icon-background-square
New
New
Year 10
AQA

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

I can write in the perfect tense, using a range of verbs with avoir and être and with different types of past participle, to describe the past life and writings of a Francophone writer.

icon-background-square
New
New
Year 10
AQA

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

I can write in the perfect tense, using a range of verbs with avoir and être and with different types of past participle, to describe the past life and writings of a Francophone writer.

warning

These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Switch to our new teaching resources now - designed by teachers and leading subject experts, and tested in classrooms.

Lesson details

Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons

Key learning points

  1. The past participles of verbs like ouvrir become ouvert e.g. je découvre in the perfect tense becomes j'ai découvert.
  2. The past participles of verbs like traduire become traduit e.g. tu détruis in the perfect tense becomes tu as détruit.
  3. The past participles of verbs like écrire become écrit e.g. elle décrit becomes in the perfect tense elle a décrit.
  4. Past participles used with être must agree in gender and number with the subject of the verb.

Keywords

  • Auxiliary verb - a form of ‘avoir’ or ‘être’ used to form the perfect tense

  • Past participle agreement - when the past participle matches the subject in gender and number

Common misconception

Only irregular verbs such as 'faire' and 'avoir' have unusual past participles.

Verbs like 'ouvrir', 'traduire' and 'écrire' form their past participles differently to regular IR and RE verbs and should be seen as different types of verb when learning verb patterns.

For the speaking activity at the end of the lesson, students may prefer to make short notes of their ideas and keep them to hand as prompts.
speech-bubble
Teacher tip
equipment-required

Equipment

copyright

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2025), licensed on
Open Government Licence version 3.0
except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Lesson video

Loading...

Some of our videos, including non-English language videos, do not have captions.

6 Questions

Q1.
Verbs expressing a change of state, location or condition use which auxiliary verb to form the perfect tense?
Correct Answer: être
Q2.
Match together the two halves of each broken phrase.
Correct Answer:Elle,est allée à la bibliothèque.
tick

est allée à la bibliothèque.

Correct Answer:Il,a visité la Tour Eiffel.
tick

a visité la Tour Eiffel.

Correct Answer:Nous,avons fait le tour du musée.
tick

avons fait le tour du musée.

Correct Answer:Vous,êtes venues hier.
tick

êtes venues hier.

Correct Answer:Ils,sont descendus la rue.
tick

sont descendus la rue.

Correct Answer:Elles ,ont regardé un match de foot.
tick

ont regardé un match de foot.

Q3.
The SSCs [é], [i], [u], [SFC] and [SFe] are all pronounced in regular ...
Correct Answer: past participles, past participle, endings
Q4.
Match together the verb 'suivre' (to follow) in the present tense.
Correct Answer:je,suis
tick

suis

Correct Answer:tu,suis
tick

suis

Correct Answer:il/elle/on,suit
tick

suit

Correct Answer:nous,suivons
tick

suivons

Correct Answer:vous,suivez
tick

suivez

Correct Answer:ils/elles,suivent
tick

suivent

Q5.
Which of the following verbs use 'être' as the auxiliary verb?
Correct answer: devenir
Correct answer: mourir
danser
Correct answer: partir
parler
Q6.
Translate the following: he became a writer because he loves reading
1 - il
2 - est
3 - devenu
4 - écrivain
5 - parce qu'il
6 - aime
7 - la lecture

6 Questions

Q1.
Which verbs form their past participle like 'ouvrir', 'traduire' and 'écrire'?
finir, vendre, prendre
Correct answer: découvrir, détruire, décrire
venir, entendre, suspendre
Q2.
Match the French word to its grammatical function.
Correct Answer:le chapitre,noun
tick

noun

Correct Answer:petit,adjective
tick

adjective

Correct Answer:raconter,infinitive
tick

infinitive

Correct Answer:raconté,past participle
tick

past participle

Correct Answer:beaucoup,adverb
tick

adverb

Correct Answer:sur,preposition
tick

preposition

Q3.
Find the English translations for these infinitives.
Correct Answer:traiter,to treat, handle, to deal with
tick

to treat, handle, to deal with

Correct Answer:mourir,to die, dying
tick

to die, dying

Correct Answer:inscrire,to write down, writing down
tick

to write down, writing down

Correct Answer:détruire,to destroy, destroying
tick

to destroy, destroying

Correct Answer:admettre,to admit, to confess
tick

to admit, to confess

Correct Answer:surprendre,to surprise, surprising
tick

to surprise, surprising

Q4.
Identify the correct past participle to complete the phrase: Hier, nous avons fait du sport puis nous sommes __________ à la bibliothèque.
Correct answer: allés
allé
Correct answer: allées
allée
Q5.
Translate 'les' in the following commands: 'écris-les!' and 'suis-les!'
Correct Answer: them
Q6.
Complete the following sentence: Hier, nous avons __________ de la lecture. (Yesterday we read.)
Correct Answer: fait

Additional material

Download additional material