C1
French C1: Proficient
At C1 the question is no longer whether something is correct but what it does. Whether a piece of advice lands as an instruction or as an offer is not a matter of grammar any more: both sentences are correct, and only the tone separates them.
Then come the structures you can dodge in conversation and meet everywhere on the page: inversion, participle clauses, nouns built out of verbs, the whole frame of written language.
Tenses and if-sentences1
If-sentences
1Verbs: modals, subjunctive1
Can, must, want
1Spelling, sound and style3
Fine points and style
3Word lists at level C1
Lists: 98 · words: 3995
- Employment law and the workplace
- Courts and procedure
- Contract and liability
- Bookkeeping and the balance sheet
- Tax and duties
- Setting up and self-employment
- At the pharmacy
- At the dentist
- Ophthalmology
- Physiotherapy
- Emergency medical services
- Laboratory medicine
- Electrical engineering and the grid
- Mechanical engineering and production
- Quality assurance
- Pets
- Hotel operations from the inside
- Seafaring and the port
- Cycling
- Networking and security
- Optics
- Streaming and subscriptions
- Woodland and timber
- Hunting and game
Reading texts at level C1
- Le train de nuit
- Cuisiner sans le goût
- L’arbre du jardin partagé
- Le train ou l’avion ?
- L’entretien en cuisine
- La façade
- Demande de télétravail
Sentences from this level’s topics
Il est interdit de fumer dans l’enceinte.Smoking is forbidden on the premises.
Pour peu qu’on lui laisse du temps, il trouvera la solution.If you only give him some time, he will find the solution.
Peut-être aurons-nous de la chance.Perhaps we shall be lucky.
À la lecture du rapport, il a changé d’avis.On reading the report, he changed his mind.