This set mixes the four skills from reading for meaning: finding a detail, inferring a word, separating opinion from fact, and checking evidence. The questions run from easier to harder, and every answer is worked out inside the hidden panel. All the texts are original.
Cover the answer, write your own, underline the supporting words in the text, then open the solution. Aim to understand why an answer is right, not only whether you matched it.
Text A
La fête du village a lieu le dernier dimanche de juin sur la place de l’église. Il y a un concert à 15 heures et un feu d’artifice à 22 heures. L’entrée est gratuite.
1. À quelle heure est le concert?
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À 15 heures. The question word is quelle heure, so look for a time. The text gives two times, and concert labels the first one. 22 heures belongs to the fireworks.
2. Où a lieu la fête?
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Sur la place de l’église. Où asks for a place. Stop after the place, and do not add the date.
3. Combien coûte l’entrée?
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Rien: l’entrée est gratuite (free). Combien normally leads to a number, but here the number is zero, stated as gratuite.
Text B
Mathis a perdu son sac au parc hier après-midi. Il y avait dedans son téléphone, un livre et une bouteille d’eau. Il a téléphoné à la police, mais son frère a trouvé le sac devant la porte ce soir.
4. Qu’est-ce que Mathis a perdu?
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Son sac. The phone, book and bottle were inside the bag. They are not what he lost, so they are not the answer.
5. Qui a trouvé le sac, et où?
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Son frère, devant la porte. The question has two parts, so the answer needs two: qui (the brother) and où (in front of the door). The police did not find it, even though Mathis called them.
Text C and a word to infer
6. Le week-end dernier, nous avons fait une randonnée en montagne. Le sentier était glissant, alors nous avons marché lentement. What does glissant most likely mean?
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Slippery. The link word alors shows that walking slowly was the result of the path being glissant. People slow down on a slippery path. The word family also helps: glisser means to slide.
7. Je suis rentré épuisé après le match: je me suis couché tout de suite et j’ai dormi dix heures. What does épuisé mean?
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Exhausted. The clues are going straight to bed and sleeping ten hours. Nothing in the sentence suggests happiness or hunger.
8. Ma tante travaille dans une librairie, donc elle vend des livres neufs toute la journée. Where does the aunt work? Explain why “library” is a risky guess.
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In a bookshop. Librairie is a false friend, because a library is une bibliothèque. The sentence also says she sells new books, which fits a shop and not a lending library.
Text D
Le restaurant de la gare propose un menu à douze euros. Pour Julie, la cuisine est délicieuse, mais son père trouve le service trop lent.
9. Quel est le prix du menu?
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Douze euros (12 euros). This is a stated detail with a figure. Nobody’s view is involved.
10. Que pense le père de Julie? Is délicieuse a detail or an opinion, and whose?
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The father thinks the service is too slow (trop lent). Délicieuse is an opinion, and it is Julie’s, introduced by pour Julie. The father’s view is a different one, so do not mix the two.
Text E
Chloé a deux frères. Le plus âgé, Paul, a seize ans et il joue au football. Le plus jeune, Louis, a neuf ans et il préfère les jeux vidéo. Chloé, elle, a douze ans et elle déteste le sport.
11. Supported, contradicted or not stated? (a) “Chloé est la plus jeune de la famille.” (b) “Louis joue au football.”
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(a) Contradicted. Louis is nine, which is younger than Chloé at twelve. (b) Not supported. The text says Paul plays football, and Louis préfère les jeux vidéo. Nothing says Louis plays football.
12. How many years older is Paul than Louis? Show which words give the evidence.
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7 years. The evidence is Paul … a seize ans and Louis … a neuf ans. 16 − 9 = 7. Check: 9 + 7 = 16.
If you got these wrong
| What went wrong | Likely cause | Go to |
|---|---|---|
| Right place or time, but you copied extra words (questions 1 to 5) | Not stopping at the end of the detail | Find an explicit detail without copying an irrelevant sentence |
| You guessed an unknown word wrongly (questions 6 to 8) | Skipping the clues, or trusting a look-alike | Use context to infer a plausible unfamiliar word |
| You answered with a fact when asked for a view, or the reverse (questions 9 and 10) | Not sorting signal words and speakers | Separate an opinion from a stated detail |
| You accepted a claim that the text only suggests (questions 11 and 12) | Not checking each part against a line | Check whether evidence supports a reading response |
Mixed errors are normal at this stage. Redo the questions from your weakest block after a day, and see if the underline habit has stuck.
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