French · For teachers
Every French printable, chapter by chapter
The whole French curriculum in one place, mapped to its 33 chapters and 904 lessons. Each lesson lists its downloads inline - worksheets with answer keys, infographics and PDFs - and each chapter's words fold out into their own per-word printable sets, so you can open and print any sheet for a class without hunting through the site.
Chapter 1 · Foundations
Chapter page →- Introduction to FrenchIntroduction
Read this first. The orientation: how French works, what it costs in hours, what the apps get wrong, and how to use this curriculum.
- First words for sentencesVocabulary
10 words · A pronoun, a few verbs, the things they act on. Enough to build a real French sentence by the end.
A dozen fixed everyday phrases - bonjour, merci, je m'appelle - so you can greet a real French speaker before you have learned any grammar.
French runs subject, verb, object, like English - and never drops the subject: I eat is je mange, never a bare mange.
- Ne...pas: saying noGrammar
Two words wrap the verb: ne before it, pas after it. Je ne mange pas - and ne...rien, ne...jamais, ne...plus work the same way.
Raise your voice, put est-ce que in front, or swap verb and pronoun: tu parles français ?, est-ce que tu parles français ?, parles-tu français ?
- More people, more wordsVocabulary
17 words · Subject pronouns for everyone else, plus the rest of the vocabulary you need for your first story.
- The sounds of FrenchPronunciation
The r, the u, and the nasals - the four sounds that make French sound French, with the mouth shown from the inside.
- French articlesVocabulary
8 words · The definite, indefinite, and partitive articles in one place: le / la / les, un / une / des, du / de. The next two lessons cover when to use which, including the partitive that English doesn't have.
The and a, in both genders and the plural - and why le and la shrink to l' before a vowel: l'eau, l'homme.
Some bread is du pain: wherever English could say some, French needs du, de la or des. Je mange pain is never French.
- Dinner at Léa'sConversation
Eight lines with Léa, who has asked you round to eat.
- Your first story in FrenchGraded-reader story
A real letter to Father Christmas, with a big brother's additions, built from the words you've just learned. The two new words are glossed at the top.
- Arcade reviewReview games
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
Word printables
Per-word sheets33 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
Chapter 2 · Noun gender: le or la
Chapter page →- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 11-20Vocabulary
11 words · ranks 11-20
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- The pronoun house: who does whatVocabulary
9 words · All nine subject pronouns in one place - je to elles. Frequency scatters them; this house keeps the whole set together.
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 21-30Vocabulary
14 words · ranks 21-30
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- The KiloKombat dojoLesson
Learn 10 new words faster than a rival. Spar the training partner to earn your grams, then challenge a real person - winner takes a tooth.
- Words 31-40Vocabulary
14 words · ranks 31-40
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- The number house: zéro to neufVocabulary
10 words · Zero to nine in one sitting. Watch six and neuf: their last sound changes with the word that follows.
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 41-50Vocabulary
14 words · ranks 41-50
- Noun gender: le or laGrammar
Why every noun is le or la, why you learn the article with the noun, and how the gender spreads to every word around it.
A handful of endings predict gender: -tion, -té and -ure are feminine, -age, -ment and -eau masculine. Then the famous exceptions: la plage, l'eau.
Forty members - 'les immortels' - have watched over French since 1635, and they publish their own dictionary. Look up a word you already know.
- Words 51-60Vocabulary
14 words · ranks 51-60
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Number house two: the teensVocabulary
7 words · Dix to seize are words of their own; from seventeen French simply adds, dix-sept is ten-seven. Keep quinze and seize apart.
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 61-70Vocabulary
14 words · ranks 61-70
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 71-80Vocabulary
14 words · ranks 71-80
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Number house three: vingt to centVocabulary
9 words · The tens, then France's famous oddity: seventy is sixty-ten, eighty is four twenties, ninety is four-twenty-ten.
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 81-90Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 81-90
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 91-100Vocabulary
9 words · ranks 91-100
Add -s, say nothing - le/les and un/des carry the plural in speech.
The nine pronouns French never drops, when tu turns into vous, and on, the everyday word for we.
- tu or vous?Mistake clinic
Not a grammar question. Getting it wrong is a social mistake, not a linguistic one.
Matching this and that to gender, number and the vowel rule - the agreement drill, hands-on, before the forms fossilise wrong.
The seventeen number words to learn, then tens plus units all the way to 69 - with the et in vingt et un.
France counts in twenties: seventy is sixty-ten, eighty is four twenties, ninety is four-twenty-ten. Wait for the whole number.
No un before cent or mille, mille never takes an s, and million and milliard are nouns: un million de personnes.
The four verbs French cannot do without, j'ai faim and j'ai vingt ans, the modals je peux, je veux, je dois - and je sais.
The worldwide network of French classes and culture, in over 130 countries - there is almost certainly one near you. Go and see.
- TonightConversation
Eight lines with Théo, making plans for tonight.
- Story milestone: top 100 wordsGraded-reader story
Written inside the top 100 words, all of them taught by now; any new word is listed at the top of the story.
- Arcade reviewReview games
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
Word printables
Per-word sheets97 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
