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🧩 Language: the fast marks

💰 6 marks (Sciences, Technique) · 10 (Lettres, Sport) ⏱️ about 20 minutes Each answer is 0.5. Never leave a blank.

The right state of mind

These are the easiest marks on the paper

The Language part is short and has no surprises. It is always 2 or 3 small exercises on new short texts (never the reading text). Each answer is worth 0.5. Get the method right tonight, and tomorrow you collect these marks fast.

Never leave a blank. An empty blank is a sure 0.5 lost. Even a guess based on grammar can score. Fill in everything.
Capital letters. If your word starts a sentence, give it a capital letter. You can lose the mark for a small letter at the start, even when the word is right.

Exercise A, the word box

Fill the gaps using words from a box

You get a short text with gaps and a box of words, for example 7 gaps and 9 words. There are always 2 extra words you will not use.

  1. Read the whole sentence around the gap. Meaning first.
  2. Ask what kind of word the gap needs: a noun, a verb, a linking word? That removes half the box.
  3. Put in the best word, then cross it off the box. The words left over are the extra ones.
  4. Capital letter at the start of a sentence. Copy the spelling exactly.
Real Lettres 2025 box: chronic, as, commitments, hardly, critical, empowered, with, alleviate, challenges. Seven go in, two stay out. REAL BAC

Quick check. "Environmental education can help ______ climate anxiety." (you need a verb that means "reduce")

Exercise B, tense and form

Put the word in the right tense or form

You get 6 or 7 words in brackets. Some are verbs to put in the right tense. Some are words to change into a noun, adjective, or adverb.

Tip for tense. Look for the time word. "since" and "for" go with the present perfect. "ago" and "last" go with the past simple. "by the time" goes with the past perfect. "if … would" is a conditional.
Tip for form. After "a, an, the" you usually need a noun. Before a noun you need an adjective. To describe a verb you need an adverb (often ending in "ly").
French trap. The passé composé is not always the present perfect. "I saw him yesterday" is past simple, not "I have seen him yesterday." See Grammar.

Quick check. Change each word into the right form (all from Lettres 2025):

young (adventure) ______ travellers
a year of self (explore) ______
I (distinct) ______ remember that day

Exercise C, circle the right option

Choose between 2 or 3 options inside a text

You read a text with choices in brackets. Usually they test prepositions, linking words, or word partners.

Tip. Say each option in your head with the words around it. The right one sounds correct and keeps the meaning. Cross out the one that breaks the grammar.
Preposition trap. Trust English, not French or Arabic: "depend on" (not "of"), "glued to", "interested in", "good at", "on a flight", "behind schedule".
Real Lettres 2025: "my eyes were glued ____ the screen."

⭐ Test yourself: matching

Match the time word to its tense

Pick the tense that goes with each time word. Then press Check.
since 2010 / for five years
two years ago / last week
by the time we arrived

Language in one line

Read the sentence, decide the kind of word, use the time words, trust English over French, use capital letters at the start, and fill every blank. The rules behind the tenses and word building are in Grammar.