Past participles

• 1) To say
• 2) To tell
• How to use ‘to tell’
• Other uses of ‘to tell’
• 3) To Ask
• 4) Other verbs used after direct speech
• 5) Verbs of speaking with emotion

• Souhaiter - a desire for the future
• Another use of ‘to wish’ - to express regret

• ‘Compare to’or ‘compare with’?
• Consister en

Part 5 Common Problems with Prepositions

• 1) Prepositions with time
• 2) Repetition of prepositions in French
• 3) Prepositions with or without movement
• 4) Prepositions with place
• 5) Phrasal verbs - les verbes à particules
• 6) Prepositions followed by a verb
• 7) Advice on word order with prepositions
• 8) Prepositions alone

• Other examples using de

• 1) Jusqu’à with time
• 2) Jusqu’à with time or figures
• 3) Jusqu’à with geographical location

• 1) How to translate avant
• 2) How to translate devant

Part 6 Other Problems

• 1) Particular and general
• 2) Abstract nouns
• 3) ‘The’with an adjective
• 4) Nouns with numbers
• 5) Titles in the press

• Translating celui de or celle de
• Translating celui qui/celle qui

• 1) Examples using ‘whose’
• 2) Examples using ‘including’
• 3) Other examples:

• 1) si is translated as ‘if’ in ordinary conditional structures
• 2) si can also be translated as ‘while’or ‘although’
• 3) si can be translated as ‘whether’
• 4) sauf si can be translated as ‘unless’as well as ‘except if’.

• 1) Negative verbs and avoiding ni… ni
• 2) Negative with nouns or pronouns
• 3) Negative infinitive verbs

• 1) General statements
• 2) How to translate un/une des - ‘one of the… ’
• 3) Person/persons/people - less/fewer