Une écrivaine francophone: perfect tense verbs like ouvrir, écrire & traduire.

French

This unit focuses on communicating in the perfect tense, revisiting regular and irregular past participle formation, verbs with être and past participle agreement. Pupils will meet the past participles of verbs like ouvrir, écrire and traduire, and revisit perfect tense questions and negation.   

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Which verbs form their past participle like 'ouvrir', 'traduire' and 'écrire'?

Match the French word to its grammatical function.

Find the English translations for these infinitives.

Identify the correct past participle to complete the phrase: Hier, nous avons fait du sport puis nous sommes __________ à la bibliothèque.

Translate 'les' in the following commands: 'écris-les!' and 'suis-les!'

Complete the following sentence: Hier, nous avons __________ de la lecture. (Yesterday we read.)

Verbs expressing a change of state, location or condition use which auxiliary verb to form the perfect tense?

Match together the two halves of each broken phrase.

The SSCs [é], [i], [u], [SFC] and [SFe] are all pronounced in regular ...

Match together the verb 'suivre' (to follow) in the present tense.

Which of the following verbs use 'être' as the auxiliary verb?

Translate the following: he became a writer because he loves reading

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Une écrivaine francophone: perfect tense verbs like ouvrir, écrire & traduire.

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.