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Year 8 · Languages · Free time · Lesson 2

The perfect tense with avoir (French)

The French perfect tense (passé composé) with avoir: the present of avoir, -er past participles, negatives, past time phrases and opinions with c'était.

Whiteboard video lesson: The perfect tense with avoir (French)

19-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

  • Explain when to use the perfect tense
  • Conjugate avoir
  • Form -er past participles
  • Make perfect tense negatives
  • Use past time phrases and c'était

The method

  1. Subject.
  2. Part of avoir.
  3. Past participle.
  4. Time phrase and opinion.

Key words: passé composé, avoir, past participle, joué, ne … pas, hier, c'était.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

What is the past participle of ‘jouer’?

  1. Step 1: -er → -é

Answer: joué

Question 2

What is the past participle of ‘regarder’?

  1. Step 1: -er → -é

Answer: regardé

Question 3

What is the past participle of ‘écouter’?

  1. Step 1: -er → -é

Answer: écouté