Can this help with a French oral exam or presentation?

Yes. You can rehearse a prepared presentation, get feedback on pronunciation and fluency, and practise answering follow-up questions in French. Evelyn is not affiliated with any exam board and cannot tell you what will be on your specific test, but the speaking practice itself is the same skill.

My child can conjugate verbs on paper but freezes when asked to speak. Does this address that?

That gap is common when most class time goes to written exercises. Voice sessions put the pressure on production — answering in real time, with recovery strategies when a word is missing — and Evelyn can slow the pace or supply prompts at first, then reduce them.

What is actually different between French II and French III?

French II typically consolidates the past tenses, object pronouns and comparative forms. French III adds the futur simple and conditionnel, si clauses, relative pronouns, and a first pass at the subjunctive, with longer reading and writing tasks. Sessions can be targeted at either.

Will pronunciation and accent be corrected?

Yes — nasal vowels, the u vs. ou distinction, the French r, silent final consonants and liaison all come up in spoken practice, and you can drill a single sound repeatedly if it is causing trouble.

We use a specific textbook. Can sessions follow it?

Tell Evelyn the book and chapter and the session can work through that grammar point and vocabulary set. You can also read a passage or exercise aloud and work through it together.

French I–III

High School (9-10) · World Languages

One-on-one voice practice in French for students in the first three years of high school French, roughly from bonjour and être/avoir through the passé composé, the future and conditional, and an introduction to the subjunctive. Sessions are spoken, so you get repetitions of the sounds that give English speakers trouble — the nasal vowels in bon, bien and blanc, the French r, the silent final consonants, and the liaison in les_amis — alongside grammar explanations in English when you need them. Work can follow your textbook's chapter sequence (Bien dit!, D'accord, T'es branché?) or target a specific weak spot like knowing when to use imparfait.

Start a session on French I–III

What this covers

Present-tense conjugation of -er, -ir and -re verbs plus the high-frequency irregulars (être, avoir, aller, faire, prendre, pouvoir, vouloir, devoir) and the aller + infinitive near future
Passé composé: choosing avoir or être, forming past participles, agreement with être subjects and preceding direct objects, and contrasting it with the imparfait for description, habit and interrupted actions
Articles and gender: le/la/les vs. un/une/des vs. the partitive du/de la/des, and the shift to de after a negative or an expression of quantity
Adjective agreement and placement, including the BAGS/BANGS adjectives that precede the noun and irregular forms like beau/bel/belle and vieux/vieil
Object pronouns le/la/les, lui/leur, y and en — their order before the verb and their position with infinitives and in the passé composé
Third-year material: futur simple, conditionnel, si clauses, relative pronouns qui/que/dont, and the present subjunctive after il faut que and expressions of emotion and doubt
Speaking and listening practice: question forms (est-ce que, inversion, intonation), everyday exchanges, and short spoken narrations about your weekend, family or school day

Where learners get stuck

Treating passé composé and imparfait as interchangeable past tenses: English has one simple past, so 'I played' maps onto both j'ai joué and je jouais. Students learn the forms fine and then guess at the choice. It helps to stop translating and instead ask what the sentence is doing: reporting a completed event, or setting a scene, describing a state, or saying what used to happen.
Using j'ai for être verbs, and forgetting participle agreement: Avoir is taught first and covers most verbs, so aller, venir, partir, sortir, rester and the reflexives get swept into the same pattern. Mnemonics like DR MRS VANDERTRAMP help with the list but not with the follow-on step — that elle est allée and nous sommes parties need an agreeing ending.
Saying je mange le pain when you mean some bread: English drops the article entirely ('I eat bread'), so students either omit it or default to the definite article they learned first. French requires a partitive here, and it flips to de in the negative — je ne mange pas de pain — which feels arbitrary until you practise the two together.
Placing object pronouns after the verb, English-style: 'I see him' becomes je le vois, not je vois le. Word order that has been automatic in English for a decade has to be consciously overridden, and it gets harder once negation or a compound tense wraps around the pronoun: je ne l'ai pas vu.

What a session looks like

You talk with Evelyn by voice for the length of the session. A typical hour might open with a few minutes of unscripted French conversation at your level, move to whatever you flagged — a chapter quiz on the partitive, a graded composition that came back with agreement errors, an oral presentation you have to deliver next week — and finish with drilled repetitions of the specific forms that were shaky. Evelyn switches to English to explain a rule and back to French to practise it. If you read a passage aloud or attempt a sentence, you get feedback on pronunciation and on whether the grammar landed.

Helpful to know first

For French I: no prior French. Knowing what a verb, subject and noun are in English makes the first weeks smoother.
For French II: the present tense of regular verbs and the common irregulars, basic gender and adjective agreement, and forming questions.
For French III: comfortable use of passé composé and imparfait, the future with aller, and reflexive verbs.
A quiet space with a working microphone, plus your textbook, vocabulary list or worksheet if you want to work from it.

Questions

Can this help with a French oral exam or presentation?: Yes. You can rehearse a prepared presentation, get feedback on pronunciation and fluency, and practise answering follow-up questions in French. Evelyn is not affiliated with any exam board and cannot tell you what will be on your specific test, but the speaking practice itself is the same skill.
My child can conjugate verbs on paper but freezes when asked to speak. Does this address that?: That gap is common when most class time goes to written exercises. Voice sessions put the pressure on production — answering in real time, with recovery strategies when a word is missing — and Evelyn can slow the pace or supply prompts at first, then reduce them.
What is actually different between French II and French III?: French II typically consolidates the past tenses, object pronouns and comparative forms. French III adds the futur simple and conditionnel, si clauses, relative pronouns, and a first pass at the subjunctive, with longer reading and writing tasks. Sessions can be targeted at either.
Will pronunciation and accent be corrected?: Yes — nasal vowels, the u vs. ou distinction, the French r, silent final consonants and liaison all come up in spoken practice, and you can drill a single sound repeatedly if it is causing trouble.
We use a specific textbook. Can sessions follow it?: Tell Evelyn the book and chapter and the session can work through that grammar point and vocabulary set. You can also read a passage or exercise aloud and work through it together.