Comprehension

FLE exercises

Bonjour de France offers various news documents (authentic and didactic) in written and recorded formats, a number of exercises to help improve your understanding of French, and tools for self-assessment. Feel free to test your knowledge!

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Comprehension exercises

Understanding a feedback questionnaire
A1

Understanding a feedback questionnaire

Tonight you'll go to a restaurant with your friends... Carefully read the questionnaire and choose the best answer.

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Understanding a article: Meals of the youth
B2

Understanding a article: Meals of the youth

Youth and junk food, reality or myth? With this written comprehension exercise, you can make your own opinion.

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Understanding an interview on agriculture and the GMO, level B2
B2

Understanding an interview on agriculture and the GMO, level B2

Following the news and practicing your French is possible with Bonjour de France... It's your turn!

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Reading comprehension exercise: The bio sector, level B2
B2

Reading comprehension exercise: The bio sector, level B2

The production and consumption of organic products, here the subject of this series of written comprehension exercises, level B2.

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Understanding a French quizz, level C1
C1

Understanding a French quizz, level C1

From the good health of the body and that of the mind, what are the underlying mechanisms that govern us?

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Understanding an advert of an online sales catalogue
A2

Understanding an advert of an online sales catalogue

Go shopping online and understand the information contained in an advertisement... here's an exercise to test your skills.

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Understanding a literary text B2
C1

Understanding a literary text B2

Bonjour de France has prepared a comprehension exercise from a literary text for you.

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Calculating in French
A1

Calculating in French

Today Ludovic is writing a mathematics exam. He needs your help! In this exercise, you'll use French in a scientific context.

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Understanding and analysing a poem, level B2
C1

Understanding and analysing a poem, level B2

Studying a poem by Émile Verhaeren, a Belgian poet and playwright, such joy! It's the lexical and semantic field of the city that's explored...

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Reading and understanding a text: Fashion Week in Paris
A2

Reading and understanding a text: Fashion Week in Paris

Yes, yes, in France we are colonized, we speak "Franglish": "La Fashion Week" haute couture spring-summer 2012 begins today in Paris...

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Listening comprehension: how to accommodate everyone B2
B2

Listening comprehension: how to accommodate everyone B2

Is it possible to accommodate everyone? This is the question Augustine Legrand, co-founder of The Children of Don Quixote Association, answers.

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