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Coffee Break French Level 2

This is Season 2 of our free French podcast, for learners who’ve finished Level 1. Over 40 lessons you’ll build on the basics and move from the present tense to the past, the future and the conditional.

Level 2A2–B140 lessonsWith teacher Mark and learner Anna

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Part 1 · Lessons 1 to 10

The present tense

Use regular and reflexive verbs to talk about your daily routine, make arrangements, ask questions and describe things.

  1. 1The present tense
  2. 2Daily Routine
  3. 3Using reflexive verbs in the present tense
  4. 4Using the present tense to make arrangements
  5. 5Saying what you are going to do
  6. 6Constructing questions and looking at avoir and être
  7. 7A review of regular and irregular verbs
  8. 8Adjectives: colours and nationalities
  9. 9Adjectives which come before a noun
  10. 10End-of-unit quiz

Part 2 · Lessons 11 to 20

Talking about the past

Say what you’re going to do, then talk about the past with the perfect tense, using avoir and être, and learn to say “this” and “that”.

  1. 11Talking about going to do something
  2. 12The negative of the immediate future
  3. 13The perfect tense
  4. 14The perfect tense continued
  5. 15The perfect tense with irregular verbs
  6. 16Verbs which form the perfect tense with être as the auxiliary verb
  7. 17More verbs which form the perfect tense with être
  8. 18Reflexive verbs in the perfect tense
  9. 19“This”, “that”, “these” and “those”
  10. 20Review of the perfect tense

Part 3 · Lessons 21 to 31

More tenses, and getting around

Learn the pronouns y and en, the imperfect, and qui and que, then take a taxi, hire a car, make phone calls and use modal verbs.

  1. 21Looking at the pronouns y and en
  2. 22Introducing the imperfect tense
  3. 23More on the imperfect tense
  4. 24Uses of the imperfect tense
  5. 25Relative pronouns: qui and que
  6. 26Avant de and venir de
  7. 27After having done something
  8. 28Getting a taxi
  9. 29Hiring a car
  10. 30Making a phone call in French
  11. 31Use of modal verbs

Part 4 · Lessons 32 to 40

Bringing it together

Review the grammar so far, and meet the conditional, the future and the pluperfect along the way.

  1. 32Grammar review
  2. 33Grammar review: “Do you fancy eating with us?”
  3. 34Grammar review: “We are going to make some progress”
  4. 35Grammar review: “We trust you!”
  5. 36The conditional: “Shall we use the tu form?”
  6. 37The future tense: “They're up to something!”
  7. 38The pluperfect tense: “I had never tasted it”
  8. 39Grammar review: “We're not going to argue again”
  9. 40Grammar review: “A very pleasant evening”

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