Orthography & Agreement

Les décisions qu'il a prises. Say it aloud: the agreement is completely inaudible, and it has been inaudible every time you have said a sentence of that shape for the last five years. Nobody could have corrected you, because in speech there was nothing to correct. On paper the -es is either there or it is not, and its absence is a marked error in the accuracy column of the grid — which is why an immersed speaker's first written mock so often scores below their spoken level.

This track handles everything French writes and no longer says. Accents that change a word rather than decorate it. Verb endings that are silent but obligatory. The homophone families that catch every learner and most natives — a/à, ses/ces/c'est/s'est, ou/où — worked in real sentences rather than in isolation, because the difficulty was never identifying the pair, it was noticing that you were in one. And written agreement across the noun phrase and back through the past participle, corrected in whole passages so the error appears in the wild the way it will on the day.

The method matters as much as the content, and it is the re-reading protocol: sweep for one error family at a time. A single pass looking for everything finds almost nothing, because the attention that spots a missing accent is not the attention that spots an agreement — so you run a pass for accents, then a pass for accords, then a pass for verb endings, in that order, and each one is fast because it is narrow. The track ends on the two exam-trap reviews, the twenty errors that recur most often in B2 written work, so the protocol has a checklist to sweep against.